Hi! A couple questions from a newbie.

[yazman]

Ok, so I'm pretty new to scanning and such. My dad had an old motorola handheld we used at car races, and that was a blast. A year or 2 ago my uncle gave me an old 16-channel bearcat that I messed with until it broke. Anyway, I recently bought an old Radioshack/Realistic Pro-2022 off ebay. It's older, but it works fine.

Now I am trying to listen to the local DPS radio system. They use an EDACS TRS for their radios, and I have a conventional scanner. I know how to listen to a Trunked system on a conventional scanner, but the EDACS system has 5 beeps at the end of each transmission when the radio is keyed off.

I've done some research, and I have heard that there are devices you can get which identify the beeps and return it to conventional scanning when it detects them, called GE-wizz or something of the sort. Now I haven't the foggiest idea where to find/how to make a device like this, I've done some searching on GE-wizz, but so far no luck.

I know the easiest thing would be to just buy a trunktracking scanner capable of following an EDACS system, but I'm a college student and can't really afford something like that right now. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[dracer777]

Wirelessly posted (MOT-QA30/00.72 UP.Browser/7.2.7.5.610 (GUI) MMP/2.0)

I am sure someone more knowledgable will probably be able to give you an answer other than what I'm going to give you, however, you can get a trunktracking scanner for fairly cheap..... probably around $200 or less. Now, I'm not sure about any devices that you are talking about, but am almost certain someone will be able to guide you in the correct direction.

[gmclam]

Heck there are a lot of used trunk tracking scanners out there for less than $100. Since you are doing EDACS, you do not need a scanner that can handle rebanding. And a lot of people are getting rid of otherwise perfectly good scanners because their area rebanded.

Look near the end here for some currently on eBay, and also here for scanners on this site.

[holmdt]

If all you need is EDACS I have a hand held that I got from GRE (GRE America, Inc. - grecom scanner receiver, lcd modules, spread spectrum radio, wireless bridge, scanner antenna, scanner pre-amps.) for about $200 and they will program 1 county free.

[scanner_nanner]

Sometimes you can find a trunking scanner at the pawnshops for a pretty good price.