programing and understanding pro106

[johnyvico]

hey everyone going out to get my pro106 tommorow , i have a pro 96 and win96 and is a wiz at using and programing it . looking at the manual for the pro 106 has my head spinning , i downloading win500 started looking at it and its like looking at french lol . if i had say philalephia into the scanner do i need to add all the id tags or will they come up when it lands on the cc, i have like 4 system in my area that uses edacs cherry hill , camden , atlantic county . drpa . on the 96 we all know they have to start on channel 01 in each bank how do they work on the pro106 , i listen to philly del burlington county . bucks , salem , am i in way over my head or am i making it harder then it is , thanks sorry for the long post

 

[wcu02mpa]

Getting a Pro-106 where???

OK......hate to give you the bad news but I am not sure there is a Pro-106 anywhere right now. I would love to get one as well, but none available anywhere I have found. They are about as rare as a George Bush supporter or offer of employment letter right now.

Mike

 

[n5usr]

Yeah, it may be tough to find one - if you go into a store, be sure to have them check other stores if they don't have one, that's how I got mine. Took a drive across town, but hey...

As to the programming:

- You do not need to enter all the ID tags, you can also enter a "wildcard" entry that will work for any transmission that takes place on a given trunking system. Of course, you won't know who it is unless you've memorized the TGID numbers. An alternative (what I have to do on my older scanners without enough room) is to enter the more commonly-used TGIDs, then use "wildcard" mode and you'll at least have alpha-tags for the ones you care about most.

- The PRO-106/GRE-500 and PRO-197/GRE-600 do away with the banks/channels programming arrangement. (Thankfully!) It's a bit different, but once you get the hang of it I think you'll like it a LOT better! I sure do anyway...

You will make a "TSYS" object for each trunking system, all it contains is the frequencies for the site of interest. (Or all sites, if you want a multi-site system to roam as you drive around.) Then you will create talkgroup objects for each TG you want to enter, referencing it to the appropriate TSYS object. You then create scanlists (what could loosely be referred to as the old "banks") of various talkgroup objects. A given object can be in any particular scanlist, or in several, all, or none! A given scanlist can contain any variety of objects (trunked or conventional) it doesn't care.

 

[DaveIN]

Also don't forget the Wiki and the Radio Shack support page:
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Pro-106
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Pro-106#Related_Pages

 

[johnyvico]

got one

dont know what everyone was talking about i walked into my local radioshack asked if they had one said yes and baught one , easy as that , in fact there are 4 in my area well 3 now , good luck to everyone looking

 

[pitbulvig]

dont know what everyone was talking about i walked into my local radioshack asked if they had one said yes and baught one , easy as that , in fact there are 4 in my area well 3 now , good luck to everyone looking

Just curious ,Where you from??

 

[N8IAA]

hey everyone going out to get my pro106 tommorow , i have a pro 96 and win96 and is a wiz at using and programing it . looking at the manual for the pro 106 has my head spinning , i downloading win500 started looking at it and its like looking at french lol . if i had say philalephia into the scanner do i need to add all the id tags or will they come up when it lands on the cc, i have like 4 system in my area that uses edacs cherry hill , camden , atlantic county . drpa . on the 96 we all know they have to start on channel 01 in each bank how do they work on the pro106 , i listen to philly del burlington county . bucks , salem , am i in way over my head or am i making it harder then it is , thanks sorry for the long post

There are no 'banks' to speak of in the 106. There are just over 1800 scannable objects to put conventional frequencies, trunking frequencies, and TGID's into. Each object has its own number. Since you have a 96, you can download Win500 and import frequencies from the it to the program. It took a while for this 'older' scannerhead to understand what was what. The 106 gives you 20 scanlists to program a lot of monitoring fun. I am slowly learning my new radio (have had it since the beginning of Nov.). It is one outstanding radio to scan with. I truly believe the next level is SDR (software defined radio). For now, this is the closest to that approach.
HTH,
Larry

 

[johnyvico]

im from new jersey just outside philly , 4 stores in my area had atleast one .

 

[johnyvico]

do people have a problem with my postings , i never seem to get the answer i need or ask about . i havent even started to program my 106 we have the scanners in this area but everyone is out of the usb cables lol . in my pro 96 i am very bank orginized , like to do the same in the 106 are they scan list like banks , or that i can use as banks ? how easy is win500 to use

 

[Mike_G_D]

programming the 106/197

johnyvico,

Check this thread: http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128266.

And these:

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121121

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121334

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=125049

-Mike

 

[brentoli]

We need one central 106 thread.... this is so hard to go find 500 about 500 diffrent things, with 2 replies each!