Slow tone acquisition of yesteryear!!
I hear you!
In fact, I used to use my PRO-2067 SOLELY for CTCSS/DCS capture when "frequency hunting" and then plug the new freq & code into my 780XLT!!
Just to remind myself how slow older Uniden scanners were I just got out my 780xlt I've had stored away to see how excruciatingly slow it is. I can't believe we ever considered this such a cool scanner but then again the 780 was a huge step forward in scanner technology back when it was released. I remember when I got my first 780 I was so excited to fire it up and get things going because it had so many features my prior older scanners never had.
Having an s-meter and tone decode was the coolest thing I'd ever seen in a scanner. Plus you could actually scan more than one trunking type at a time and even scan conventional AND trunked systems simultaneously which was a feature
unheard of at the time! My prior scanner was a Uniden 895xlt and I believe that model only permitted you scan ONE (1) trunking system at a time. You had to choose which system it was going to be and you also couldn't scan a trunked system and conventional stuff simultaneously. It was either/or but not both, and certainly not ALL like you can with today's scanners!
The early days of trunked scanning was VERY different from today's scanner technology and people have NOOOO idea how limited first generation trunking scanners were back then :lol:
That's another reason it's so sad GRE is gone because they were so influential in the changes that took place over the years. Thanks to great companies like GRE and Uniden we can enjoy the wonderful scanners we have today