bigbuck52

[bigbuck52]

Is there a scanner out there for AWIN? I have a pro 135 which only takes 6 numbers for frequency.

[poppafred]

Anything that will receive P25 digital.

I have a RS Pro 197 and a GRE 500. I listen to AWIN on both of them almost constantly, only break is while sleeping but they are both on and listening even then.

[bigbuck52]

Popafred, thanks for the info- guess I need to cough up the cash and get a new scanner. lol

[safetyobc]

My personal favorites is the PSR-800 and BCD396T. Any of the following will work for you.

BCD996XT - The RadioReference Wiki

BCD996T - The RadioReference Wiki

BCD396XT - The RadioReference Wiki

BCD396T - The RadioReference Wiki

HomePatrol-1 - The RadioReference Wiki

PSR-500 - The RadioReference Wiki

PSR-600 - The RadioReference Wiki

PSR-800 - The RadioReference Wiki

Pro-106 - The RadioReference Wiki

Pro-197 - The RadioReference Wiki

[JohnDavid]

Has anyone ever tried buying the actual motorola spectra that ASP uses and have the freqs put in? Receiving only of course.. I just figured that would sound a lot better and get a lot better quality. My trunk tracker won't pick up everything that comes across a channel like a real radio will. Practical? Possible?

[milf]

To hear a P-25 system using an P-25 radio, the radio MUST affiliate with the system. Any UNATHORIZED radio affiliating on the system will be killed remotely. In other words, it will be made a paperweight with a few keypresses. On the older Type II systems you could get away with using an mobile or HT with TX disabled. Not on an P-25 system. So spending the $3,000.00 or more on an HT or mobile would be a waste. Spend the $100.00 to $500.00 on a digital scanner. Any model from the RS PRO-96/2096 up works fine on almost all the AWIN sites. For the few current 700 MHz sites you will need one of the models in the generation after the 96 series.

[k5rpd]

Not necessarily true... You can use a Motorola radio (or any P25 capable for that matter) to scan the frequencies of the voice channels at the sites you are interested in- WITHOUT affiliation of any kind. It just potentially won't track a single talkgroup like being affiliated will allow you to do. There are extensive discussions of this over at the batlabs forums. Just takes some research and programming know-how. You'll have to register at the batlabs forums to find the info- search for "ASTRO25 scanning"

[milf]

And again, you will still pay 3K plus for a radio. If you don't know the ins and outs of programming it, you will just have an expensive brick. If anyone out there has that kind of bucks to toss around, send some my way. I don't need 3K plus... Just a couple of hundred for a new digiscanner, and new HD for the now paperweight laptop LOL!

[iamhere300]

Not anywhere near 3k. You can buy P25, trunking radios for street cost of $1250.00 all day long. That still leaves the dealer a fair profit. Many dealers are selling these.