Interested in a Unication G5

[CollinsURG]

This is why FD's dont use scanners for personal devices.

My primary knob position monitors county SO which includes small Police departments in the county. SO dispatch and Fire dispatch are priority channels. Salisbury is the largest city with their own dispatch on the same system which is programmed in the same knob position in case I want to hold on that. But is not a priority channel. I wanted to be able to hear calls for only the local fire station, while still being able to hear SO dispatch. This is not a very busy system unless you monitor all channels including Salisbury PD and Fire which I do not want to do. This setup is working out very well.

 

[CollinsURG]

I had the opportunity to take the G5 on a trek through the NC mountains today monitoring NC Highway Patrol and some local agencies on the NC Viper system. Worked great. It followed Viper sites better than the HP2 using GPS. The terrain being mountainous, propagation from sites comes and goes often. The HP2 switching sites by GPS location and range often gets stuck on a site that should be in range, but often enough gives marginal signal. The HP2 was not as reliable as the G5 switching sites using bit error rate. This surprised me since the G5 wants to stick with a site and does not actively scan other sites and compare signals.

It also did well monitoring the Blue Ridge Parkway Rangers on VHF High band P25 conventional with no external antenna option.