Actually, I really can't really express how disappointed I am in the PSR-800 without using profanity. As far as I am concerned it's garbage due to its liimted usefulness.
I just can't imagine GRE having the Multisite STAT option in the PSR-500/600 but not carrying it over to the PSR-800. Seriously, this has to be something easily addressed in firmware. I voiced this concern before, but people just don't seem to get the importance. I don't care if the PSR-800 has the room to add 100+ sites of a statewide system and hundreds of talkgroups for each site. It's totally inefficient, and every time you find a new talkgroup that might be used across multiple sites you have to attach it to a computer, fire up the software, and add the new talkgroup to each site of that networked Moto trunked system. At least if they supported Multisite STAT you could add a single site with 20 control channels covering 10 actual sites and have just one list of talkgroups.
Not having the TUNE function available is just crazy. The scanner is capable of doing so much, but you aren't afforded the opportunity to use it for sleuthing trunked systems without the TUNE mode.
Apparently you can't even access a TSYS object in a PSR-800 to modify it, select one of its frequencies to analyze, etc.
Seriously, I've had the scanner for months and just couldn't bring myself to use it because of such unnecessaary shortcomings. The only reason I still have it is because I got it at such a discount. I'd consider selling it off to an RR Admin.
There is just so much I could [and probably should] write here, but it isn't worth my time. I haven't seen any firmware updates come out for months, and the one that did really didn't add any new functionality. I get the feeling that GRE has no intentions on doing anything more with it. I hope I'm wrong. Just from what I've seen so far, they aren't supporting this scanner like they did the PSR-500/600.
Then I look at what Uniden has done with updates/upgrades since the original HP-1 came out. What a turnaround. They should own the market with the HP-1.
All of the things I've mentioned have been talked about ad nauseum in a hundred different threads. I imagine the only response I'll get to this is from all of the people that swear by this unit. But it is totally dependent on a computer and software to program it, which makes it totally useless to use to sleuth out new data for new trunked systems / sites.
Then, you can't simply lock out individual sites or trunked systems unless you hook it up the computer again and use the software to do so. I suppose I could just add each site and its associated talkgroups to separate scanlists and then enable/disable those scanlists. Even enabling/disablign scanlists is inefficient. And why should we have to do this when the PSR-500/600 already had these capabilities built in.
I'm sure I'd find much more to gripe about, but I can't bring myself to use the dev ice anymore than I already have.
Mike
- There is no way to enter a trunked system in without a computer and the software
- There is no multisite STAT option
- There is no numeric keypad
- There is no TUNE option (think PSR-500/600 and PRO-197/106)
- You can't charge the batteries and actually use the scanner at the same time
- I don't get nearly the life out of a set of rechargable batteries as I do when using those same batteries in a PSR-500
I just can't imagine GRE having the Multisite STAT option in the PSR-500/600 but not carrying it over to the PSR-800. Seriously, this has to be something easily addressed in firmware. I voiced this concern before, but people just don't seem to get the importance. I don't care if the PSR-800 has the room to add 100+ sites of a statewide system and hundreds of talkgroups for each site. It's totally inefficient, and every time you find a new talkgroup that might be used across multiple sites you have to attach it to a computer, fire up the software, and add the new talkgroup to each site of that networked Moto trunked system. At least if they supported Multisite STAT you could add a single site with 20 control channels covering 10 actual sites and have just one list of talkgroups.
Not having the TUNE function available is just crazy. The scanner is capable of doing so much, but you aren't afforded the opportunity to use it for sleuthing trunked systems without the TUNE mode.
Apparently you can't even access a TSYS object in a PSR-800 to modify it, select one of its frequencies to analyze, etc.
Seriously, I've had the scanner for months and just couldn't bring myself to use it because of such unnecessaary shortcomings. The only reason I still have it is because I got it at such a discount. I'd consider selling it off to an RR Admin.
There is just so much I could [and probably should] write here, but it isn't worth my time. I haven't seen any firmware updates come out for months, and the one that did really didn't add any new functionality. I get the feeling that GRE has no intentions on doing anything more with it. I hope I'm wrong. Just from what I've seen so far, they aren't supporting this scanner like they did the PSR-500/600.
Then I look at what Uniden has done with updates/upgrades since the original HP-1 came out. What a turnaround. They should own the market with the HP-1.
All of the things I've mentioned have been talked about ad nauseum in a hundred different threads. I imagine the only response I'll get to this is from all of the people that swear by this unit. But it is totally dependent on a computer and software to program it, which makes it totally useless to use to sleuth out new data for new trunked systems / sites.
Then, you can't simply lock out individual sites or trunked systems unless you hook it up the computer again and use the software to do so. I suppose I could just add each site and its associated talkgroups to separate scanlists and then enable/disable those scanlists. Even enabling/disablign scanlists is inefficient. And why should we have to do this when the PSR-500/600 already had these capabilities built in.
I'm sure I'd find much more to gripe about, but I can't bring myself to use the dev ice anymore than I already have.
Mike