GRE PSR-900 Pre-Release Thread

[DaveIN]

It's probably a straight thru cable. If not, order a cable with the molded 90 degree end. Map out the wires on the cable that came with the unit. Once you have the right config of the wires, cut off the non-angled end and put on a RJ45 plug with the right config.

The way I see it, I shouldn't have to do that, it should be released that way. Why should I pay $500 and still modify the cable.

 

[Quint6]

I wonder if we will be able to buy it in March or April ?
Is it the same specs as 800 ? just mobile
GRE is really blowing away Uniden year after year GRE anounces new products
Uniden hasn't announced any advancement in over 2 years. Way to go GRE

 

[DaveIN]

2nd quarter 2012. So more like summer/fall. From the brochure it has the same features as the 800, but time will tell if there are additional features to be revealed.

 

[mike_s104]

The way I see it, I shouldn't have to do that, it should be released that way. Why should I pay $500 and still modify the cable.

Completely agree.

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[jimg]

Second that! Again, I just don't see how a cable 'sticking out the side' of the control head would look very good. If the cable needs to come out at an angle, then it should come that way! (Just my "two cents" worth.)

 

[trido]

I was told AUG/Sept

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QUOTE=DaveIN;1682288]2nd quarter 2012. So more like summer/fall. From the brochure it has the same features as the 800, but time will tell if there are additional features to be revealed.[/QUOTE]

 

[N8DRC]

With all the less buttons on the front hopefully the display screen is bigger than the 600..

 

[KeyWest35]

Thanks for the pics. I will be saving money for one. I love my 800. It is the best scanner i have ever had. I am sitting here listening to a system loud and clear over 16 miles away as i type.

 

[DaveIN]

With all the less buttons on the front hopefully the display screen is bigger than the 600..

Doesn't look any bigger than the 800 display in the picture, but I'd be happy to be wrong.

 

[K4APR]

I had just about given up on something with remote head and I was THIS close to dropping $300-400 last month on the RadioShack PRO-197. Glad I didn't! Looks like I need to wait and see how this does. I have been hoping for a remote head scanner ever since I sold my Uniden 786D/ScannerMaster remote head combo. It looks like someone FINALLY heard all of our requests for a remote head setup where the head just slips off of the main unit and used a standard cable between the two. Way to go GRE!

 

[davidzimmerman]

I hope they have them at the dayton ohio hamfest my friend is going and i'm going to give him the money to buy me one hes going to get one also should be cheaper their.

Dave

 

[wolverine]

Here's a teaser; she's a mobile PSR-800 with a nice removable faceplate!

That's a nice looking radio, just got my PSR-800 last week. One thing I wish these scanner would come with, is the speakers mounted in the front of the radio, just like on the Motorola radios.

 

[torontokris]

with the current pics i dont see any way the head will mount with the remote ethernet style cable sticking out from the main unit...

so will you have to remove the cable in order to mount it? then re attached the cable after its taken off the mount?


also the headphone and SD card are on the main unit? not the remote head? so ill need a long headphone cable as well.

i think GRE's ideas are in the right place, but seems like a lot of things were not fully thought out... or maybe they were BUT were too expensive to impliment or they were thinking its cleaner to have them on the main unit.. etc

 

[torontokris]

what powers the head unit? the RJ-45 cable?
I see a battery meter on the main screen... just for show/a leftover from the psr-800 or does the remote head need batterys?

 

[RadioDaze]

with the current pics i dont see any way the head will mount with the remote ethernet style cable sticking out from the main unit...

so will you have to remove the cable in order to mount it? then re attached the cable after its taken off the mount?

Do you mean when mounting the head on the main unit, rather than as a remote?

I saw what looked like some gold-colored contacts on the main unit. Probably mates with a counterpart on the head. So the cable wouldn't be needed for that use.

 

[K4APR]

Gordon is obviously a long-time ham guru but I personally don't think scanning is as high up in his radio knowledge agenda so I guess that's why the oversight.

I have personally met Gordon (as MANY others have too) and I have even had dinner with him. A very nice guy and smart, but my take was anything above HF and the basics of VHF/UHF, he is not very well interested.

I really don't think the RJ45 is anything more than the direct wired (some sort of proprietary serial data connection, most likely) connection for the remote head; it would be nice if it were Ethernet but I really highly doubt it. Still, nothing is technically stopping one from using CAT5/6 cable for extending the reach up to the point that the serial data begins to degrade at least though most of that is round and less convenient for a side-connected mount.

I'm going to bet that this is NOT ethernet in any way. The time to implement a TCP/IP stack just for coms between the head and the main unit is not very well suited for this application. Unless there was an actual need for the long distance remoting and others have speculated on, I don't see them doing it. Also, I am going to go out on a limb and say it's most likely pin 1 to pin 1, straight through. When we developed the RH96 remote head interface kit for the Unidens, we used CAT5 cable because we knew it was cheap, readily available, you could make one yourself to a custom length and it had enough conductors to do what we needed it to do. Along with that came the headache of explaining to every one out of every four email inquiries why it was NOT ethernet compatible

 

[RadioDaze]

Along with that came the headache of explaining to every one out of every four email inquiries why it was NOT ethernet compatible

Of course. Why reinvent the wheel and OEM a new type of plug?

It's like a speaker wire being accused of being an electrical cord; it can be, but it simply isn't in that particular application.

 

[woodpecker]

GRE is really blowing away Uniden year after year GRE anounces new products
Uniden hasn't announced any advancement in over 2 years. Way to go GRE

GRE anounces new products which are a backwards step from its previous products, like the inflexible 800 which can be operated by a chimp rather than the excellent 500 with all its bells and whistles. Hardly what I would call blowing away the competition. The 900 looks like the same cripled, designed for a chimp to operate, base/mobile version of the 800 which will be near impossible to operate mobile.

 

[Casey]

GRE anounces new products which are a backwards step from its previous products, like the inflexible 800 which can be operated by a chimp rather than the excellent 500 with all its bells and whistles.

Agreed...I love my PSR 500 & 600 as there are an infinite number of customizations I can make. These newer models are for point and click type people. Nobody can touch GRE on digital audio quality but GRE must innovate with a breakthrough in digital audio performance in high RF environments and those digital simulcast systems that are hard to receive pro-quality audio with. Still love my PSR 500 and 600 though, just have to be patient.

 

[OCO]

Of course. Why reinvent the wheel and OEM a new type of plug?

It's like a speaker wire being accused of being an electrical cord; it can be, but it simply isn't in that particular application.

Note that the RJ45 was used in multiline telephones long before it was adapted for Ethernet...if it works, it works (I've seen standard 110 volt plugs and extension cord type sockets used in (<shudder>) speaker connection setups.