I can tell ya first hand that many of the whistlers do lousy in simulcast(multiple tower) areas to the point many can't get anything while in their county with four towers nearby here- Midland and Saginaw counties. I have worked with many people and their radio models ws1040(pro 651),ws1065(pro 652), ws1080 off hand, worked fine here in bay county since it is farther away from the influence of four towers to maybe 1-2 of those towers signals get here.
I had em set the attenuater, change settings for roam, stat, off. ... Nothing worked.
Seeing your in Wyoming MI, Kent as mentioned in another thread is going to be something like a twelve tower simulcast system.
Https://forums.radioreference.com/m...n-forum/341690-kent-county-mpscs-article.html
Yes at times the Whistlers work ok in some areas of a simulcast, but I have seen it first hand many times they dont.
Here is a link of the high end review of a TRX-1 with video link on the nearby Saginaw four tower simulcast system -
https://forums.radioreference.com/g...-trx-1-vs-unication-g4-video-mini-review.html I am not saying to get a g4 pager, more$ and programming will be more tougher for the average person to program.
One scanner that is a phase II model is the Uniden 325P2 that was missed in the list above.
I'm not saying I'm a fanboy of Unidens, but all I can tell ya my old 396XT in the above counties works pretty good, only ones who aren't getting any radio traffic are Whistler scanner owners. If it was me, it would be a Uniden and yes a phase II. Uniden has put out a couple firmware updates that went to alleviate some of the simulcast issues.
I don't mean to make this a Whistler vs. Uniden thread only to pass on my first hand findings I have had for you.