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- Dec 27, 2015
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I had (have) a Realistic Pro-37 handheld scanner.
It hasn't worked for a long while. The buttons stopped working and to get it apart to clean the guts, I would have to desolder the antenna connector which I never got around to doing.
Last year, for Christmas, I got a Bearcat BC346XT (I think that was the model #)..
It was so different from my Pro-37, I couldn't figure out how to even use the dang thing lol.
I purchased the ability to update the thing with the database from here and still couldn't figure it out.
I ended up sending it back and planned to get the newer Whistler (forget the model#) that would auto setup with a simple entering of my zip code. But I ended up with unexpected expenses and never bought the other scanner.
This year, for Christmas, I want to rectify this
Looking in the area of $500
I'm thinking of the Whistler TRX-1 or the Uniden BCD436HP
I obviously don't change/upgrade often, so i'm looking for the most I can get for my $$.
My old Pro-37 was pre-trunking tech, but it sure was nice to , with ease, just pick it up, and start scanning up or down the frequencies searching for any new active signals in my area.
This was something I hope to be able to do again as well.
Also.. Where I work, the maintenance team has handhelds for communications around the facility and it would be nice, for instance, to be able to seek through the frequencies and maybe find the freq the handhelds are on and be able to listen in when important machines are down or what-not.
Things like that, to simple silly things like listening in to the McDonald's drive through are things I want, as well as digital transmissions etc from various state officials.
Soooooooo...
I want it all...
Ease of use and programming and being able to pull in digital or not digital , trunked or not trunked, and hopefully being able to link to a pc or tablet to decode stuff like morse code, rtty, fax, packet etc...
It hasn't worked for a long while. The buttons stopped working and to get it apart to clean the guts, I would have to desolder the antenna connector which I never got around to doing.
Last year, for Christmas, I got a Bearcat BC346XT (I think that was the model #)..
It was so different from my Pro-37, I couldn't figure out how to even use the dang thing lol.
I purchased the ability to update the thing with the database from here and still couldn't figure it out.
I ended up sending it back and planned to get the newer Whistler (forget the model#) that would auto setup with a simple entering of my zip code. But I ended up with unexpected expenses and never bought the other scanner.
This year, for Christmas, I want to rectify this
Looking in the area of $500
I'm thinking of the Whistler TRX-1 or the Uniden BCD436HP
I obviously don't change/upgrade often, so i'm looking for the most I can get for my $$.
My old Pro-37 was pre-trunking tech, but it sure was nice to , with ease, just pick it up, and start scanning up or down the frequencies searching for any new active signals in my area.
This was something I hope to be able to do again as well.
Also.. Where I work, the maintenance team has handhelds for communications around the facility and it would be nice, for instance, to be able to seek through the frequencies and maybe find the freq the handhelds are on and be able to listen in when important machines are down or what-not.
Things like that, to simple silly things like listening in to the McDonald's drive through are things I want, as well as digital transmissions etc from various state officials.
Soooooooo...
I want it all...
Ease of use and programming and being able to pull in digital or not digital , trunked or not trunked, and hopefully being able to link to a pc or tablet to decode stuff like morse code, rtty, fax, packet etc...