Whistler now owns the rights to those, they replace the inner components with the WS1080 when they do the upgrade, and from experience it drastically improves the scanner, not to mention allows you to do database upgrades through EZ Scan.
The GRE scanner company from first Japan in the '60s making slide rule dial tunable Police radios and eventually scanners in China was one of the main manufacturers of Radio Shack scanners.
GRE went out of business under some kind of domestic domain dispute with China and Whistler radar detector company bought GRE Lock Stock and Barrel, sight unseen and rebranded their radios and then sold them to Radio Shack who rebranded them with the Radio Shack logo.
Whistler now owns the rights to those, they replace the inner components with the WS1080 when they do the upgrade, and from experience it drastically improves the scanner, not to mention allows you to do database upgrades through EZ Scan.
If I'm wrong thank you for the correction, but I thought they replaced the whole board, I had a PSR800 that was already upgraded and was giving me all kinds of issues including fading screen (bought used at great price) and Whistler told me to send it in for the upgrade and when it came back everything was like new, that's why I thought...
If I'm wrong thank you for the correction, but I thought they replaced the whole board, I had a PSR800 that was already upgraded and was giving me all kinds of issues including fading screen (bought used at great price) and Whistler told me to send it in for the upgrade and when it came back everything was like new, that's why I thought...
During that transition period, and it's hard to remember, the GRE PSR 800 was never a Whistler radio they went right into the keyboard model under The Whistler name. The pro 18 made by GRE for Radio Shack only, never had a Whistler model. There was never a GRE PSR 900 except for beta models which are still floating around out there. The first release of the PSR 900 was under the Whistler name as the ws1095.