What Scanners use Removable flash memory?

[proberts]

Looking to finally upgrade my Realistic Pro-2005. Looking for a Scanner that stores the frequencies in a removable flash card like an SD card or Micro SD Card.

 

[gccflscan]

None.

This has been on "Suggested Features" lists for several years.

No one has decided to follow through on the suggestion.

 

[proberts]

Thanks for reply. But it seems a little stupid to be integrating an expensive usb to pc interface when they could integrate an inexpensive MicroSD card reader. MicroSD card reader are used in camera and cell phones so their market price in in the penny range. Software to interface with thought usb to external hardware is costly to develop and maintain. Software to takes values and put into a binary file format for the scanner to understand it cheap.

 

[JnglMassiv]

I know of no scanners that use removable media in this manner.

My prediction/hope:

Scanners do away with rs232 and get with USB. I cannot support a SD or MicroSD slot, though. Needs to be a standard USB connector, too. Please, please don't make me go searching all over hither and yon for your wacky, hard-to-find connector (teeth gritting at thought of bc245xlt port connector).

Scanner memory will get large enough to store the entire RR.com database several times over. This is on the order of megabytes for data, freqs, alphatags, talkgroups, everything. Scanner database updates will be seamless and integrated and not unlike syncronization of a pda, iPod or smartphone. Updates could be alternatively loaded to USB drives and updates automatically imported.

Removable media will be primarily for recorded audio. A configurable buffer will keep some duration of received audio in memory for quick replay and review. You hear something cool happening on the radio, hit a button and the previous 2 minutes of traffic is captured along with future tx's. A very small solidstate drive (say, 2Gigs) could store hours of action.

Coming to a scanner near you!

 

[gcgrotz]

The AOR 8200 series had that but it wasn't a flash card, it was a proprietary AOR card. I think you had to program it in the radio, you could have additional memory banks and could then change what you scanned by swapping out the card.

That's the only one I know of, as others here seem to agree.

Am 100% agreeing with you jnglMassiv too. I'm so used to TIVO I find myself reaching for the playback button on my car radio (what did he just say?) I'd love that feature in a scanner, with built-in playback, how hard is it to put an MP3 player in a scanner?

 

[K5RYA]

I think it would be a great idea but for some reason I don't see any of our beloved scanner mfgs ever doing this.

 

[Jafo_the_Kid]

How many channels are you monitoring that you need something with more then 1000 Channels and be able to follow everything if it is busy? (just curious) I have read that some scanners their memory can be expanded to double its memory. I can see how sd cards could be handy if you are traveling across a lot of area in a day for fast uploading if there is no other way to program your scanner if you have to do it manually.

I do my programming with Win97 on my pro-97. I have all the files I been creating tucked away and as I need it tadaaah plug in my usb cord and say have at it.

 

[SquierStrat]

an SD card?? looks like someone has a little more research to do on scanners

if a scanner was to have an sd card, it would make much more sense for it to be used for recording audio anyways, instead of storing channels

 

[SCPD]

Thanks for reply. But it seems a little stupid to be integrating an expensive usb to pc interface when they could integrate an inexpensive MicroSD card reader. MicroSD card reader are used in camera and cell phones so their market price in in the penny range. Software to interface with thought usb to external hardware is costly to develop and maintain. Software to takes values and put into a binary file format for the scanner to understand it cheap.

So write & tell the MFG's???

 

[Caesar]

considering how little memory is needed to store channels and we arleady have scanners that hold 5500 memory etc there isn't a need for storage card that i can see. if you were to use different memory card for different area, well that is where the virtual folders or startup key for the scanners come in use. i agree audio recording would be neat but not anything i car much to have, internal memory is easier to manage i believe and one less thing to break however cheap it may be...