Need some help from oldtimers or radio guys

[hazard-maine]

so i my great uncle gave me this radio today its and panasonic mulitband, and i have no idea how to use it besides fm radio

 

[RoadRanger]

that's a neat old radio, i have one sorta like it, but not exactly the same.

i can tell you the "PB high" probibly has a weather band station (the "wb" in the rectangle). i think "PB" might stand for public bullitin? not sure though.

then the "MB & SW" could possibly be a manual police / CB scanner. i'm not sure on that though, but i know mine's got a feature like that, and the numbers on youre's look like they could be CB channels?

 

[hazard-maine]

mine has fm, pb high, pb low, am, mb, sw

 

[RoadRanger]

here's a pic of the one i've got, the differant selections on the one i've got are FM, AM, SW, VHF hi (with weather band) VHF lo, and UHF. if i remember, the SW is basically a police scanner that you manually tune.

 

[hazard-maine]

sweet! i have a police scanner!

 

[RoadRanger]

i don't know about you, but i can listen to the park ranger chatter from my house, about 5 - 10 miles up the mountian from the park land where they are

the weather band is good too for if you're power goes out. assuming youre's is battery powered like mine.

 

[hazard-maine]

mine is battery and ac powered, and the game wardens and ranger station are 3 miles away from me

 

[RoadRanger]

nice, i've got an AC adapter for mine somewhere too. you could probibly pick up some chatter if you can figure out what station they use.

 

[hazard-maine]

mine is built in to it, and ive had no luck picking anything up

 

[RoadRanger]

any radio stations work?

 

[hazard-maine]

fm works, and on pb high all i get is one station with a guy talking about wwii ships

 

[ob269]

Lol, that's kinda random the ww2 ships..

 

[hazard-maine]

Yeah but that public radio for you