Anyone here still using a CS750 radio? The CS website seems very outdated - is Jerry and CS out of business perhaps? I haven't used my CS750 radios in years, so surely I am just several years behind, but not readily seeing anything in the forums to give some insight on this either way.
I love using "real" radios as scanners for their ease of use, durability, sensitivity, and audio quality. I have two SDS100 scanners but use my KNG-P800 radios as my primary P25 scanners - these radios have a real "RX Only" mode that actually tracks the system from the control channel and doesn't require a System Key for programming - none of the hacking that is required to listen to a P25 system on a Motorola or Harris radio. Similarly, I used to use my CS750 as a "scanner" to monitor a small (3 frequency) site on a CON+ system used by the rural public safety agencies near my old mountain house. The CS750 worked so much better than even an SDS scanner with DMR upgrade, even though the CS750 couldn't be programmed to actually track the control channel - it required scanning the 3 frequencies in conventional mode. Still, relative to the SDS100 the CS750 had many fewer missed transmissions (though occasionally missed the first less-than-one-second of a transmission as it scanned), rock solid audio, easy to operate, easy to read screen, etc. I sold that mountain house about 5 years ago and the CS750 has been collecting dust since.
I have a new need for monitoring a 3 frequency site on a CON+ system. The SDS100 sorta works, but I'm convinced I'm missing some transmissions, especially in spots where the signal is less than perfect. I thought I'd use a "DMR Radio" in the method I used to use on the old CS750. Picked up a Anytone D168UV mostly because it looked similarly simple, but not loving the operation of the radio or the CPS.
So back to the question - anyone still using a CS750 with current, working software? I don't still have the PC that had the CS750s CPS loaded on it, and I'm not readily seeing a place to download it on what appears to be a very stale CS website. And of course not sure it'd match the old firmware in my CS750 even if I could find and install the CPS on a modern laptop.
Also open to any other suggested models or other ideas you all may have for my use case. I'd gladly even pay Motorola pricing to have a rock-solid radio to monitor DMR trunked systems reliably once again, but my sense is it isn't as easy to acquire and use the requisite CPS, etc. for my use case. Thanks in advance!
Dan
I love using "real" radios as scanners for their ease of use, durability, sensitivity, and audio quality. I have two SDS100 scanners but use my KNG-P800 radios as my primary P25 scanners - these radios have a real "RX Only" mode that actually tracks the system from the control channel and doesn't require a System Key for programming - none of the hacking that is required to listen to a P25 system on a Motorola or Harris radio. Similarly, I used to use my CS750 as a "scanner" to monitor a small (3 frequency) site on a CON+ system used by the rural public safety agencies near my old mountain house. The CS750 worked so much better than even an SDS scanner with DMR upgrade, even though the CS750 couldn't be programmed to actually track the control channel - it required scanning the 3 frequencies in conventional mode. Still, relative to the SDS100 the CS750 had many fewer missed transmissions (though occasionally missed the first less-than-one-second of a transmission as it scanned), rock solid audio, easy to operate, easy to read screen, etc. I sold that mountain house about 5 years ago and the CS750 has been collecting dust since.
I have a new need for monitoring a 3 frequency site on a CON+ system. The SDS100 sorta works, but I'm convinced I'm missing some transmissions, especially in spots where the signal is less than perfect. I thought I'd use a "DMR Radio" in the method I used to use on the old CS750. Picked up a Anytone D168UV mostly because it looked similarly simple, but not loving the operation of the radio or the CPS.
So back to the question - anyone still using a CS750 with current, working software? I don't still have the PC that had the CS750s CPS loaded on it, and I'm not readily seeing a place to download it on what appears to be a very stale CS website. And of course not sure it'd match the old firmware in my CS750 even if I could find and install the CPS on a modern laptop.
Also open to any other suggested models or other ideas you all may have for my use case. I'd gladly even pay Motorola pricing to have a rock-solid radio to monitor DMR trunked systems reliably once again, but my sense is it isn't as easy to acquire and use the requisite CPS, etc. for my use case. Thanks in advance!
Dan
