Convince me to sell my 396T and buy the Pro-106

[racin06]

Well, the city of Indianapolis now has an P25 simulcast system. My Uniden 396T pretty much sucks when trying to monitor the P25 system. Even my Pro-2096 does a much better job of monitoring the P25 system. So, besides being able to monitor P25 systems well, what other features would you give the 106 an anvantage over the 396T?

[JASII]

NAC codes, if that interests you in the least.

[buddrousa]

Other than the NAC codes for non trunked systems the price when it was at 299.00 when you could get 2 for the price of 1 396 no main reason the 197/106 hears the P25 the same as your 2096/96 I just have a use for NAC because of TN game wardens and KSP plus I like the building of my custom banks and fav other than that my 2096 and my 96 and 785d serve me just fine.

[walter900]

Originally Posted by racin06

Well, the city of Indianapolis now has an P25 simulcast system. My Uniden 396T pretty much sucks when trying to monitor the P25 system. Even my Pro-2096 does a much better job of monitoring the P25 system. So, besides being able to monitor P25 systems well, what other features would you give the 106 an anvantage over the 396T?

Just watch this, gotta love the assignable LED, beautiful looks, and great operation, nuf said;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo4a2rVbG-A

[Have_Teeth]

Way better Digital AGC than the 396 Makes a world of difference if the people running your local PS trunk are fools who don't read Motorola's technical briefs.

- Selectable/programmable/adjustable per-talkgroup delay.
- You don't have to mess with "quality" settings like the inferior Uniden scanners.
- GRE's engineers don't need 4 years to figure out how to eliminate "machine gunning" problems.
- BNC antenna connector instead of the annoying-as-hell SMA female found on the 396T.

There are many reasons to go GRE (or RS clone) over the Unidens. I was loyal to Uniden for years and purchased several of their digital scanners. They're all junk and Uniden's engineers have no clue how to solve the main issues. Instead of fix them, they'd rather release a new scanner with a "multicolor backlight" instead of adding real features.

GRE designed the PRO-2006. Enough said.

[N8IAA]

Read my post in: Is it just me, pro-106 thread. Used to be a long time Uniden fan. Got hooked on the ease of use and superior scanning that the GRE scanners have.
Nuff said,
Larry

[ind224]

Well, I say go for it. After my 96 worked on this system with no problems at all I was excited to get a good deal on a used 600. But the P25 decode was buggered so I had to get a 106 on sale while I try to get GRE to fix the 600. Meanwhile, I rain checked another 106 Christmas Eve.

[RocketNJ]

Originally Posted by Have_Teeth

Way better Digital AGC than the 396 Makes a world of difference if the people running your local PS trunk are fools who don't read Motorola's technical briefs..

Using a Pro106 local SZ 4.1 system sounds much better running AGC off. Also a local PD (Astro conventional) sounded like crap with AGC on. You could hear background audio ramp up with AGC on. Had this problem in the past with a Pro96 I tested as well.

Uniden has better AGC in my opinion.

I do like some of the features exclusive to the 106.
Using programming cable as discriminator tap/slicer with UniTrunker.
Display conventional NAC codes
Ind ID display during trunking scanning.

Programming is different.
Uniden 396 allows groups in a system. For example, in my county there are 39 agencies. I can create a group for each agency and have the group alpha tag have the town's name.

On the 106 you can only name the scan list and conventional object. Not as flexible with alpha tagging. Also requires a lot more alpha tag editing on import from RR database.

Aside from that. I feel the 106 is a solid performer for the cost.

[Have_Teeth]

AGC use is very subjective. It should not be enabled if you're monitoring a system where the radios are properly programmed with recent firmware.

It's quite normal for background noise to "ramp up" when no one is talking, or when they're between words.

Enabling AGC on the scanner will add some distortion and produce louder, unnatural sounding audio. But it definitely addresses the problems encountered when trying to monitor Motorola radios with 1996-2002 firmware. And even if the radios do have recent firmware, they must be reprogrammed so the subscriber AGC function is activated. A lot of administrators are way too dense in the head to realize that.

Try monitoring a service using old firmware without AGC, where the user picks up the amplified desk mic (on an astro spectra base) and screams into the microphone. You'll be buying yourself a new speaker if your volume was cranked

[Thayne]

Keep the uniden & buy the new one too; you won't get as much as you want when selling.