Rank: Realistic Patrolman Mini 12-622 AM Police Band Radio Review
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2024
- The Realistic Patrolman Mini is a great classic AM Police Band Radio that helps round out that cool portable collection. The radio was donated to the channel by Chuck. A great supporter of this channel. If you would like to send a radio, contact me on UA-cam, Instagram or Twitter's messaging service. Thank you!
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Features I like about this radio:
Cool factor! Serious vintage style.
Twin tuners!
Aluminum speaker grill, reminding me of my late 60s Sony radio.
AM is sensitive.
WB is active!
Color scheme. love the silver on grey.
Overall an awesome portable classic that you can show off next to your other cool retro radios. This one rocks! Love it.
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OMG! That is the radio that got me started in monitoring the public service band back in the 1970s!
I was a teen and went to a friend's apartment in NYC where I grew up. He had a Patrolman portable radio, mutliband. We are tuning around on the shortwave band and then he says: "You want to listen to the NYPD?" I'm like WHAT? Are you kidding me? We can listen to the cops? He's like "Yep and the fire dept. too!" So, back in those days, both the NYPD and the FDNY were on VHF high. Well, needless to say, I was HOOKED!
However, I could not afford the mutliband rig he had, but here was an AM/VHF-FM version, the Patrolman Mini and I snapped it up! In my neighborhood, the Upper West Side of Manhattan, back in the early 1970s, it was a dicey area then with a LOT of police, fire and EMT activity, not the gentrified area that it has become now. So I was glued to the radio as soon as I got home! If I could have listened during school, I would have, but I was a borderline student as it was, so...
Thanks so much to the viewer that sent that rig in and if he wants to sell it, let me know! I'm collecting all the radios I had as a youth these days, as I grow older.
Awesome history there, I'm actually collecting these Patrolman series as well, I have a few reviewed. Patrolman SW-60 ua-cam.com/video/QkDvc6pS0o4/v-deo.html , and a Patrolman-3 ua-cam.com/video/NiWRKTKQ3ZI/v-deo.html .
I had one of these when I was a kid. Used to listen to the police on 155.130 MHz. Couldn't get the fire dept. because they were on 460.600 MHz. Then one Christmas I got an 8 channel Bearcat scanner with the crystals for police and fire, plus a few surrounding cities police crystals. There was just something magical about the little red lights moving from left to right in sequence. Radio Shack used to sell a frequency guide for your part of the country. Good memories.
Loved the Realistic name back in the day! My Dad always had either Realistic or Panasonic branded equipment back when I was a kid. It was all he'd buy lol.
Cool, love your new Panasonic vid! This Realistic is great. My father loved his Sonys and my Grandfather loved his GEs.
todderbert can't go wrong with Sony or GE haha, good stuff!
I had the 'VHF air band' version of this radio in the early 70s. I used to carry it with me when I delivered the long-extinct Washington (DC) Star on my paper route. That's a very nice and clean example you have there!
Thanks, it is a fun radio.
I also had the Jetstream Mini as it was called.
Loved it.
If you take this radio near a navigable waterway or in a coastal area, you can hear VHF Marine traffic still. I thought about getting something like this for my fishing gear...
On VHF 156 to 163mhz is the Marine Band
At around 148 on the VHF dial is the 2-Meter ham band...it's a busy band, so you might pick up some stuff there now and then . :-) Thanks for sharing... that is an awesome little set... I remember them new in the catalogs and loved to dream about getting stuff like that, and eventually did get some dream-stuff in the future, sometimes years later. :-)
Its fun getting the dream stuff. Makes you whole. I'll try for that 2-meter band.
Definitely. :-)
Wjr Detroit. Mich. Used to listen to J. ROBERTS. NIGHT FLIGHT. And later night flight 76. USED TO LISTEN TO WJR Until THE DEMS SOLD OFF THE SPECTRUM . And wjr at night covered 33 states if the wind was right. DE KV4LI/Kbok 9017 73
I knew it existed. These came out when I was a young guy. I always wanted this one especially! This was AROUND the days of Bearcat scanners!
So cool! Chuck was generous to donate the matching Jetstream Mini also, that one needs some work, but is awesome too! imgur.com/a/IvSGW
My first monitor in 1974. I don't recall the am much the VHF was pretty deaf
Wow, I'm glad the AM section is doing so well at your location. It's not really highly selective, two strong stations 20 kHz apart might drown out a weaker one in between them. Still very impressive for its age. On VHF, I'm very near barge and railroad operations, so I heard some of that action on it. It receives your WX station better than it did mine - because of the extreme microwave interference I get here. You're lucky to be away from that! What could be more fun than surfing AM or FM on a vintage transistor radio? :-)
Thanks Chuck, your radio is fantastic! A great donation, and am pleased to own it.
I just found this in an of my fathers, I'm going to finish watching your video what is this?
very cool radio/review. I picked one of these up on ebay for 5 bucks last week. mine must be a newer model. the knobs and face a slightly different. 73 and happy dxing
Thank you. Sounds like you got a great deal! Anything working and a Realistic for $5 is awesome.
Try the VHF band when the weather becomes severe. Not only will you get the NOAA weather station, but ham radio storm spitters.
Great to know. Keep this little guy handy.
Could it be that it is not shielded shielded properly the way contemporary styled radios are and it is picking up a lot of background electro magnetic radation that did not exist back in its day.
yeah, it was definitely me touching the FM antenna that was causing the popping sound on the AM band
todderbert
Well its a good find on your part.
yes, a great donation by Chuck...love this radio.
todderbert
Thank you keep up the good work.
Your Welcome :)
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