I know this topic has probably come up many times before, but I'm looking to buy one or the other, and features aside, wanted some help on what would best suit me.
I'm a TV news photographer, and I'll be using it for work, and at home.(I do a lot of aviation monitoring) My biggest question and issue is, how user friendly are these units? What I'm looking for is the ability to be able to quickly find and activate or deactivate certain channels depending on where we may be working for the day or a specific incident we're headed to, or be able to directly enter frequencies that we may need only once. Also, we have a scanner plan here at work where all the scanners are set up the same so we can call out a channel number over our two ways and our competition doesn't get wind of what we're listening to. Do these scanners have channel numbers or are they "objects" instead.
I understand that these two scanners are a bit different when it comes to "Banks" and "Channels" in regards to traditional scanners.How different are they, and how much of a learning curve is there?
I also understand that these will scan trunked and conventional at the same time, which shouldn't be a problem as the only trunked system we listen to is Orange County Fire, and I rarely get that far south.
On features alone, I'm leaving towards the 396T. mainly due to size and what appears to be a more traditional user interface.
Just thought I'd get some opinions before I sink $500 in to a radio.
I'm a TV news photographer, and I'll be using it for work, and at home.(I do a lot of aviation monitoring) My biggest question and issue is, how user friendly are these units? What I'm looking for is the ability to be able to quickly find and activate or deactivate certain channels depending on where we may be working for the day or a specific incident we're headed to, or be able to directly enter frequencies that we may need only once. Also, we have a scanner plan here at work where all the scanners are set up the same so we can call out a channel number over our two ways and our competition doesn't get wind of what we're listening to. Do these scanners have channel numbers or are they "objects" instead.
I understand that these two scanners are a bit different when it comes to "Banks" and "Channels" in regards to traditional scanners.How different are they, and how much of a learning curve is there?
I also understand that these will scan trunked and conventional at the same time, which shouldn't be a problem as the only trunked system we listen to is Orange County Fire, and I rarely get that far south.
On features alone, I'm leaving towards the 396T. mainly due to size and what appears to be a more traditional user interface.
Just thought I'd get some opinions before I sink $500 in to a radio.