Some how I ended up at the WI state fair today. Lots to see.
Radioshack Pro-95 Radio Scanner
I have had a Radioshack Pro-95 handheld radio scanner for years now. In all this time, it has never been properly programmed. I have had some channels in it, but not anything really all that useful. I have ended up using it mostly for a weather radio and CB channel scanner. I do use it enough to justify the scanner antenna I have on my truck.
Last night, we had a trio of tornadoes blow through the area. Luckily, none touched down. When my cell let me know that there was bad weather in the area, I ran out to my truck and grabbed the scanner. I used it to listen to the weather.
Well, tonight, I sat down and made an effort at figuring out how to program this thing. I now have the local Elgin Motorola Trunked municipal, police, and fire radio frequencies in it. The cool thing is that it works!
Reading online, the radio got good reviews, the manual got terrible reviews. So I don’t feel bad about not figuring it out in the past.
Now I am going to have to get a programming cable for it. I don’t think I want to spend anymore time fighting with programming it using the radio itself. I want to use my keyboard!
I have the City’s trunked system in the radio, I also want to put in the local utilities – phone, cable, railroad, but don’t know how to. Gah! It can’t be this hard. Maybe I need to curl up with the manual and read it again. NOT!
If you know of any good Elgin area radio frequencies to listen in on, let me know!
Passing on
The baby kitten didn’t make the night. I found the two other kittens curled up next to it this morning – like they where mourning.
News about my folks
Well, seeing that mom has posted about it, I can’t be the one to jynx things.
Yep, it’s the new house. Looks like my folks found a place they like on Loveless Lake a few miles from the old house. I made this model from the one photo that mom posted on her blog. I have no idea what the back and far side of the house looks like.
Kitten Update, good news and bad
I came home for lunch today, and one of the kittens used the litter box I put out for them. I was quite excited! No more wet spots on my carpet.
I fed the big cats – they like the new canned food I got for them. I also fed the little ones. I mixed up a batch of formula and put it down for them. I have done this for a few days now, but they hadn’t really figured it out until today.
The kittens are getting so big! They just love to play! Here is the fat one viciously attacking the dishwasher. The skinny one and the fat one are always tussling with each other. During lunch, the brown one took off running from the kitchen all the way to my bedroom. I guess it didn’t want to be ganged up on by the two orange ones.
So, the skinny one found the food dish.
The sad news is when I came home from work tonight, the brown kitten is paralyzed. I am not sure why. It was laying on the floor of the computer room – I had left the door open when I went back to work after lunch. My best guest is that Sister was trying to ‘hide’ her kittens, and hauled this kitten up on top of my stack of boxes or something, and it fell down and didn’t land on it’s feet. It has no control of it’s back legs, and it appears to have no control of it’s bladder. It could also be something that the fleas gave it, or reaction to the poisons I have been using to get rid of the fleas. I am really not sure. It doesn’t seem to be in any pain.
I guess I will see what the story is in the morning.