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Now fortunately there were ways to program the radio to basically force them to listen to the important tower sites you had to listen to so you never miss anything. And like I said at the height of it, I had about 40 between scanners and actual Motorola radios. The scanners were okay but they didn't have good front ends compared to a true radio. Whereas a true radio, it worked. It worked miles outside of the city which was important because if something was going on way north of the city, I still wanted to know what was happening downtown because even though there's a big fire, you know, 50 kilometers from downtown, if something major happens downtown, I need to know about it, right? So that's where the Motorola's were very important. Their sensitivity and selectivity was excellent. But I couldn't, you know, it would be impossible to find 40 spectras or radius radios and program them all. So it was a mix of everything. The point is you could force the radios to work.