Drachen_Fire
Member
I am in need of a scanner, preferably of a traditional base/mobile type. I have never really needed a handheld scanner, and the homepatrol scanner-trying-to-be-a-tablet-mixed-with-an-alarm-clock design never really did it for me.
I am an authorized user on some local trunking systems, and have radios for those systems, but I travel quite a bit. At a minimum, I need something that can scan P25 Type 1 trunking systems and Motorola P25 3600-baud systems, and of course, conventional. Being able to properly track 700MHz systems and VHF P25 Phase 1 systems is a requirement, otherwise I would have stuck with a PRO-2096.
Recently, I have had a Whistler WS1065, and it was a thorough dud, unable to scan our local 800MHz P25 Phase 1 trunk. I have been told that others had this issue as well, but that others have had no problem doing so. I sold it and avoided the nonstop tinkering required to make them work, which I have been told was a concurrent problem in the line of epic GRE/Radio Shack/Whistler duds in the form of the PRO 197, PRO 652, PSR-600, and WS-1065, which is a shame, because the PSR-400 it was all based on was a phenomenal analog scanner that I liked a lot.
I've also heard though, that there are plenty of trunking problems with the Uniden BCD996XT/BCD996P2 scanner line.
Does anyone make anything in the $300-$400 range that is actually worth the price they are asking, or am I better off maintaining a bank of Motorola trunking radios using non-affiliate scan?
I am an authorized user on some local trunking systems, and have radios for those systems, but I travel quite a bit. At a minimum, I need something that can scan P25 Type 1 trunking systems and Motorola P25 3600-baud systems, and of course, conventional. Being able to properly track 700MHz systems and VHF P25 Phase 1 systems is a requirement, otherwise I would have stuck with a PRO-2096.
Recently, I have had a Whistler WS1065, and it was a thorough dud, unable to scan our local 800MHz P25 Phase 1 trunk. I have been told that others had this issue as well, but that others have had no problem doing so. I sold it and avoided the nonstop tinkering required to make them work, which I have been told was a concurrent problem in the line of epic GRE/Radio Shack/Whistler duds in the form of the PRO 197, PRO 652, PSR-600, and WS-1065, which is a shame, because the PSR-400 it was all based on was a phenomenal analog scanner that I liked a lot.
I've also heard though, that there are plenty of trunking problems with the Uniden BCD996XT/BCD996P2 scanner line.
Does anyone make anything in the $300-$400 range that is actually worth the price they are asking, or am I better off maintaining a bank of Motorola trunking radios using non-affiliate scan?