GOTTA STUPID QUESTION

[LAYMAN]

RECENTLY BOUGHT A PRO-95, WITH ALPHA NUMERIC,

WILL THIS SCANNER TRACK "LTR TRUNKING",

IF NOT WHAT NEXT SCANNER WILL.



THANKS,

LAYMAN

 

[Mick]

A review of this scanner at http://www.scanningusa.com/mini_reviews/pro95.html
says it will not work on LTR systems.

 

[LAYMAN]

thanks

THANKS,

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I COULD UPDATE TO ?


-LAYMAN

 

[LarrySC]

PRO-96

 

[scanfan447]

stupid question ?

bc246t

 

[fireant]

According to the Pro 96 manual it does not do Ltr. I would get the BC246T

fireant

 

[KD5WLX]

Know What You Need B4 You Can Decide What You Want

Rule number one for buying a radio - know what you want to do with it, and make sure what you buy will do what you want.

The Pro-92 (HH) and Pro-2067 (base/mobile) are Radio Shack scanners made by GRE that do Motorola, EDACS and LTR trunking, and have alpha tags. They also have PL controlled squelch (like CTCSS receive mode on a Ham radio) and the fastest PL search I have ever seen. Discontinued by RS, but still commonly available on the used market.

The later RS scanners made by GRE (the 93, 95, and 96) do NOT do LTR trunking.

I don't know about Unidens, but others on this group can help there.

It's kind of like the digital argument. At my regular RS, the sales person tried to sell me a -96. I said, "Why, there's no digital here that requires it. I'd be paying an extra $350 for features I can't use". She had no idea what I was talking about.

So I explained to her (the manager at this store) that Tulsa only has one digital talkgroup, and it's the EMSA (encrypted) and that the best deal on their shelf was the $150 (on sale) Pro-95 - with the drawback to it being that it won't trunk LTR (around here, most notably used by Storey Wrecker).

So she asked how to monitor them, and I pulled my 5 year old -95 off my belt.

Jay

 

[foster_006]

Like the man said, 92 is incredible when it comes to PL search. The Pro 92 also does very well when trunking an LTR system. I was very pleased!


Also, Uniden 780/785d are both very good, but you need to have the LCN for them.

 

[crayon]

Re: Know What You Need B4 You Can Decide What You Want

(around here, most notably used by Storey Wrecker)

Storey Wrecker is cave of robbers and I so wish for them to get what is coming to them. arugh!! I gotta stop talking about them .. SERENITY NOW!!!

So she asked how to monitor them, and I pulled my 5 year old -95 off my belt.

ummm .. 5 years??

http://www.strongsignals.net/access/content/release.html

 

[KD5WLX]

Age of the -92

I pulled that off the top - seems like I've had it forever (but then again, I still use a Pro-41 for monitoring some local ham repeaters - does that date me?).

Let's see - with some more careful figuring - I was working at TAASC when I bought it - They folded in 2001. So I had to have gotten it around Christmas 2000.

Is 4 and a month close enough?

The point stands, though. If you HAVE to have LTR and/or PL decode/squelch, and you don't need other "newer" features, a -92 can be had on the used market for ~$100. I know R$ hates to hear that, but the fact remains that some of their "newer" scanners are LESS capable. Granted, some of their newer scanners are MORE capable (-96), but if there's no digi to hear, why pay three bills more for it?

Jay

 

[crayon]

Re: Age of the -92

Is 4 and a month close enough?

oh yeah, I was just ribb'n ya anyways!

(forgot to add the smiley on my previous post, although, with some of these redneck blockheads we have around here, it doesnt matter if you do or you dont. They aint smart enough to pound sand in a hole.)

*sigh*