PRO-95 Scanner questions
 

After my Pro-37 gave up ghost after 10 years I am thinking of getting
PRO-95. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Cass

"Cass Lewart" wrote in message
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After my Pro-37 gave up ghost after 10 years I am thinking of getting
PRO-95. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

It's a great scanner-- dual trunking, 1000 channels. I believe Radio Shack's
got them on sale now; check their website. I'm delighted with mine.

Jackie

"Cass Lewart" wrote in message
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After my Pro-37 gave up ghost after 10 years I am thinking of getting
PRO-95. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Cass


I have been real happy with mine. I am a real amature at this. I only bought
a 95 because the police here were going to switch to 800 trunked. I was
using a Pro-79. The first thing I found was the 95 did do much better at
picking up calls in places where reception was hard to get on the 450 band.
As said the Manual is very poorly written. It's as if it was made for
people who already know how to use the radio. After you learn, it's great,
but there are plenty of people willing to help you while you learn. Since I
only am interested in Police I never bothered to get the cable to use it
with a PC, but they are easy to buy. As long as you don't need digital they
work great. The new BC is smaller and is supposed to work about as well in a
more compact package, and is only about $50.00 more. There are enough of
those out there now to get people to help you with them also.

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The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

I had a Pro-95 but I found it too bulky and hard to use (and no one in my
area uses trunking), so I sold it on eBay.

So, with a few extra dollars in my pocket, I went to my local Wal-Mart store
and got myself one of the new little Uniden BC92XLT scanners for just $99
(lowest price anywhere, NO shipping cost, and you don't have to wait even a
minute for it to arrive).

After a week with my little BC92, I think it's a perfect scanner for me.
It's very sensitive, very fast, and very small.

The BC92 isn't my only scanner. I've got others by Uniden, RS, Sony, and
Yaesu, but my little BC92 is holding its own right now.

Stop by your local Wal-Mart and try one (they accept returns if you don't
like it). The BC92s are back in the automotive section in a glass case. They
have a NASCAR label on the front of them, but don't let that worry you. It
has nothing to do with NASCAR or auto racing. I guess the NASCAR name is
just another gimmick to sell scanners.

Oh, the BC92 has the exact same Close CallT RF Capture Technology that the
BC246T has. That was another reason that I bought the BC92. I originally
planned to get a BC246T, but after doing my homework, the BC246T would have
cost me $140 more, and it wouldn't have done any more for me than the BC92.

Thanks for comments. What kind of software will I need to store
frequencies on my computer? What is the layout of the PC cable?
Cass

There was a thread on the PRO-95 back in September, and I gave my
opinion. Bottom line: a good buy, but could have been much better if
Radio Shack had given it a well-designed user interface.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...0?dmode=source

In general, the trunking features of the user interface are inferior
to their conventional (non-trunking) counterparts, and are accessed in
a completely different manner. I get the impression the trunking
firmware was spliced into existing firmware from some other scanner.
Or the conventional and trunking programmers worked in separate
buildings (countries?) and didn't communicate much.

The scanning itself works marvelously. I'm typically monitoring a
Motorola trunked system, an EDACS trunked system, and a bunch of
conventional channels, simultaneously. The PRO-95 handles that mix of
traffic with hardly a glitch.

One PRO-95 tip involves the SEARCH function, which continuously sweeps
through a range of frequencies. When it finds an active one, it stops
and gives you the option of storing that freq in the first available
channel of any bank you specify. It helps if you keep the lowest
channels of that bank empty so all your "catches" will be grouped
together for review later.

In the trunked talkgroup storage area, I also keep the lowest sub-bank
of each bank empty for the same reason. If an interesting group that I
didn't know about comes on the air, I can use a quick button push to
store it at the bottom of the bank.

There's a bug I encounter when scanning a trunked Motorola UHF low
band system. When I turn another bank on or off (either my EDACS bank,
or one of my conventional channel banks), the PRO-95 often loses its
ability to trunk the Motorola system. Instead, the scan keeps stopping
on the control channel as if it were a conventional channel. The cure
is to press MANUAL then SCAN.

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Paul Hirose
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Over all I think it is a great buy @ 129.00 I bought 2 of them last
week . No digital is the only fall back but there is plenty out there
to hear for fun.