Just FYI, It's a lot easier to play with LED settings and such through the software.
Easier, but not easy. Unfortunately in the EZScan software you have to drill down for each object to get to the LED settings. By way of comparison, in ARC500, you could select multiple lines and apply the settings for whole groups of objects at one time.
I rather doubt that anyone is going to bother with 3rd party software now that GRE is pretty much out of business.
Scan Sets are a great tool. Now that I've grasped the concept I set up multiple scan sets with different lists in them. I conceptualize scan sets as similar to Start Keys in Uniden DMA scanners with two very important differences. First, you can associate a list with multiple scan sets and second, you don't have restart the scanner to put a new scan set in to operation.
One of the things I hate about DMA scanners is that if you want to associate a system with multiple Start Keys, you have to duplicate that system for each Start Key you want to associate with. Which means when you update you have to remember to save several versions of the updated system or you will get different results with different start keys.
One of the things I don't like about the PSR800 is that you have no control over how the scanner handles multi site trunk systems. Or, if there is, I haven't figured out how to do it. With the DMA scanners you set up each site to work with a different Start Key, have different dwell times, and other flexible options. With the PSR800, I don't see a way to do that.
For example, the MA State Police run a multisite trunk system. In the Boston area, they run two sites that overlay each other, but have different sets of talk groups on them. One is for public safety and one is for non public safety. In order to get that to work, I had to import the sites and then duplicate that eliminating the non public safety sites. If I didn't the scanner found that data channel first and then never went on to the next site.
I think Uniden gives more flexibility in that regard.
I think GRE did a good job in handling every thing else in regards to wide area scanning. Between V Folders, Scan Lists, and Scan Sets, an experienced user could set up the scanner to cover just about anywhere in the country he might travel. By doing some good editing in the types of frequency blocks imported, you can do a high degree of customization.
I found the learning curve pretty steep, but well worth it.
It's too bad that GRE is essentially out of business because I could have seen a PSR900 as my next mobile scanner.
