Pro-106 setup

[cmkelly1]

i bought a pro-106 yesterday and the pc cable. i have downloaded several of the pc programs but so far all i have gotten is the weather. I became a member of this site and went to download some freq but i did not see any for the memphis police NE precint. Also by looking at the forums it seems that there are no banks in the 106 so does this mean every freq i put in is in one giant folder and the scanner will have to go through all of them? i live in Cordova so i would like some freq for the fire and police and i also work all over the Jackson Tn area so i would like to recive those too also will this scanner pickup the highway patrol between the two cities while driving? This is very frustrating for a new user the shach said they could not program this one just yet but the price was too good not to go ahead and snag it.

 

[DrDSP]

Piece of Cake!

I'm currently visiting the great city of Memphis and bought a PRO-106 here in Memphis. I sure love this city. I just wish I could find Elvis.

I was too cheap to buy an interface cable, so I'll just tell you how to set it up quickly without a cable to listen to the Memphis police.

There is a V-Scanner folder stored in your scanner from the factory containing programming information for this area. All you need to do is to load that folder into the scanner's main memory. Here's how you do it...

1. Press FUNC PGM (PROG) to open the V-Scanner menu.

2. Press the Load softkey (F1).

3. Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll to folder 12.

4. Press the Load softkey (F3).

5. The scanner will prompt you with a warning. Press the Yes softkey (F1).

7. After the loading operation is complete, press the SCAN key. The scanner will reboot and begin scanning.

8. While it is scanning press FUNC 9 to enable list 19, which contains programming information for Memphis.

9. Immediately after completing step 8, verify there is a 9 shown on the next to last row on the LCD (indicating list 19 is enabled). If not, repeat step 8.

You should now hear the Memphis cops.

It is best to disable lists you aren't using. You toggle lists on and off by pressing the number keys on the key pad while the scanner is scanning. For example if you press 1, list one will be enabled if it is currently disabled or vice versa. To toggle lists 11-20, you press FUNC and then the second digit of the list.

For more information, see the guide at the link below.

http://rsk.imageg.net/graphics/uc/rsk/Support/ProductManuals/2000106_AD_EN.pdf

Spend an hour or so reading the above-mentioned guide and the manual, and you should be all set as far as your other questions are concerned. The manual is extremely well written (a riveting read I must say), and the scanner is very easy and intuitive to operate after reading the manual. I enjoyed reading this manual almost as much as using the scanner. This scanner is a real hoot!

 

[cmkelly1]

Dr DSP

thanks for the reply i had found that in the manual but did not turn of the other areas it is working allot better now. so far the pc cable has not been worth the extra 30 bucks. Im hoping to hook up with a friend tommorow who needs to use this cable he has the older serial one and he is going to hook me up hopefully. I even registered on this site for the automatic loading but that too is is a little confusing i may just take this scanner back to the shack.

 

[hcpholder]

With the cable and the Win500 software the programming is a breze! However it's good to know how to do the programming by hand, even if it is time consuming! Don't give up on the Pro-106, it's a great scanner. Just takes some getting used to!