I have been enjoying my Pro 106 scanner for almost a year. I am sure there are more features on this scanner that Im not aware of. I live in Maryland and Baltimore County has recently switched to digital. My scanner is digital, but some reason, I am not picking up anything now. I tried to reset the scanner but nothing has changed. It is very frustrating to TRY to read the manual, especially when you have NO patience for it. Also, when I had an analog scanner, I was able to hear ambo calls to the receiving hospital, but now since I have the digital, I am not able to hear them. Is there something I need to program into the scanner to hear these calls.
You need to set your scanner to P25 auto since it has moved to APCO 25 and put in the control channels which are in red and blue and no other frequencies. Then you need to assign talkgroups and give them alpha tags. The Pro 106 does do a lot.
The best thing is to get software and program it. You can do it by hand which I do for my Pro 106 but it takes time and patience but to me it's rewarding. If the ambulance to hospital are still analog all you have to do is
1.)Press PGM
2.)Press F1/NEW Key
3.)Press F2/CONV key
4.)Press The SEL key to make sure an asterisk (*) is next to Scan Lists: *01
5.)Press the down arrow key and put whatever freq:xxx.xxxx
6.)Press the down arrow key to Tag:Channel and give it a name
7.)Press down to Sq Mode:Search, keep it like that
8.)Press down arrow key LED Color: Press the right arrow key 1-7 to choose a color
9.)press F1/Save Key
10.)Press the Scan button. If it says nothing enable press the #1 key.
So yes the Pro 106 can do quite a bit of things you want. You can put your name in there, protect with a password so no one else can change things. etc..