Excerpts from Warwick Beacon when brother Ray worked for the Warwick Police Dept. as their radio technician

Warwick Beacon Thursday , December 10th, 1987 According to Raymond Ruggieri, radio technician for the city, the police will also have three other frequencies Two will be/published as soon as they are assigned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), while the other wil) remain unpublished as a classified channel for investigations and certain police business Some equipment on site patch room with special air conditioning and anti static carpets, and it's got to be all re wired Hopefully by mid January the new system will be in service The switch over, he said, should not pose a problem for owners of new programmable scanner... Warwick Beacon WarwickRhode IslandThursday , December 10th, 1987 Page : 1 Warwick Beacon Tuesday , February 16th, 1988 radio technician Raymond Ruggieri said part of the delay in installing this equipment was caused by the weather _ _ We hope to be using the new frequencies in about two weeks, he said But we'll be using them along with' the old frequences because it will take a while to replace all the radios in the patrol cars And this simulcast will go on for about three weeks, then we'll be broadcasting totally on the new frequendes The police department's new main UHF frequency will be453 675 A second new frequency will be 453 475 According to Castiglioni, this second channel will be used for intra city... Warwick Beacon WarwickRhode IslandTuesday , February 16th, 1988 Page : 10