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I quickly looked, but with the amount of time since initial realeases, I'll venture on this.
I DO have a 536, in which is mounted in my ride. However, I am also considering a 996P2 - just because.
One of them will stay in my ride (which does a lot of cross county / regional driving) and one will be installing the desk at some point.
With all the current firmware updates, does one have any better general features than the other? I've looked at some online documentation - and the 996P2 appears to essentially do the same as the 536, but is more of a scanner's scanner.
Has any sensitivity increase between the two? (This I'd like to have the best of-I still monitor Sub 50MHz freqs)
I guess if having them side by side, is one really "better" or "featured" than the other?
The 536 is nice as it loads the entire database (hence in the truck right now) but the other will be a desk queen. I dunno. I find the lack good legacy search/discovery features of the 536 annoying - and the single color backlight, eh. I'd rather have multicolor being service dependent.
Or, is there a decent third alternative?
I looked quickly at the 436 vs 326(?) thread, but most were comparing portables which doesn't always equal apples to apples.
And I like black radios. Goes with the rest of the console.
I DO have a 536, in which is mounted in my ride. However, I am also considering a 996P2 - just because.
One of them will stay in my ride (which does a lot of cross county / regional driving) and one will be installing the desk at some point.
With all the current firmware updates, does one have any better general features than the other? I've looked at some online documentation - and the 996P2 appears to essentially do the same as the 536, but is more of a scanner's scanner.
Has any sensitivity increase between the two? (This I'd like to have the best of-I still monitor Sub 50MHz freqs)
I guess if having them side by side, is one really "better" or "featured" than the other?
The 536 is nice as it loads the entire database (hence in the truck right now) but the other will be a desk queen. I dunno. I find the lack good legacy search/discovery features of the 536 annoying - and the single color backlight, eh. I'd rather have multicolor being service dependent.
Or, is there a decent third alternative?
I looked quickly at the 436 vs 326(?) thread, but most were comparing portables which doesn't always equal apples to apples.
And I like black radios. Goes with the rest of the console.