Granted, the G5 is not a scanner. But it does offer the ability for those in need of multiple pagers to be able to eliminate a second (and/or third) alert pager. Ex: A town has a cadre of volunteers that are members of two or three agencies. In this example, two agencies are volunteer and a third, a full time paid PD. A cop is also a member of a police special activity unit which is also alerted using a pager, and is also a member of the volunteer fire company and additionally, the volunteer ambulance company. All three services have their own radio systems but it’s a combination of digital trunking for the PD, and conventional VHF repeater systems for the FD and ambulance, both with their own frequencies. A pager that does all three depts is ideal. The G5 can do that but not all at once. The PD special units can be set to one knob position but the other two must be on another knob position because you can’t mix them all on one know position and have them scanning.
There’s a question in there… why, when Unication has produced a pager that can accommodate various systems on different bands don’t they allow the knob positions to be “ganged”, where numerous knob positions can be scanned?
There’s a question in there… why, when Unication has produced a pager that can accommodate various systems on different bands don’t they allow the knob positions to be “ganged”, where numerous knob positions can be scanned?
