Pro-92

PRO-92 User Reviews

Added: August 15th 2002
Reviewer: Jack Phelan
Score: 4 stars
Hits: 3329

Overall a pretty nice scanner & works as it should. When programming EDACS make certain you start on channel 01 and not (default) 00. I spent many hours trying to figure that out. (It is in the manual, but not underlined or in bold type.) I would prefer to see an easier manual with the author being a novice rather than an engineer type. Unlike many scanners that put talk groups in separate banks, this baby puts 100 in a row and each must be locked out. (as oposed to locking out a sub group - like the sheriff or the medical banks) Sensitivity is fairly good. Volume is OK, and things work as they should. By all means get rechargeable batteries. A lot bang for the buck.

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Posted by ocn29rsc on 2004-06-16 19:52:23
My Score: 1.5 stars

I've owned a pro92 for close to 4 years or so, and pretty munch hands down stinks!!!! I've programed other trunking scanners for friends and was much more impressed with what they had than mine. The worst of all I payed more.

Sesitivity isn't that well either, and unless you use super high capcity batteries very limited play time. I eventually broke down and bought a Motorola MTX B3 and then a B7, which I still have today and is great.

Recently bought bearcats bc785D and super luck with it.

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Posted by BillTheCat on 2002-12-12 18:15:02
My Score: 5 stars

I've had a Pro-92 for a couple of years and am always happy with its capabilities. It works as advertised and its sensitivity seems to be very good for a hand-held unit. Definitely get Win92 to program it. The only complaint I've got is that I can't set the STEP rates for user defined PSR search groups to something I'd like -- you must use one of its defined defaults. Not a real problem but since I know that I don't need more than 250KHz for a particular area I can't set it for that. The Win92 will also let you set the back-light to a much longer time.

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Posted by MetroBase on 2002-12-09 16:06:37
My Score: 5 stars

I own several trunking scanners and the PRO 92 is my favorite. I have the original Japaness make, w/ software ver. 1.0. I'm in NYC and it does not suffer from any plaques discribe on most web-sites. If your lucky to find one Radio Shack is clearing them out for a mere $149.00 and that might get reduced as well. Thanks

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Posted by lou99 on 2002-10-23 18:55:56
My Score: 4 stars

The Pro-92A ia one of the best HH I've owned. I've seen the various complaints about the 92, and mine doesn't suffer from most of them. I have no coplaints.

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Posted by Ed-N2QBZ on 2002-10-22 23:03:34
My Score: 3.5 stars

The Pro-92 and the Pro-2067 mobile counterpart are decent scanners, but fall a bit short of being the ultimate scanner for a few reasons.

Negatives

• Neither the 92 or 2067 follow a narrowband EDACS system, used by a few municipalities.

Audio from an external speaker on the Pro-92 is reduced by internal circuitry. Using a lapel speaker in a high noise environment doesn't help much.

• PL/DPL decode only works in scan mode. Meaning you can't leave the scanner on one channel and only have it receive the

desired PL or DPL.

• Neither version automatically goes into scan on power up, you must press the scan button.
• Keyboard is not lit for nighttime operation, or mobile use.
• The alpha display should be a few characters longer.

Positives

• Steerable priority - select any channel as the priority, not just channel 1.
• Excellent PL/DPL decoder is very fast. Great for identifying new tones. But scanner must be set for either PL or

DPL decode and won't detect the tone if it is the other mode.

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Posted by Anonymous on 2002-08-17 19:03:53
My Score: 5 stars

I had good service from my scanner. Greg

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Added: January 16th 2004
Reviewer: John Croll
Score: 5 stars
Hits: 503

Lotta bang for a reasonable buck. By all means, get the programmer cable and the Win92 freeware application. Also, tapping the discriminator is not too hard, but finding a suitable location for a 1/8 female jack to mount to was. I recommend an open-type jack mounted centered to and just exactly above the belt clip on the back. (oops- a review with a mod- sorry)

BC245XLT vs PRO 92

Added: November 30th 2002
Reviewer: Don Schrecker
Score: 5 stars
Hits: 2700

I've got both and according to the reviews I've seen the Bearcat was supposed to be more sensitive. I can tell no difference in either scanner. Both pick up extremely well and equal. As for which is the best ,it comes down to what features you would rather have. The Radio Shack is harder to program off the keypad but there are programs to make it a snap to do on the computer. The Bearcat is extremely handy if you have a Scancat program. As far as I'm concerned they are both terrific scanners on the Edacs system I am using them for.