ok until recently my psr 800 started up fine...now over the last few days, anytime i turn it on it wants me to set the bandplan. even if i set the bandplan in the menu, it still seems to lose it? any ideas of what i did and how to rectify this?
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I was about to suggest the card. Same thing happened to me last week on my Pro-668. Still baffles me that they would choose such low quality components in such an important area. My 668 is only a couple of mnths old. However, since upgrading the micro sd card it has performed great.
Has absolutely nothing to do with low quality components ...
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LOL you beat me to it. What is that old saying that 95% of all computer issues are between the back of the chair and the keyboard.
I have done extensive testing on SD cards for these scanners .. and even a lowly class 4 card will work 100% fine. There is zero benefit to going to a 'faster sd card' in these scanners. You are just wasting your money by buying expensive cards for use in these scanners.
The only benefit .. maybe a bigger size card, to store more data. That is the only benefit of an upgrade.
I have yet to see a proven case of true SD card failure in these scanners when using the stock cards. They are perfectly suited to the job.
However .. SD card corruption is almost always caused by user error, at least in the GRE/Whistler scanners.
The only benefit .. maybe a bigger size card, to store more data. That is the only benefit of an upgrade.
I have yet to see a proven case of true SD card failure in these scanners when using the stock cards. They are perfectly suited to the job.
However .. SD card corruption is almost always caused by user error, at least in the GRE/Whistler scanners.
edmscan I think we can say the same thing about other branded devices with SD problems. For what ever reason they do not have the same luck that camera makers and others have when it comes to SD cards.
That's good to know. Glad I didn't throw my original card out
It wasn't corrupt, i.e. the scanner was still working, but seemed to perform better once I replaced the stock card.Do you think having a faster card would make the audio recording more efficient? What class cards are typically used in the GRE/Whistler scanners?
That's good to know. Glad I didn't throw my original card out
Do you think having a faster card would make the audio recording more efficient? What class cards are typically used in the GRE/Whistler scanners?
I do not want to hijack this thread .. but the OP has already fixed his problem. To answer your question .. having a faster card will do nothing to help in any way in these scanners. A typical class 10 card (which is what people usually go to when they buy a faster card) is like 1000 times the data rate required to keep up to the audio recording requirements of these scanners.
Even the stock cards .. typically a class 4, are like 500x the needed speed. In fact I found that the slower cards did often better when it comes to the audio recording.
I have several very high speed cards .. that are rated at 80 MB/s and do a very poor job of recording audio in these scanners. They skip when used for that purpose.
Check out this thread .. for cards that have been found to work best in at least the Whistler 1095.
http://forums.radioreference.com/whistler-scanners/316612-what-sd-card-you-using-thread.html
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