KompactKites
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Hey everyone, just thought I would introduce myself and tell my story in hopes for some help/to help others in my situation. My name is michael, and I just recently got into a Radio Shack Pro - 528 portable scanner ( Pro-528 - The RadioReference Wiki )
And the Radio Shack programming cable and driver software still in the package.
I am a complete noob when it comes to this item, as i mentioned i just recently started using this.
I decided to give it a whirl today (even though im running windows 7, and of course thats not on the listed supported operating systems on the package) and got the driver installed successfully.
What brought me to this site is realizing I would still need some programming software. Just in the last week I have had it, I have just allowed it to "scan" but doesnt seem to be scanning too many channels and I often get static channels and whatnot so I figured a software programming would be best.
Now granted this scanner is old, but I figured what the hey, and downloaded two programs, the demo scancat and I found software called "scanner software" on this website.
The scan caat program has to be run in affinity cpu 0 mode in order to run properly, but often crashes and freezes. The scanner software program is also a demo and I am about to try to upload the free web service frequencies.
I thought I would post this in hopes to help some others in my situation and to receive some tips if you guys have any. I will spend some time reading some threads after posting this, and try to tackle this issue, I would like to get this scanner running well.
Thanks in advance, and hope everyone's week is going good!
And the Radio Shack programming cable and driver software still in the package.
I am a complete noob when it comes to this item, as i mentioned i just recently started using this.
I decided to give it a whirl today (even though im running windows 7, and of course thats not on the listed supported operating systems on the package) and got the driver installed successfully.
What brought me to this site is realizing I would still need some programming software. Just in the last week I have had it, I have just allowed it to "scan" but doesnt seem to be scanning too many channels and I often get static channels and whatnot so I figured a software programming would be best.
Now granted this scanner is old, but I figured what the hey, and downloaded two programs, the demo scancat and I found software called "scanner software" on this website.
The scan caat program has to be run in affinity cpu 0 mode in order to run properly, but often crashes and freezes. The scanner software program is also a demo and I am about to try to upload the free web service frequencies.
I thought I would post this in hopes to help some others in my situation and to receive some tips if you guys have any. I will spend some time reading some threads after posting this, and try to tackle this issue, I would like to get this scanner running well.
Thanks in advance, and hope everyone's week is going good!