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Popular Software for RS/Uniden Scanners
When you are a newcomer, and want to use software to program and/or back up the contents of your scanner, the natural question is 'which is the best'? While it's always true that the 'best' software is in the eye of the user, generally speaking there are some packages that are much more popular than others.
Scancat Lite Plus has been visible for awhile now, and it's used in some RS stores to program scanners they sell. However, as documented on several occasions in the various RR forums, it's not the best choice, in most cases. This article lists the most popular packages, by scanner, in use by RR members. In general, the most popular choices tend to support connecting to the RadioReference database and downloading data directly. To enable this function you must have a premium subscription which you can read about in the link.
Those packages that have this ability are shown in bold. If no other packages exist to support this scanner, there will be no entry. Be sure to read the notes at the bottom of each section. For the new GRE Scanners, please see the Popular Software for GRE Scanners article.
[edit] Radio Shack
- PRO-83 RR import is conventional only
- For the PRO-94 listing - only the B version is PC programmable
- PRO-137 is conventional only - no trunking
- PRO-97 and 2055 support available in ARC300 from version 1.05
- ARCxxx products are available from the BuTel homepage. BuTel software is available from Scanner Master.
[edit] Uniden
- Non DMA Scanners
- DMA Scanners
- ScanControl software supports 21 different scanners, all in one program. It has the ability to directly copy/paste data from the database into an editor without an external program such as Excel.
- The UASD (Uniden Advanced System Director) for each scanner is available from the Uniden downloads area.
- ARC software with no link is available from the BuTel homepage. BuTel software is available from Scanner Master.
- The SC230 is a non trunking scanner-only conventional data is supported
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