I still don't think that the multi-tables will have to be used for DTRS, but we'll have to wait and see..............................Below is from Radio Shack's official statement at:
http://www.radioshack.com/uc/index....Library/BuyersGuides/research/Scanners12.html
All RadioShack scanner models will work fine on LTR and EDACS trunking systems during and after rebanding but will need to be reprogrammed with the new rebanded frequencies by the customer as they are changed at the system level. LTR and EDACS systems do not use hard-coded channel plans and the scanners will trunk to whatever frequency is programmed into the radio for a particular EDACS LCN or LTR Home Repeater.
All RadioShack scanner models will work fine on true Project 25 trunking systems with the 9600 bps P25 control channel. The PRO-96, 20-526, and PRO-2096 20-496, are the only RadioShack scanners that are Project 25 compatible. If control channel frequencies change as a result of rebanding they will have to be reprogrammed into the scanner by the customer. The P25 channel plan is hard coded into the radios but already has provisions for the new channel spacing that will occur with rebanding. Please see further information below.
All RadioShack scanner models will work fine on Motorola trunking systems (using the legacy Smarnet 3600 baud control channel) that only use frequencies between 851-861 MHz. If control channel frequencies change as a result of rebanding they will have to be reprogrammed into the scanner by the customer. The Motorola channel plan for frequencies between 851-861 MHz will not change during or after rebanding.
Motorola trunking systems (using the legacy Smartnet 3600 baud control channel) that use some, or all frequencies in the range of 866-869 MHz will cause problems for ALL scanners after the systems are rebanded because of changes that Motorola will make to the trunking channel plan that is hard coded into our scanners. We believe that the PRO-96, 20-526, and PRO-2096, 20-496, can be adapted to the new trunking channel plan because there are provisions in those models to manually edit the Motorola trunking channel plans using Win96 software (
www.Starrsoft.com). The edited plans will override the plans that are hard-coded into firmware and we believe that these radios will function just fine on Motorola systems once the custom channel plan is programmed into the bank. We are still fairly confident that this will work, but no one – no scanner manufacturer - will know with certainty until the first Motorola 866-869 MHz system is rebanded and this can be tried in the field.
For ALL other (non-digital) RadioShack scanners (i.e., PRO-91/92/93/94/95, PRO-2052, etc.) the radios will not scan to the correct channel when the system assigns a call to a channel that was previously on a frequency between 866-869 MHz and was retuned to a new, rebanded frequency 15 MHz lower between 851-854 MHz. The Motorola trunking channel plan for these frequencies will change because the frequencies are moving 15 MHz down, and, because channels in the 866-869 are set on 12.5 kHz centers, whereas the pre-rebanding channels in the 851-854 MHz range are on 25 kHz centers, so, the number of frequencies between 851-854 MHz will effectively be doubled.
