Programming Pro 96 Scanner for a P25 System

[stingray1492]

I am having a large problem figuring out how to program my radio shack Pro-96 model. I enter the frequencies and then the talk group ids but still hear nothing. When I go to manual mode, I just get noise with a lot of weird text and percentages at the bottom. Could someone take a look at my system and tell me what I am doing wrong. Any in depth help would be greatly appreciated. I am still old school on VHF and this is all greek to me!!!

http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=4563

I look forward to some much needed help!!!!

Thanks,

Drew Morgan

 

[RagnarD]

Hi Stingray,

Do yourself a couple of favors.

1. Spend the $30.00 and buy Don Starr's WIN96 program. It will make programming the scanner so much easier.

2. Become a premium member here at RR. That will allow you to use the web download feature in WIN96 to use the web import feature and put what you need into the program and then load it to the scanner.

In the short term
1. Select the bank you want to program the system into and you press
<pgm>

2. type in the frequency you want to enter and press <enter> NOTE- You only need the frequencies listed in red and blue (the control channel frequencies).

3. press the <mode> key until you see MOT in the upper left hand corner of the display

4. press <pgm>, this will advance the channel number; type 1300.00 and press <enter> (this step puts a dummy spacer frequency between the trunk frequencies).

5. press <pgm> again and enter the next frequency from the list

6. repeat steps 2 through 5 until you have all of the control channels programmed.

7. press the <man> key to exit programming mode

8. press <pgm> and then the <trunk> keys. The display will read "Not trunked!" Press the mode key until Motorola apears.

9. while scanning that bank press <func> then press the <5> key, this will put the bank in "open mode" and all talk groups that the scanner receives will be heard by you. If there is one you like then you can press <enter> to store it.

Well, there you have it.

HTH
73
de
chris
kq4z

 

[rpowley]

Win96 will be a great help. Here is a programming shortcut that may help on some of the basics http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Programming_Shortcut_Pro-96

 

[loumaag]

I moved this to the RS Forum (where it belonged to begin with.)

A comment about the instructions given by kq4z, they are good as far as they go; however, since you are in Huntsville, might I recommend that you don't bother to put in any of the other sites besides the two Walker Co. sites (and only use one 1300 MHz conventional between those two sites.) In any case you can't use the sites that use 700 MHz frequencies as the Pro-96 will not trunk track in that portion of the spectrum and you can't program those frequencies in without the Win96 software to "open" up those frequencies anyway.

 

[stingray1492]

Thanks guys! Im all set up now!!!