Thanks for the info.
I'm still at a loss for what kind of Scanner to buy. I want just a hand held and don't want to go over $100-$150. With only half of the county chaging at a time i'm not sure which would be the best. What were you using when you were up here?
Fire822, I've monitored Cache for quite awhile when I've traveled up that way first because I have many friends in the valley and because I've entered a car in the Cruise-In for nearly twenty years.
I've used an "old' RS PRO-95 handheld and an even "older" PRO-2067 mobile in the car for both the VHF and the UCAN stuff on the Logan Peak site. Until recently there wasn't much 800 on Logan Peak except during Cruise-In when the city brings in the UHP for traffic and crowd control. The Event TGs are crazy plus the Airmed traffic and Lifeflight (before encryption) were regulars on the site.
I myself have been weighing my options because the radios I mentioned above neither supports rebanding so, like you, I will be investing in some new radios. I'm really leaning towards the GRE PSR-300 (handheld) and PSR-400 (mobile.) The both support rebanding and they have 1000 channels and store 1500 TGs. I believe bneilson has a GRE radio. I believe that the RS radios I have were made by GRE as well and were marketed by RS. the GRE radios I have seen for about $200 which may be as inexpensive as it gets anymore I'm afraid but you just never know when someone will put them on sale somewhere.
Cache must be serious about joining UCAN. According to
www.ucan800.org they were doing radio tests up Logan Canyon for a proposed site at Beaver Mountain. Logan Peak and Cal Mountain cover the valley well and Mount Ogden covers a good chunk of Wellsville/Sardine Canyon. Blacksmith Fork may be the trick question on the coverage thing. Maybe a small IR site at Hardware Ranch similar to what they put in American Fork Canyon here in UtCo last year would work. Hope this may answer some questions you may have.