Recently Radio Shack came out with the PRO-197/PRO-106 (mobile / handheld equivalents to the GRE PSR-600/500). Shortly after, they had a sale (3 or 4 days in Mid December 2008) – these normally $500 digital scanners were selling for $279 (with a 20 dollar coupon) + tax. Insane pricing. Everybody and their mother (including myself) [...]
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It’s been a while since I posted. GRE continues to go above and beyond what any of us users have come to expect. Not enough good things can be said about GRE Support. CPU Firmware 1.6 has been released for the PSR-500/600. DSP Firmware 1.3 is still the latest DSP code. In reading what was fixed/added [...] As has been very typical of GRE thus far, they have released yet another firmware update that has fixed a few small bugs as well as added a few new features. Read the full news entry for the update here: http://www.greamerica.com/support/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=12 Judging by the discussion on RadioReference , the new features were very well received by users [...] It has been ~ 4 months since I wrote my first semi-review of the PSR-500. By no means did I [or will I] write a comprehensive review. But I’ll give readers a taste of what I think after having become familiar with the scanner and having relied upon it for [...] 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. [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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