New Scanner Help

[KF7OQQ]

I have a Pro-95 and since rebanding is really close i thinks it's time to get a new scanner. This is my delema, for something to do on the weekends i am a wildland firefighter and we have freq. cards for field programming of our fire radios and i tried to put the some of the freq. in my scanner and it won't accept them. They are narrow bands. I would also like to be able to chase with the repeaters which i have a hard time doing with the Pro-95. It looks like the Uniden 246t will survive the rebanding and has narrow band? and repeater chase? if i have read correctly. I would like to hear your opinion on it or if another Uniden, RS, GRE scanner might be better here in Ut Co. Any input would be great . My price range is around $200 and would like a handheld. Please excuse the grammer and spelling. Thanks again.

 

[gmclam]

For only $200 your options are very limited. Rebanding, narrowbanding, and the move to digital are all significant issues. If you don't need digital, then the new GRE scanner (essentially an upgraded PRO-97) is probably your best choice IMO. IF you just want something which can receive the narrowband frequencies, you can find a PRO-97 on here (or eBay) for around $100.

 

[gldavis]

Just checking to see if you got an answer for your question, aroylance? If your Freq Cards are all conventional freqs, then you don't need to worry about the re-banding. The re-banding will only effect UCAN. I'm not sure what is meant by "Repeater Chase".

 

[KF7OQQ]

gldavis, Thanks for checking about my question. By "repeater chase" i was wondering if there was a scanner that you could program both tx and rx freq. so it knew when one channel was done it would go to the other channel. After doing more reading i don't think there is one you can programm like that. The reason i'm conserned about the conventional freq. is they have gone narrow band on some of them and my Pro-95 won't accept them :-(

Thanks again

 

[gldavis]

Sorry for the delay here. You can program both RX and TX freqs if you want. Turn the delay off and the radio will search for the next in use freq. Thats the only way i can think of to work. As for the narrow band, you may not be able to program the exact freq, but the bandwidths of msot scanners is wide enough that you will still be able to hear the traffic, you'll just be a few Kc's off tuned. In most cases you won't hear a difference.