Can you hear the Michigan DNR (including DNR firefighting radio traffic)
also?? Curious to find out....


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"Fredric J. Einstein" wrote in message
s.com...

Lynn wrote:


Poor sensitivity, weak audio, tinny construction. Compared to my old
Bearcat and newer AOR 8000, it's just not made as well, nor is the
reception as good. Signals heard strongly on other scanners fade in
and out on Pro 96. It's going back.


I reply:

I purchased one here in Michigan and find it to be equal in
sensitivity and image rejection to my previous scanner, the BC-245
(Uniden TrunkTracker 2) on standard FM and analogue trunking. I
live about a block away from 4 powerful commercial FM stations,
putting out a total of 125,000 watts of rock music. The PRO-96
doesn't suffer from any interference.

Since our State Police use 9600 baud APCO-25 trunking, I'm able to
hear our State Police for the first time on this scanner. I can hear
two different State Police trunking transmitters from my location in
Oak Park, MI and it follows the conversations flawlessly.

Ergonomically, it's fine, just different from the Uniden Bearcat
model. One of the best features is that you only have to program in
the control channel of a Motorola Type II or APCO trunking system and
it'll find the whole system. On the Uniden, you had to program in
each frequency used by the system. Thus, I use only two channels in a
single to trunk both State Police systems that are within my reception
range. Also, I like the single priority channel for the entire
scanner. On the BC-245, each bank had its own priority channel.

Perhaps Lynn got a poor sample of the PRO-96.

For scanner users here in Michigan, the PRO-96 seems to be the best
solution for a "full scanning package" that's unmatched by any other
available scanner.