n6hgg
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Totally!
It should make pie too!yeah, but if it won't do the dishes too, what's the point?
well..........took off on youtube and google searches for programming stuff for my trx-2 and happy to say my scanner now picks up erway ambulance
this scanner is a whole new breed of scanner than what im used to working with (BIG TIME!!!). im so used to just hitting program, inputting frequencies, alpha tagging it, saving it.........not the whole EZ scan, inputting stuff on an SD card, importing stuff, ETC.
i often wonder if maybe i shouldve gotten the homepatrol, or just used the money i spent on this scanner and used it for model trains (one of my other hobbies)
I totally understand!! I have the TRX-1 and came from a old analog handheld Uniden. Took me a few weeks to have the lightbulb light up in my head to understand the not so easy EZ Scan!! It was like learing a whole new language! But after a ton of youtube videos I got it. The Manual is horrible!!
guess im not smart enough for my whistler trx-2, ive tried NUMEROUS TIMES to put stuff in it that i wanna listen to for my area (chemung county ny) and pretty much get stuck.
waste of the $513.00 i spent on it........shouldve just kept the radio shack one i have and call it good.
The Radio Shack Pro-106 was/is awesome. I have programmed several, and are still very useful in my neck of the woods. The current version of that scanner is the Whisler WS1040, which is also nice. I read in another chat on RR labeled "Keypad for WS1040" that OpenCarrier is looking for parts. If you are still interested in purging, maybe they are still in need of parts.you can on my old one lol.......radioshack pro-106. Not sure what i wanna do with it though, might keep it and just program the hell out of it with railroad frequencies
Today's radios are designed, not as a tool for those who have to react to what they hear on the radios, like firemen, cops, buffs, the press, etc, but for radio and computer "enthusiasts," whose only interest is setting up the radio and making note of what they hear. Something like the old DXing days.
Radio manufacturers spend millions to design these radios and pay their technical people (who, for the most part, are only interested in what they put into the radio, not what comes out of it), then sell them to people who have a hard time setting up their smartphones.
Even forgetting about encryption for the moment, just the idea that programing a basic Trunked system...and having the knowledge to even know WHAT radio will carry the Trunked system you want....is overwhelming to most (wasn't there a post somewhere recently from someone who was asking how to "program" a Trunked system, only to find out that the radio he just bought can't handle it?).
And for that reason, it's no wonder people are giving up on these highly-expensive door chocks.
I realized things have gotten bad, especially in the NYC area, when friends of mind ask me to program their 100s and 200s...and I don't even own one! And after muddling through a couple of them, I'm glad I don't.
Agreed! Too many reviews are perfect displays of the buyer's ignorance and has little to do with the item being reviewed.There's quite a few "one star" Amazon reviews of top-end scanners.
Reading the reviews it's clear the performance of the radio is not the reason, but rather the purchaser had little or no prior experience of state-of-the-art scanners and had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
Agreed! Too many reviews are perfect displays of the buyer's ignorance and has little to do with the item being reviewed.
While Amazon has somewhat improved the review process, if you look closely & read between the lines, you'll see reviews that obviously not for the product who's page you are viewing. They have a tendency to lump together reviews, about a specific item, into a wide pool of reviews for all the other products, from the same manufacturer. That can be the case with the "answered questions" as well. At times, you'll see a comment "scanner will not receive digital systems', wedged onto a page for one of the x36HP or P2 scanner models.Agreed! Too many reviews are perfect displays of the buyer's ignorance and has little to do with the item being reviewed.
Any side bets on how many of the 'oops I dropped it' units get returned 'for credit'?Yep, love some of those "one star" Amazon reviews along the lines of, "Just received my Kindle e-reader and it doesn't have a color screen, even my old Kindle Fire tablet has a color screen" = I don't like this wine 'cause it isn't green cheese.
And who can forget the classic:
"I only dropped it twice and it doesn't work anymore"
Agreed! Too many reviews are perfect displays of the buyer's ignorance and has little to do with the item being reviewed.
Any side bets on how many of the 'oops I dropped it' units get returned 'for credit'?
That's why I try to scroll through several reviews instead of just one: easier to get an over-all view of what's going on...