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PSR-500 Serious trunking fanatics beware!

When I first bought the PSR-500, I did not know what restrictions were imposed as far as number of total talk groups allowed or number of trunking systems allowed. Tonight I ran into a hurdle that cannot be easily overcome – there is NO solution for this problem that is acceptable to me. [...]

PSR-500 – Five-day Review

After having the scanner for five days now, I find myself very satisfied with all but one aspect.

Front End Overload

The front end overload is rough to get over. I have a local television (WTOV 9) 5 miles or so to the south of me on 191 MHZ – I’m at ~1200 ft [...]

PSR-500 – Thoughts after 12 hours

NOTE: I compare this to a similarly-featured scanner, a Uniden BCD396T / 996T. I’ve never used a PRO-96/2096 to compare it with one of those. But this scanner deserves to be compared with other similarly-featured scanners, not other GRE scanners.

Review updated after 12 hours of use….

(???) PC/IF Data [...]

Waiting on a new scanner – GRE PSR-500

Around this time last year (shortly before I got back into amateur radio) I bought a few scanners (Uniden BCD396T and BCD996T).    Used them for many months before selling them off to Beetle (my buddy Rick, a fellow scanner enthusiast).    They were great scanners.  I’d recommend one to anybody.   However, that was $1000 worth of [...]

Where have I been for last six months?

In between putting 70-80 hours a week in at work / being on call 24/7 and various little health problems, I don’t have a lot of time to progress in the AR hobby these days.   Last year, just when it was the best time to do some antenna work, I became very busy and ended up [...]

USPS – Flawed Shipping

I’m sorry, but the Post Office really can’t deliver packages as efficiently and reliably as UPS/FedEx/DHL.    Today I had my second bad experience with USPS package delivery.

First off, let me say that the ability to effectively track a package is crucial.   At the USPS, they usually only update tracking information at night.    I had purchased a [...]