PSR-400 Refresher

[paramedic228]

I have a GRECOM PSR-400 scanner (S/N 1250) that I have not programmed in years. It is working fine. I have a GRE America USB programming cable P/N 30-3290. I have a copy of Win97 v01.37, which says that it is a 30-day trial version. On my Windows 10 laptop, I am having trouble reading the scanner when I connect the two. I did download the drivers from the GRE site (CMD20600) and installed them, but with no good luck. I still get a pop-up box that says Unable to open the port \\.\Com2 2. Com2 does not exist
Any help? I have programmed before, but it has been so many years and probably a few computers ago.
I want to READ to scanner first, before making some changes. And then, upload back to the scanner.

 

[gmclam]

Here's the procedure I'd go through:
- Plug the cable into a USB port on your computer (don't worry about the end to the scanner yet)
- Open Device Manager to see which COM port is assigned to the cable.
- You may need to unplug, re-plug and watch the difference to determine which port.
- If you don't see a COM port assigned, you'll need to install a driver. It needs the driver for WIN10.
- Start WIN97. Select the COM port you just figured out.
- Plug the cable into the PC/IF connection of the scanner. Do not use any pigtails.
- Try "download from scanner". What happens?

 

[paramedic228]

Here's the procedure I'd go through:
- Plug the cable into a USB port on your computer (don't worry about the end to the scanner yet)
- Open Device Manager to see which COM port is assigned to the cable.
- You may need to unplug, re-plug and watch the difference to determine which port.
- If you don't see a COM port assigned, you'll need to install a driver. It needs the driver for WIN10.
- Start WIN97. Select the COM port you just figured out.
- Plug the cable into the PC/IF connection of the scanner. Do not use any pigtails.
- Try "download from scanner". What happens?

Absolutely! When I looked in Device Manager it had assigned Port 9. I changed it to Port 2, plugged it in again, and I am off to the races!

Now that I have all of my conventional frequencies updated, I am going to take a run at some of the P25 stuff in the area. I'm going to look on YouTube and see if anyone has ever put anything there in the way of a tutorial. Again, it has been so many years since I did anything with this scanner. I got spoiled with all of my Uniden scanners and the Sentinal software that does most of the legwork for you. If you have any tips though, fire away...thanks!

 

[gmclam]

The PSR-400 cannot receive P25.

 

[paramedic228]

Okay, thanks. Between my G4 and my new SDS100, I have that realm covered. I just had not done anything as far as programming with this PSR400 in so long, that I was trying to do anything that I could to get it up-to-date.