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Uniden BCT-15 Scanner Review

The BCT-15 is a piece of [...]

RS PRO-197 Digital Scanner Mini-Review

Radio Shack has recently made available the PRO-197 mobile and PRO-106 handheld digital scanners.   These scanners are made by GRE and more than resemble the GRE PSR-600 and PSR-500.

From what all has been said, the guts of these new Radio Shack scanners are the same as their GRE counterparts, and the features mimic those features [...]

Uniden BC396XT Scanner Announced

niden recently sent out a news release to its scanner users regarding some new scanners.   UPMan over at the RadioReference forums posted the details there as well.

You can read the post here:   http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120243

BC396XT

Trunk Tracker IV – follows trunked traffic on APCO 25, Motorola, LTR, and EDACS systems (including EDACS systems using ESK)

The EDACS ESK support [...]

PSR-500 CPU Firmware 1.6 Released

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 [...]

GRE PSR-500/600 – Another great firmware update

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 [...]

PSR-500 : Updated Review After Nearly 4 Months

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 [...]

Plans for the Spring

Now I really need to replace the 2m Ringo Ranger 2 antenna that I have up on the tower with a good scanner antenna (likely from www.dpdproductions.com).   Also on the list in the future is  a few PAR filters (one to kill WTOV and one to the paging transmitter)  and a Stridesberg 4-port active [...]

Waiting on an M-Audio Delta 44

What the hell is that, you say?   It’s a PCI card and breakout box that accepts four separate analog inputs (and also provides four separate analog outputs if you like).

This baby is gonna allow me to put all of the scanner feeds online at once, and add more, while only having to use a single [...]