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Memorex MSB1003 Scannocular
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Scannocular Specs: WX 161.6500-163.2750 MHz (ten channels)
GRE PSR 800 Pre Release Thread
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Scannocular Specs: WX 161.6500-163.2750 MHz (ten channels)
mikey60
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mekaone
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OK.
I'm all set. Just got all my tax stuff together and going to mail it before the end of the month.
Come on GRE. Bring on the PSR-800 and the price (Hope it is not to high)
Perfect timing releasing the scanner during tax season.
I'm all set. Just got all my tax stuff together and going to mail it before the end of the month.
Come on GRE. Bring on the PSR-800 and the price
(Hope it is not to high)Perfect timing releasing the scanner during tax season.
Its already been mentioned by others in the know=$500.00/......
mekaone
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I know. I found the posts and video but I am being optimistic that it would be a bit lower in price. You can always hope Everyone in my ham radio club wants me to bring it in to a meeting to show everyone when I get it. Most of them have showed a good amount of interest in the scanner. We have a lot of scanner buffs there. This has been an awesome thread for info on the 800.
Eric
Everyone in my ham radio club wants me to bring it in to a meeting to show everyone when I get it. Most of them have showed a good amount of interest in the scanner. We have a lot of scanner buffs there. This has been an awesome thread for info on the 800.Eric
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That's right.
I was pretty sure the "scannocular" was missing all VHF as well .. but maybe not ...
The Nascar Proscan 100 is 450-470 only:
"Proscan 100 professional quality scanner that is built for track use, can store up to 100 frequencies and scans in the 450-470 MHz range used by the race teams" ..
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Come on now, Rob. You know they aren't arguing the 800's specs but are responding to your "NOAA channels are in every scanner that ever existed" comment.
Anyhow, I think we can let it go now
Another question for Don...
I assume the 800 uses TSYS objects like the 500/600 to represent trunking systems. In replying to another question in another thread I recalled a weakness in the 500/600 OO programming scheme - the inability to map talk groups to multiple TSYS's. Does the 800 overcome this? That is, can I have a talk group belong to multiple TSYS's without having to duplicate it across those TSYS's?
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I assume the 800 uses TSYS objects like the 500/600 to represent trunking systems. In replying to another question in another thread I recalled a weakness in the 500/600 OO programming scheme - the inability to map talk groups to multiple TSYS's. Does the 800 overcome this? That is, can I have a talk group belong to multiple TSYS's without having to duplicate it across those TSYS's?
-Mike
Do we have any idea on what the price of the unit will be.
TES
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Look at post 224 in this thread for the best-guess MSRP.
It sounds like it might just be a cool little radio
al95
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I have not read the whole posting pages just saw the video of the psr-800. I love the new belt clip seems to be spring loaded type clip. Can some confirm this. Will this clip fit the PSR-500 and PRO-106 as an upgrade belt clip.
DonS
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While the PSR-800's data architecture is nothing like the PSR-500/600, a talkgroup can still belong to exactly one trunked system.
Why would you want to put it in more than one?
For those multisite systems wherein each site shares common talk groups. As it is now (with my 500) I must create a "common" TSYS which has those talk groups or else I would have to duplicate them across the other location specific TSYS's.
I recall this being a sort of "hot topic" amongst some users monitoring very large systems shortly after the 500 came out - predating my owning of one by quite some time - so the question/desired feature was not originated by me. I read up on it and knew about it before I even purchased the scanner knowing this limitation and thinking of a workaround. I came up with the "common" TSYS as my workaround.
Some users scanning very large multisite systems want to engage/disengage TSYS objects (trunking sites) belonging to the large system as they travel in and out of the coverage areas of these sites. This you can already do; however, in programming such a system in the scanner, if the system uses many common talk groups across the whole system you either have to keep programming those same talk groups in each TSYS or else you create one large TSYS containing all system-wide control channels with just those common talk groups. For me, this works, but for systems larger than the one I monitor (San Diego County RCS, which is fairly large in and of itself) such as some statewide systems I have read about creating such a common TSYS may not be possible unless you divide it up into more than one due to the additional control channels (I have only read that this is a problem and not verified it).
It just seems far more efficient to me to allow multi-site systems to reference multiple talk groups rather than force the user to duplicate such talk groups repeatedly. If I could do this (reference a talk group to multiple TSYS's), I could eliminate the "common" TSYS altogether thereby saving considerable memory space. I own one Uniden scanner with the DMA feature and can say that that is one ability that I prefer in it over the GRE OO method as used in the 500/600 scanners though, overall, I still prefer the GRE OO system (granted, maybe because I learned it first, but. anyway).
I guess I'll try and dig up the old threads concerning this discussion but it could take some time - not tonight, sorry;-) - if you want. For an example of a current need of such a feature besides myself, here is a thread I recently replied to, though it applies to EDACS systems where it is even more of an issue: http://forums.radioreference.com/gre-scanners/201422-efficient-programming-simulcast-systems.html. Also, I could be wrong here as it has been awhile, but I seem to recall you acknowledging this as a limitation yourself when one of those old posters I mentioned asked about it - as I said, it's been awhile so I could be wrong about that but I know it was a fairly common question/requested feature for awhile after the 500 hit the market.
-Mike
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The good news is that since you aren't facing a TG limit anymore, programming them in multiple times won't be an issue like it is for other scanners.
DonS
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There's also no limit on the number of sites per trunked system, in case that makes a difference.
Sheez Don - after seeing the first post and blowing this radio off, you get us more excited every day! The thought of driving around Michigan with just one TSYS boggles my mind...
Yea it will be amazing to actually have the room to enter an entire system and be done with it. My only concern is a lack of keyboard but with that kind of room I might not miss it.
Tramagod
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Not sure if anyone is aware, but there is a brief introductory video for the PSR-800 on youtube. After viewing it, I may hold out for the release over a Home Patrol, not sure yet.
Got a link? There was a video from CES posted here earlier and that's all I can find when seraching.
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