07 JAN 03 Changed contact e-mail addresses. Old ones were dead. I forgot about that. (Oops!) Updated Trunking subpage to reflect current status of things. Renamed to Trunking & Digital Communications. Added links to outside sources on the new digital scanners Uniden is making available. Fixed broken link to Fla. scanner law. Uniden finally made their first-generation digital scanners available to the public beginning of the month. People around the country have already bought some and are showering newsgroups with reports of their usage. They're EXPENSIVE. About $330 to $370 for either the handheld OR the base unit. PLUS, both require the add-on Digital Accessory Card, which is another $300, itself. Total cost nearly $700...just for the ability to hear digital communications. In preparation for the onslaught of questions that the new scanners will bring once people start purchasing them here, I've sent e-mails to GPD and ASO requesting information on their own channel assignments, talkgroup codes, etc., so that I can update these pages with the info for users. 12 NOV 01 Changed name of page, slightly, to better reflect current aims of page. I don't need to cover the whole of Northern Fla. since there are plenty of pages out there now, and I'm not one for duping information on an already crowded web. Also means less for me to have to keep up with. So, the new name for this site now becomes the "North Central Florida Area Scannist's Page." I've decided I'm no longer going to mention anything on this page every time I add a new link in a links page. From now on, I'll place the date the link was added to the end of the link, itself, on the links page. Still waiting on someone to come out with a digital capable scanner. There are some problems with that, as well. Even if they come out with digital capable scanners, how difficult will it be for people to get ahold of the keys? And is Motorola, et al, going to be a stinker about it? If so, there's no reason to update this page anymore, or to even bother with digital and/or trunking tutorials, since it won't matter, anymore. Will have to wait and see how things go. 03 JUN 01 Page being pretty long, I broke up the various sections into separate subpages. 06 JAN 01 Finally to a point where I can at least function after my cat's death, updated this page. 05 NOV 00 Added statement under GPD/UPD frequency links, and to Local Scanning News page, stating GPD/UPDs apparent move to the new digital frequencies - comms in old freqs have largely disappeared. 27 OCT 00 Gainesville Sun publishes article advising "police, fire monitoring off-limits to media." A few people (including me) mistake this to mean local government is attempting to enforce a new, across-the-board, anti-monitoring law. This is not the actual case, but public service agencies are moving to new digital communications system and 800 MHz freqs. This has the same EFFECT though, since no scanners yet exist which can track digital trunking comms. 18 OCT 00 Raisen (my cat) died out of the blue, behind me on the bed (always near me). 7 years old. I'm very upset and not much interested in my own hobbies or in updating any web pages for a while. She was my best friend. This house is empty without her. Everywhere I turn is a reminder of her. Life seems to be passing her by and she's missing it. This is not fair. This wasn't supposed to happen to her yet. All the things she was, all the things she knew, all the special things about her, all the things I taught her growing up that made her different from all the other cats, our special relationship, her unusually high intelligence...gone...just like that. All the efforts I went through to protect her... I looked forward to her being there to come home to every day. I still expect her greeting at the door, or the want for water at the sink, or to be sleeping beside me on the floor near the computer chair, or to be purring on my lap, or to jump on my bed and then upon my chest to sleep at night. Where is she? Then I see the urn. Then I see her toys still lying about here and there. 12 OCT 00 Added link to Scanner Frequencies in Central California. Added link to U.K. Scanner Frequencies. 23 AUG 00 Added link to AMC Wireless on Links/Resources page. 17 AUG 00 Updated link to East Central Fla. Scanner Page. 30 JUL 00 Added Suwannee Co. and surrounding area frequencies. 20 JUN 00 Updated links to ASO, GPD, and UPD to reflect new web pages. 04 JUN 00 Corrected typo in URL to Scanner Frequencies for the Fort Walton Beach Area site. Removed dead links to Pete Hedeen's Pensacola Area Scanner Frequencies. 21 MAY 00 Added link to North Jersey Railscan. 08 MAY 00 Added link to The Blair County Frequency Guide. 03 MAY 00 Added link to www.scannerpage.com. 01 MAR 00 Added new trunking-related sub-page in preparation for trunking switch which is supposed to happen ... sometime. Moved Scanner News to separate sub-page. Updated info about 2/26 brush fire near Buck Bay. 26 FEB 00 Added info to News about Buck Bay brushfire. 25 FEB 00 Updated freqs for Jacksonville area. Thanks to Wm. S. Moore for the info. 22 FEB 00 Created new sub-page for ham radio-related links. Finally got smart and added lots "Back To INDEX" pointers to the main front page as a courtesy to help make navigation a little easier for users. Added section for space shuttle listening, and a link to Dave Ransom's webpage. Added a number of further Northern Fla. area web page links. Added info for Central Fla. Listerner's Group and FloridaScan mailing lists to mailing lists page. Removed links to Scanning-related Clubs and to Scanning-related Electronic BBSes by KC5KTO as the links seem to have disappeared. Added some freqs for Nassau County area thanks to William S. Moore. 16 FEB 00 Added TLH AE4S repeater to ham freqs list. 13 FEB 00 Added link to Top 50 Scanner Sites. Added link to Ultimate Scanner Sites. Added link to K4LYP Hobby Page. 12 FEB 00 Added link to Scanner Way!. 11 FEB 00 Added link to Scanning The Utilities. 28 JAN 00 Added Forestry Freqs page. Added photos of ShandsCair chopper, FHP planes and chopper to Aircraft Freqs page. Also added map of Gainesville Regl. Airport to appear on mouseover of the GRA survey photo. Added link to Florida Highway Patrol on main page. Added link to Gainesville Police Dept. on main page. Added link to University Police Dept. on main page. Added link to PoliceScanner.com to Links page. Finally noticed (and fixed) broken link to my own scanner links page. 27 JAN 00 Added local section for aircraft frequencies. Includes photos of planes and choppers, where possible. 25 JAN 00 Added link to New Jersey/NYC Freqs Page. 23 JAN 00 Added link to North American Monitoring Assn. page by Steven Lindquist. 16 JAN 00 Added link to East Central Fla. Scanner Page by John Gerstner. 27 AUG 99 Gave the site a graphics facelift. Corrected some minor formatting errors long left untouched. Corrected link to US Scanner News site to reflect the new URL. 16 MAY 99 GARS-related links changed to new URL. 07 DEC 98 Added link to WonderBoy's Home Page. 01 OCT 98 Added link to Scanning USA Magazine. 13 SEP 98 Added new information recieved regarding current GPD zones. Thanks to Michael Stewart! Added more Jacksonville area frequencies, courtesy Rick Schupp. Added more information on Jacksonville Fire frequencies, courtesy Tim Holloway. Added link to Erik's Scanner Information Page. General scanning freqs and info. Doug Ferrell/KD4MOJ's Tallahassee Freqs site moved and link updated to reflect www.tallahassee-scanner.com. Updated link to Tennessee - Sevier Co., which had changed. Removed link to the Texas area site, The Frequency Zone by Miles Barkman, since its old URL no longer works and I can't seem to find its new URL using any search engines, if there is a new URL, that is. 07 FEB 98 Added link to Washington Parrish, LA Scanner Page. 06 FEB 98 Found the link to Mike's South Florida Page and placed him back in the list again! :) 07 JAN 98 Removed link to The Safe Motorist's Guide To Speed Traps since the link no longer seems to be valid. (Thanks to David Miller for pointing this out to me.) Moved Scanner-related News section to bottom of main page and provided pointers to it from the Index so that people don't have to scroll through all that stuff before getting to the Index. 31 DEC 97 Added frequencies for Jacksonville area, courtesy William S. Moore IV. 17 DEC 97 Added information about new Florida-area scanning-related list called FLACOM-L to mailing lists page, as well as to main page. 29 NOV 97 (Minor cosmetic changes to main page.) 28 NOV 97 Added this What's New! page. Added the NetMinder service to the main page. 03 NOV 97 (Minor cosmetic changes to main page.)