Hello Everyone,
Here's my situation. I'm a Volunteer at a neighboring counties EMS station. (My home county is union based and won't allow volunteers.) Their ASA is about 40 miles away from my home. It's fairly flat land out here, East of the Mountains. I currently have a handheld Radio Shack Pro-95 scanner. I primarily keep it in my vehicle (until I get my mobile unit, then the Pro-95 will stay on me when I'm on duty since there aren't always extra radios.) Anyway, I got an external Radio Shack magnet mount antenna which works wonders, but I still have a hard time hearing the frequencies in the neighboring county when I'm in my home town.
Hence the title of this post, would the PSR-400 with the external antenna do better than the Pro-95 would with otherwise the same setup?
At the very least the PSR-400 will display text ID for the channel, whereas with my Pro-95 I have to be able to look at the freqs and figure out who's talking based on memory and unit ID's.
Thanks in advance for your input!
Here's my situation. I'm a Volunteer at a neighboring counties EMS station. (My home county is union based and won't allow volunteers.) Their ASA is about 40 miles away from my home. It's fairly flat land out here, East of the Mountains. I currently have a handheld Radio Shack Pro-95 scanner. I primarily keep it in my vehicle (until I get my mobile unit, then the Pro-95 will stay on me when I'm on duty since there aren't always extra radios.) Anyway, I got an external Radio Shack magnet mount antenna which works wonders, but I still have a hard time hearing the frequencies in the neighboring county when I'm in my home town.
Hence the title of this post, would the PSR-400 with the external antenna do better than the Pro-95 would with otherwise the same setup?
At the very least the PSR-400 will display text ID for the channel, whereas with my Pro-95 I have to be able to look at the freqs and figure out who's talking based on memory and unit ID's.
Thanks in advance for your input!