That is probably the first time I’ve ever heard a positive review of a TRX scanner in a simulcast environment. My TRX-1 was hit and miss, very sporadic coms on the Ohio MARCS system. What it did very well with was DMR and NXDN without any paid upgrades. People debate that the TRX-1 does not ‘properly’ track and decode DMR, but if I am able to follow conversations word for word - who the hell cares? Great scanner, but never have I heard the TRX-1 being applauded for its performance on a simulcast system. That’s a first for me.
Concur, gotta love semantics. As long as you're following the conversation, as far as I'm concerned the radio
is trunk-tracking... it's just doing it in a different way.
Personally my TRX-1 and earlier GRE/Whistler models tend to work pretty well on simulcast, but that's because I'm several miles away from the nearest tower site; get in closer where I'm in the midst of several sites and it's a different story. That's when the SDS100 comes into play.
But there are trade-offs; the memory management of the SDS100/200 is not user-friendly, where the "scan list" method of the Whistler is superior, in my opinion.