BlackSheepDue
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For two years I've had a scanner in my car but just the simple scanner and mag mount didn't seem worth posting about. Where the 536 is now there has also been a 15x and two 996xt's. This past Friday however I added a 996p2 to the collection. As with many in this hobby I am very limited on space and the 536 was already in the only good spot so my only other option was the center console which the 996 barely fits in as it is. I do experience an amount of glare with the 536 and that's my only disappointment with that scanner. In the sun light the screen seems dim and can be quite hard to read with sunglasses on. The 996 and 15x screens are much more suited to that mounting position.
As can be seen in the picture of the passenger footwell my wiring/install skills aren't stellar. The civic only has one 12v plug so right now I'm running two scanners, two BC23A speakers, and a uniden gps off the one plug. Everything works well so far but at the end of this semester(I'm a college student) I'm going to have everything hard wired and professionally "cleaned up."
On the trunk lid are two Pctel maxrad bmaxscan1000's that I swear by. I primarily listen to vhf and 800mhz but there's some uhf thrown in too and it preforms very well on all bands. I've tried a quarter wave vhf and I still think this pctel does a better job. This is actually my parents car so I haven't drilled any holes but I don't think that hurts me any.
The 536 does mostly convention vhf and the 996p2 takes care of MSCOMMNET(a P25 vhf trunked system) and Portland's conventional 800mhz system which is soon to be p25 as well.
As can be seen in the picture of the passenger footwell my wiring/install skills aren't stellar. The civic only has one 12v plug so right now I'm running two scanners, two BC23A speakers, and a uniden gps off the one plug. Everything works well so far but at the end of this semester(I'm a college student) I'm going to have everything hard wired and professionally "cleaned up."
On the trunk lid are two Pctel maxrad bmaxscan1000's that I swear by. I primarily listen to vhf and 800mhz but there's some uhf thrown in too and it preforms very well on all bands. I've tried a quarter wave vhf and I still think this pctel does a better job. This is actually my parents car so I haven't drilled any holes but I don't think that hurts me any.
The 536 does mostly convention vhf and the 996p2 takes care of MSCOMMNET(a P25 vhf trunked system) and Portland's conventional 800mhz system which is soon to be p25 as well.