GRE PSR 800 Pre Release Thread

[fmon]

The USB cable looks just like supplied cable for my nuvi 680.

 

[DonS]

The USB cable looks just like supplied cable for my nuvi 680.

Yep - it's a pretty standard USB A to USB Mini-B cable.

 

[DaveIN]

Yes. These are the features that the PSR-800 has above the PRO-18:
* Recording / playback
* 200 scan lists (PRO-18 has 100 play lists)
* Tri-color alert LED
* Discriminator output
* V-Scanner II
* Scan Sets
* Clock display while "off" (and connected to external power)
* Auto power-on ("alarm clock")
* "Extra" audio alert tones (PRO-18 has the 7 from PSR-500; PSR-800 has 8 more)
* Power-on password

Will the PSR800 also include additional accessories beyond what the Pro-18 will include or will they be the same in that respect?

 

[DaveIN]

OK, I've got to ask... Will there be a control/memory manager app for the Apple iPad now that the PSR800 is full USB?

 

[mancow]

This thing sounds better and better the more I read the specs. I only have one question and I'm sure the info has probably been posted but I missed it somehow. My only question is how do you directly enter a frequency? Is it like a PRC148 or aircraft radio and you curser over and increment each place up or down?

 

[rdale]

OK, I've got to ask... Will there be a control/memory manager app for the Apple iPad now that the PSR800 is full USB?

What's the connection? The iPad doesn't have USB access.

The answer more likely depends on demand and ability/desire for someone to write it. Honestly I can't see paying much for that app, so it'd take a lot of demand...

 

[DonS]

Will the PSR800 also include additional accessories beyond what the Pro-18 will include or will they be the same in that respect?

I don't know. That's kind of a marketing thing outside my "technical" expertise.

Speaking solely from experience with prior models, I'd suspect that the RS model might have a printed manual, the GRE model might have some kind of power adapter, etc. However, I really don't know.

 

[Halfpint]

Is there any chance we will see better software for programming the scanner than what is supplied with it's sibling the PSR-700? (IE: WINxxx, PSREditxxx and ACRxxx!?)

 

[DonS]

This thing sounds better and better the more I read the specs. I only have one question and I'm sure the info has probably been posted but I missed it somehow. My only question is how do you directly enter a frequency? Is it like a PRC148 or aircraft radio and you curser over and increment each place up or down?

At present, the only way to directly enter a frequency is via the "Limit Search" feature (I've used it to directly enter conventional channels). Yes, it's a move-the-cursor then up-down-on-each-digit method.

 

[DonS]

Is there any chance we will see better software for programming the scanner than what is supplied with it's sibling the PSR-700? (IE: WINxxx, PSREditxxx and ACRxxx!?)

It's unlikely that there will be any 3rd-party software.

What would you want such software to do that the included software doesn't handle?

 

[guitarbrian30]

release it to the wolfs

so when is the release date from the FCC. ??

Really I am hungry! go ahead howl with me I know you want too.

I read the owners manual and I am tickled pink. Finally a easy to use smart scanner. Now the real question is??

How do you remember 200 scanlists?

 

[pjhsba]

Nice! Direct link to the manual https://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/eas/GetApplicationAttachment.html?id=1410867

Tried the link . . . get the message: You are not authorized to access this page.

 

[scannerfreak]

Go Here and then click the links

 

[Quint6]

Any idea when it will be out, this summer ? appox how much $399 $499 ?

 

[pduffy211]

Bluetooth

When they build in WI-FI for downloading the current RR database or streaming particular channels direct to RR.com - let me know! Also, BLUETOOTH and SYNC technology to playback the audio through my car speakers would be good too.

Might check out this little toy for your (I assume) Ford Sync. I'm thinking of buying it for my radios as one thing they all have is the headset jack. This would cover whichever radio I'm playing with at the time. It has good review and it is inexpensive as bluetooth goes. You'll find it on Amazon.

Miccus BluBridge mini-jack: Portable, Bluetooth Music Transmitter with Swiveling connector for all (1/8-Inch) Headphones

 

[markbart]

Psr-800

Go Here and then click the links

Still No Manual.

Mark

 

[DaveIN]

Click on the on the link at the bottom that says "User manual".

 

[pjhsba]

All I get when I download the pdf is a lot of unreadable gobbledegook.

 

[rdale]

Update your Acrobat reader then, since a large number of us have already read it from that website, it really does exist

 

[pjhsba]

Thanks. The key was actually changing the .html tag at the end of the file to a .pdf . . . then it downloaded and opened correctly.