Hello all i have a question, i know grecom was bought up by whistler and grecom made radio shack scanners so my question is what was better quality the old grecom/ radio shack or the current whistler line?, for this question I am going to ask would you buy a current whistler model?or a new old stock grecom or radio shacck model on ebay if you had to choose between those options on quality.
I don’t recall any threads showing that the original GRE manufactured scanners (PSR500, PSR60, and the corresponding Radio Shack labeled Pro106 andPro197) have had more, or less issues than the Whistler manufactured versions WS1040 and WS1065, as well as the Radio Shack Pro651 & Pro652.
The old stock doesn't have the same FW or features as the newer TRX series scanners, they do not do DMR, NXDN or Phase 2, so I'd much rather have a new TRX scanner.
As noted, there are slight differences between the older GRE produced models versus the newer units built by Whistler due to some of the components in the early models are no longer available. The slight differences in components required modifications to the firmware so that they performed the same as the ancestor models.
But no matter whether you go with the legacy scanners from GRE, or the “newer” Whistler produced units, you are still looking at an older scanner design model that may not perform as well as newer models such as those from Uniden, or the Whistler “database” units as the WS108X and WS109X, as well as the TRX-1 and -2.
Also, on the original GRE production scanners, as their internal components get older, there’s the possibility that as their scanners age even more, their performance may suffer if critical items drift out of optimum alignment.
