So what do you people think of using the Pro-96 to monitor South Jersey, PA, and Delaware from Camden Co? Does it have enough memory to monitor what I need? I'd like to monitor Camden, Burlington (West, Northwest, Northcentral and North), Gloucester, Salem, and Atlantic counties in New Jersey. I'd also monitor Cherry Hill PD Camden City Vineland and NJSP Troops A and C. In PA I'm trying to pick up Philadelphia, Bucks County, Montgomery County, and possibly Delaware county. In Delaware I'd like to monitor Delaware State TRS and Wilmington City. Do you think I'd be able to fit all this on a Pro-96?
Pro-96 for So. Jersey/PA
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KennyMan
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Yes, you should have more than enough space. You'll just have to switch between the V-Scanner memories. I have a PRO-96 trunk monitoring different areas in the following banks: 0-Philly Fire, 1-Philly EMS, 2-Philly Police, 3-Camden Police, 4-Burlington, 5-DRPA, 6-NJSP, 7-Cherry Hill, 8-Bucks, 9-Montgomery.
Great radio for the area.
You should be O.K. with a 96, you may need to play around with the programming to get the max number of systems into the 10 banks though. I currently have Delaware's TRS (NCC/Kent Fire), Philly Fire, Philly Police, Montco East & West, Salem, Bucks, Burlington, NJSP and a local Moto system as well as conventional freqs for several S.Jersey counties, S.E.PA counties, aeromedical, and some skip/tropo stuff I always program for when conditions are just right. My listening tends to lean heavily towards Fire.
I don't know if used as a portable you would be in a location that could hear all of your listed intrests. That would be an excellent situation to use the V-Scanners as Kenny mentioned, it only takes a minute or less to swap around the V-Scanner profiles.
You should be O.K. with a 96, you may need to play around with the programming to get the max number of systems into the 10 banks though. I currently have Delaware's TRS (NCC/Kent Fire), Philly Fire, Philly Police, Montco East & West, Salem, Bucks, Burlington, NJSP and a local Moto system as well as conventional freqs for several S.Jersey counties, S.E.PA counties, aeromedical, and some skip/tropo stuff I always program for when conditions are just right. My listening tends to lean heavily towards Fire.
I don't know if used as a portable you would be in a location that could hear all of your listed intrests. That would be an excellent situation to use the V-Scanners as Kenny mentioned, it only takes a minute or less to swap around the V-Scanner profiles.
Hey thanks! Thats funny I'm the same way. Police action take it or leave it but my interests are EMS and Fire, mainly MVAs and fires and the like. So while I'm here how to v-scanners work? Are they pieces aside from the scanner (like a memory card that you plug into a camera) or is it internal memory in the scanner?
robbinsj2
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The memory is all internal, but as far as capability goes pretend that they are discs and that only one goes into the disc drive/reader at a time. If you want to switch V-Scanners you need to execute keypad commands which, to continue the metaphor, shut down the scanner and swap discs and reboot the scanner. So you can never scan more than one V-Scanner at a time.
Each V-Scanner has ten banks which can have one trunked system/zone (150 talkgroups in five lists of 30 each) and can have 50 conventional channels (reduced by however many trunked repeater channels you must program in). There are 11 V-Scanners so you can store 5,500 conventional channels and 110 trunked systems and 16,500 talkgroups, but at a single time you can only scan 500 channels and 10 systems and 1,500 talkgroups.
Also, if you take the plunge, remember that any programming changes you make are held only in the active memory. As soon as you load a new V-Scanner, those changes will be lost. If you want to retain them, be sure to SAVE that V-Scanner before you load the new one.
I have V-Scanners set up for metro areas I'm usually too far from to monitor but do occasionally visit; general road trip directions (north/west/south); and favorite vacation destinations. It is handy to have them all stored in the scanner, though the need for them would never be a surprise so it would be just as easy to keep them on my computer and upload them with Win96 as needed. Plus they're easier to manage on the computer, updating certain channels and such.
Jim
Each V-Scanner has ten banks which can have one trunked system/zone (150 talkgroups in five lists of 30 each) and can have 50 conventional channels (reduced by however many trunked repeater channels you must program in). There are 11 V-Scanners so you can store 5,500 conventional channels and 110 trunked systems and 16,500 talkgroups, but at a single time you can only scan 500 channels and 10 systems and 1,500 talkgroups.
Also, if you take the plunge, remember that any programming changes you make are held only in the active memory. As soon as you load a new V-Scanner, those changes will be lost. If you want to retain them, be sure to SAVE that V-Scanner before you load the new one.
I have V-Scanners set up for metro areas I'm usually too far from to monitor but do occasionally visit; general road trip directions (north/west/south); and favorite vacation destinations. It is handy to have them all stored in the scanner, though the need for them would never be a surprise so it would be just as easy to keep them on my computer and upload them with Win96 as needed. Plus they're easier to manage on the computer, updating certain channels and such.
Jim
Great. I am going to be looking at this scanner.
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