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Posted by: QuadCityImages on May 29, 2009 at 7:03AM CST

Well, I took a week off from blogging for no particular reason. Here are a couple of websites I ran across during that time.

After reading this QCTimes article about Fejervary Park's progress, or lack thereof, I was doing some surfing around the internet. I found this page, possibly run by someone from long before my time called Captain Ernie. There also seem to be some things from former Alderman and Fejervary Park defender George Nikolas. If you look around that website there are a lot of neat old postcards and pictures. In the section about Fejervary, there are many images of Mother Goose Land. My parents always told me about going there as kids, and I always thought it would have been great to pan for "gold" right here in Davenport. Somehow I don't think whatever the city comes up with will be as fun.

The other website I found over the last week is called ScanAmerica.us, and it has the audio from police radio frequencies from around the US, including some in the QC area. Check out the Iowa and Illinois pages, or almost any other state. They stream in Windows Media Player, which almost everyone should have. They can be kind of tough to follow, but its definitely cheaper than buying a police scanner. It also may include random frequencies like Bettendorf garbage collectors. I actually haven't listened to it enough to know just how good it is or isn't, but its definitely not perfect. Edit: I just discovered this site archives radio traffic, so you can listen to what went over the police radio on a certain day and time. I'll have to mess with this feature later.

I'm hoping to do a post one of these days on Bettendorf's "downtown" plans, but whenever I start writing about that particular town I seem to end up in a giant rant that I don't post. Maybe I can do better this time.

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Posted by: Chowdogz on May 29, 2009 8:47AM CST

I've been to the ScanAmerica site. It's a good way to introduce yourself to this hobby but nothing beats having your own Trunked Scanner. I have a portable Radio Shack model that has 10 bands and will hold up to 300 frequencies.
It's worthy to be aware of that the City of Davenport has what they call MTD's (at least that is what I think their calling them) in each of their squads. These allow information to be sent to any and all squads without using the public airways. So what you hear on the scanner generally isn't the whole story but it's still interesting.

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