just a stupid question

[batrastard]

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I was just wondering why gre, radio shack, or uniden doesn't come out with a 1000 channel digital scanner? Am I crazy or is it part of the rights of the person who owns the digital scanner rights.

 

[davidmc36]

Likely just a decision on the part of the scanner manufacturer on what limitations to put on the memory structure. Do you really need more than 500 ID's per system? If so just make another identical system with the overflow of ID's in it and set the hold times fairly low so it wont take too long scanning a system that has no activity on it.

 

[scansalot52]

Because it would likely not be that much cheaper for them to design and build as whats available now with dynamic memory etc.

 

[dougjgray]

I think this was a stupid question or I dont understand it, my pro-197 has 1800 channel capability and it is digital, its the same as the gre 600 I believe. or do you mean there is benefit to having a scanner with exactly 1000 channels. I believe the uniden bcd 996 can have even more then the pro197 and the 996 is digital, so how do you figure there arent digital scanners with a 1000 channel capable, or maybe ou could explain the benefit of a scanner with exactly 1000 channel capability

 

[N8IAA]

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I was just wondering why gre, radio shack, or uniden doesn't come out with a 1000 channel digital scanner? Am I crazy or is it part of the rights of the person who owns the digital scanner rights.

Pro-96/2096. Older digital technology scanners. The newer ones allow you to program how many frequencies/TG's, whatever, in configurations to fit large and small systems. The CC frequencies use just one object in memory, each TG uses one object in memory allowing you to put how many TG's you eant per system. The 96/2096 limited how many TG's you could program for a large system.
Larry

 

[batrastard]

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I'm asking why digital scanners like the pro-106 need 39,000 channel capacity. Would it not be cheaper and more cost effective to produce a 1,000 channel basic scanner like the pro-164. Who needs all the v folders?

 

[UPMan]

It would not be any cheaper (and there would be a lot of unused memory laying around inside the scanner).

 

[raisindot]

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I'm asking why digital scanners like the pro-106 need 39,000 channel capacity. Would it not be cheaper and more cost effective to produce a 1,000 channel basic scanner like the pro-164. Who needs all the v folders?

I love having all the V-Folders. I travel fairly frequently and store scanlists/systems./frequencies for the cities I travel to most in separate V-folders. Then all I need to do to listen in a particular city is call up the V folder for that city.

Suzie

 

[davidmc36]

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I'm asking why digital scanners like the pro-106 need 39,000 channel capacity. Would it not be cheaper and more cost effective to produce a 1,000 channel basic scanner like the pro-164. Who needs all the v folders?

If the 106 did not have v-folders it would be comparable to my 246 (not accounting the digital part, jusst memory capacity). I have the 246 stuffed right full and two "V-Folders" on my computer, I would love to have v-folders in it for when I go to different places. The 164 is similar in memory to my 296. Lots of wasted space with only being able to one system per bank. Sure you can put conventional stuff in the empty slots but you end up missing a lot of traffic while it scans the conventional freqs before it moves to the next trunk bank.

It would not be any cheaper (and there would be a lot of unused memory laying around inside the scanner).

I paid nearly $1000 CAD for my 296 (basically it's first month on the market). That's sure not cheap. The 996T was close to the same when it first hit the shelves. I have more than twice as much programmed into the 996 vs the 296 and it is only about 10% of totally full. DMA and OO memory are most certainly superior methods of memory structure. My take is that the acutal chips and what not that make up the scanner probably make up a very small portion of the cost, it is more driven by the cost of all the people's salaries who worked on development and licensing costs incurred by the manufacturer that need to be re-couped in profits, ofter all they are in it for the money.

 

[dougjgray]

Memory these days is cheap I think you can buy 1-2gig of pc memory for under $50 so I am sure memory is a small portion of the cost of a digital scanner. I bet even when it comes to like police radios the digital ones are more expensive then the analog radios not sure though