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08-19-2009, 08:24 PM
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Hello from a NC newbie
Just found the reference site last week and got around to subscribing to this forum today. I am new to scanners, but not radios in general, I have been interested in radios for years. Been on and off the vhf, hf bands on ham radio for years, been into old boat anchor receivers. Now since Cleveland County, NC has made the big switch to P25 digital, I am looking to upgrade to a new digital scanner. All my vhf rigs and current receivers are pretty much silent now due to the switch. Been researching a couple days at the available radios and I have not made up my mind yet which one to get. The digital trunking stuff is still pretty new to me. Glad to see other NC folks on here.
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Ronnie
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08-20-2009, 12:43 AM
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Originally Posted by ke4vpn
Just found the reference site last week and got around to subscribing to this forum today. I am new to scanners, but not radios in general, I have been interested in radios for years. Been on and off the vhf, hf bands on ham radio for years, been into old boat anchor receivers. Now since Cleveland County, NC has made the big switch to P25 digital, I am looking to upgrade to a new digital scanner. All my vhf rigs and current receivers are pretty much silent now due to the switch. Been researching a couple days at the available radios and I have not made up my mind yet which one to get. The digital trunking stuff is still pretty new to me. Glad to see other NC folks on here.
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Ronnie
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08-20-2009, 03:26 PM
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Welcome aboard Ronnie, we're glad to have you !! If you have any questions please feel free to ask, and I'm sure you will find an answer. Most everyone in the NC forum is glad to help when they can.
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08-20-2009, 05:16 PM
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Welcome aboard ron!
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08-20-2009, 05:46 PM
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Welcome aboard Ronnie, we're glad to have you !! If you have any questions please feel free to ask, and I'm sure you will find an answer. Most everyone in the NC forum is glad to help when they can.
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Ditto the above. Welcome to RR.com Ronnie. Good to have you here! Feel free to read over the sticky threads at the top of the forum.
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08-22-2009, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by ke4vpn
Just found the reference site last week and got around to subscribing to this forum today. I am new to scanners, but not radios in general, I have been interested in radios for years. Been on and off the vhf, hf bands on ham radio for years, been into old boat anchor receivers. Now since Cleveland County, NC has made the big switch to P25 digital, I am looking to upgrade to a new digital scanner. All my vhf rigs and current receivers are pretty much silent now due to the switch. Been researching a couple days at the available radios and I have not made up my mind yet which one to get. The digital trunking stuff is still pretty new to me. Glad to see other NC folks on here.
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Ronnie
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In the same boat here ronnie with a pro-96 that's supposed to support the new stuff in Shelby.....nothings working for me. Maybe the pro-96 is a poor choice. |
08-22-2009, 01:04 PM
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Welcome, I use a Pro 96 and a Pro2096 with Good results for the Cleveland Co. APCO 25 system. A lot depends on your signal level for it to decode it correctly. I also have a BC796 and it does a better job but the Pro96 decodes it about 95% of the time, I use the RS 800 antenna and it helps.
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08-22-2009, 03:51 PM
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Well, im still looking at scanners and software and still have not made a choice. The Uniden's are looking good but not sure at this time. I hate to invest that much money in a new scanner if it will not decode Cleveland County's new system. I am also looking at scanner/logging software to use the pc to monitor the scanner while working. I want to be able to view the scanner online while I am working at my desk. Researching options now
Ronnie
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08-27-2009, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by ke4vpn
Well, im still looking at scanners and software and still have not made a choice. The Uniden's are looking good but not sure at this time. I hate to invest that much money in a new scanner if it will not decode Cleveland County's new system. I am also looking at scanner/logging software to use the pc to monitor the scanner while working. I want to be able to view the scanner online while I am working at my desk. Researching options now
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ke4vpn,
With Dustin's help I able to locate my problems to a bad scanner that I bought off of eBay, I sent it back and he sent another and it works fine. The Pro-96 works excellent for the new stuff in Cleveland County. The reason for the Pro-96 is, you can still find them on eBay in the $250 price range versus $400-$500 range for anything else that'll do the digital stuff. For the money the older Pro-96's is the best bang for the buck from all that I've read. The Pro-2096 is base model of the same scanner, and I've seen them for under $300 on eBay as well, they seem to be getting gone fast.
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08-27-2009, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by ke4vpn
Well, im still looking at scanners and software and still have not made a choice. The Uniden's are looking good but not sure at this time. I hate to invest that much money in a new scanner if it will not decode Cleveland County's new system. I am also looking at scanner/logging software to use the pc to monitor the scanner while working. I want to be able to view the scanner online while I am working at my desk. Researching options now
Ronnie
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Ronnie-
While hobotek is right in that the Pro96/Pro2096 is a good value for the money (I have one of each in my collection) do be aware that neither the Pro-96 nor the Pro-2096 allow you do to remotely control it as you say you want to do above. You can upload and download programming to the 96/2096 via computer but you cannot do this:
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I am also looking at scanner/logging software to use the pc to monitor the scanner while working
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If you want to control the scanner real time and log radio activity Uniden is the way to go. With a 396xt or 996xt and the free software program Freescan you can log radio activity realtime.
Again the 96/2096 is a good value but cannot be used to do some of the remote monitoring that you are wanting to do.
Hope this helps!
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