MCWKen
Member
I realize that it is old and outdated, but I found an interesting shortfall yesterday. We have had severe sub-zero temperatures in the Midwest the past few days. I took that scanner outside for about a half hour. I found it odd that there all of a sudden was no traffic on the 800mhz trunked system we have in the county. I knew the plows were out working, and I knew that the Sheriff's department had a lot of stalled/dead/ditched vehicles out in the County. All I heard in that time the VHF State Patrol.
As soon as I got upstairs, put the scanner on the desk, and turned the Whistler 1040 on in the other room. Sure enough lots of radio traffic on 800mhz , but nothing from the Pro-97. Put the radio over the heater, and in 20 minutes, it came back to life. I thought nothing of it at the time. So today, went out and did my thing, had the Pro-97 in my pocket. After 10 minutes, again 800mhz fell silent while I heard the State Patrol rescuing drivers from dead semi's.
For kicks, took the Whistler with me as I ventured out down the parking lot this evening, then warmed up the van. It did not blink an eye, no noticeable change in performance.
I have had Motorola's and Kenwood's outside in this kind of weather, the only issue was the batteries, but not the radios. Since 2007, never had the Pro-97 give me problems in any weather. I found this odd.
As soon as I got upstairs, put the scanner on the desk, and turned the Whistler 1040 on in the other room. Sure enough lots of radio traffic on 800mhz , but nothing from the Pro-97. Put the radio over the heater, and in 20 minutes, it came back to life. I thought nothing of it at the time. So today, went out and did my thing, had the Pro-97 in my pocket. After 10 minutes, again 800mhz fell silent while I heard the State Patrol rescuing drivers from dead semi's.
For kicks, took the Whistler with me as I ventured out down the parking lot this evening, then warmed up the van. It did not blink an eye, no noticeable change in performance.
I have had Motorola's and Kenwood's outside in this kind of weather, the only issue was the batteries, but not the radios. Since 2007, never had the Pro-97 give me problems in any weather. I found this odd.