I own a PRO-2053 and was told by the "scanner guy" at Radio Shack that this scanner would no longer work in Salt Lake City, UT because of rebanding. He told me I needed to buy a new $500.00 digital scanner. Is this true? I haven't been able to listen to my scanner for more than a year now and REALLY miss it. As I read these forums, I realize just how novice I am at this whole scanner thing, but I love it. I am willing to learn. Any help would be appreciated.
Welcome to RR.com
kapalua! First off, I invite you to post in the
Utah Discussion Forum. You can find it by scrolling down through the States on the main RR Forum page. Since we are local, we can be of more help in advising you and answering your questions.
Up to now, you have received mostly proper information. We have undergone rebanding and unfortunately, your scanner has lost
some of its usefulness, but not all of it. You can still scan
Salt Lake City Public Safety (AC33) since its frequencies did not change. You can also scan Murray PD because they have remained as conventional even though they moved to 800 MHz frequencies. As for the rest of UCAN, you will lose some listening ability (
read this article). You will not be able to hear Davis County at all because of its new frequencies. As for the other sites, just program the new Control Channel frequencies and operate CC only. You will lose some of the conversations, but not all of them.
At the present there are only a dozen or so digital TGs in use in the UCAN system, so it is a toss up as to whether or not you would need a digital scanner, although most of us have gone that route just in case.
As I said, please post in the Utah Forum for more help and you need to return to your
User CP (the left side of the second blue bar from the top of any page if you are logged in) and edit your profile to include your location (city and state) as you were requested to do in the material e-mailed to you when you registered. Once you fill in your location it will automatically show in each of your posts. Many of the questions you will have, and their answers, are going to be location specific and without having your location showing you will be asked over and over again what it is. So fill it in now and be done with it. All of the Utah members have their location showing and it is only a small courtesy to the rest of them.
Again, welcome to RR.com.