[BC] Re: MW Police Radio

[Harold Hallikainen]

> The "ex-band" encompasses part of the old "police band".
>
> I gather that this was one-way (simplex) with return calls being
> effected from a "police call box".
>
> Even as late as the 1960s, there was a tower at the West Los Angeles
> regional police station, next to the county superior courthouse, and
> across from the WLA regional library, and which broadcast in the
> police band.
>
> This was made famous, or infamous, in the film-noir "Mildred Pierce",
> where they identified the (police) station by its KMA-number during
> calls to murder scenes which were supposedly in Malibu.
>
> I strongly suspect this "station" was inactive after the 1950s,
> although the tower remained for quite a while thereafter.

When in elementary school in the San Francisco east bay area, I used to
listen to the LAPD radio. I was probably in third or fourth grade (maybe
late 1950s). I remember hearing a police call about skateboarders, I
think.

This issue
(http://sujan.hallikainen.org/BroadcastHistory/uploads/RcaBroadcastNewsOct1931.pdf
) of RCA Broadcast News from 1931 has an article on Police Alarm Broadcast
Equipment.

Harold


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