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PRO-95 User Reviews
Added: December 29th 2003
Reviewer: Greg
Score: 5 stars
Hits: 4108
I bought a Pro-95 a few months ago. For the most part it’s a great scanner. I was looking for something that did trunking, and was leaning mostly towards a hand held unit. I mostly use it for trunking systems, as I have other equipment for the other bands. The Pro-95 receives on 4 public service bands, 6 HAM bands, the marine band, the air band, and the CB band. (I did like the fact it received on the CB band and 220 HAM band, a feature left out on many scanners.) The small rubber duck antenna that comes with the scanner performs fairly well. It has a BNC connector for an external antenna, however turning on the built-in attenuator is a must when using an external antenna. Overall, a pretty good scanner, especially for the price I got it at, $150.
Posted by cbscanman15 on 2005-12-28 18:49:01
My Score: 2 stars
please guys and girls i cant belive you are giving the pro-95 this much credit this scanner is junkee the air bands sound like one big plane the audio sucks in it and the complecations of the scanner is overwelming it is very hard to work the scanner and program,at the time i was a rookie in scanning and my local radioshack dealer said it was a begginer scanner i highly disagree,PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR RADIOSHACK THEY HAVE NO CLUE ON HOW A RADIO WORKS AND DONT HAVE A CLUE ON HOW "THEIR" PRODUCT WORKS!!!!!! I RATE THIS SCANNER A D+
Posted by CLB on 2005-04-09 22:15:55
My Score: 4.5 stars
I actually traded in a Bearcat handheld and $70 at a local pawn shop for my Pro-95, practically new and programed, in the box, with all manuals and printouts for my area. This is my 1st trunking scanner, however I use it mainly to monitor everything but the trunked frequencies. There's just not that much going on around here that interests me concerning that. Reception is great on all bands with the stock antenna, trunked or not. Maybe the previous poster had a defective unit...I work at KCHS, and can recieve all aircraft transmissions crystal clear, even when I'm at home. Reception is good enough to actually do some body blocking directional finding of distant VOR signal codes, and ELT locating (which I have used this scanner for, and found the downed aircraft). The alpha-tagging is great. I'll never own another scanner that doesn't have this feature. 1000 channels, I still have 800 left to fill. All in all, I am extremely pleased with this scanner. Like my wrist watch, palm pilot and car keys, this thing is with me all the time. The only reason I don't give it a 10....the manual is absolutely horrible. Other than that, if I hadn't paid $70 for the thing, I would have gladly paid the MSRP and still be just as happy.
Posted by Anonymous on 2005-02-23 17:27:24
My Score: 2 stars
I've had the Pro95, took it back to Radio Shack, what the problem is, the AM Aircraft Band sounds like FM white noise, and for those of us who enjoy monitoring the Aviation band I dont suggest buying this radio, because it sucks royally, when you have FM White Noise in the Aviation Frequencies it wont pick up Aircraft worth a darn. Seems they didnt make Aviation Monitoring a Priority, other than that, its good for everything else.
Posted by Scannerhead1983 on 2004-12-21 03:10:13
My Score: 5 stars
the pro 95 is an excellent scanner, Just upgraded from a pro-94 a month ago. Nice features like text tagging for freqs and talk group id's. just wish they would have added a ctcss board on it to filter out unwanted agencys/users in conventional mode. All in all though I give the scanner 2 thumbs up.
Posted by stevepro95 on 2004-09-21 23:54:44
My Score: 5 stars
The pro-95 is a good scanner and i got it for $150.00 at Radio Shack on the 9/16/04 i have had about 10 or 12 scanner in my life time. This is the first dual trunking scanner i have very owned. And am have a hard time understanding the trunking part of the scanner (help) If there is anyone in the Oaklahoma City area i am all ways looking for frequencys so if you know of any good one to listen to please let me know. I am wanting to join a scanner club and any info would be be nice thanks Steve.
Posted by stevepro95 on 2004-09-21 23:52:10
My Score: 5 stars
The pro-95 is a good scanner and i got it for $150.00 at Radio Shack on the 9/16/04 i have had about 10 or 12 scanner in my life time. This is the first dual trunking scanner i have very owned. And am have a hard time understanding the trunking part of the scanner (help) If there is anyone in the Oaklahoma City area i am all ways looking for frequencys so if you now of any good one to listen to please let me know. I am wanting to join a scanner club and info would be be nice. thanks Steve.
Added: June 10th 2005
Reviewer: Cory W.
Score: 5 stars
Hits: 125
Radio Shack's Pro-95 Dual Trunking Handheld scanner is Super! I paid $200 august 2003, i originally bought one in 2002 but it malfunctioned (my fault) and i had to get a new one. I love that this scanner has the Alph-Text tags so you know what you are listening to instead of having to go through a list of freqencies to know who is talking. Another excellent feature is the 1000 channel storage...enough free channels for anything i want to program. Very nice design, decent battery life, has tons and tons of features. My second scanner, i originally bought a Pro-42 off ebay used, this is WAY more high-tech. I would recommend this to all for the price. Once I get a job i plan on upgrading to the Pro-96 probably, but for less than half the cost of the 96 this has a lot of the same great features for a fraction of the cost. I would recommend this to all, excellnt price for an excellent product. Im sure its about $100-$150ish now that it isnt the newest RS Model.
Added: May 8th 2005
Reviewer: Bruce
Score: 5 stars
Hits: 133
I purchased the Pro-95 in December 04, for $149.00-on sale at RS. It was the first Trunked Radio Scanner I have owned, and I must say, I am impressed! Learning curve was steep and at times frustrating. I agree with another reviewer about the owner's manual-it is pathetic and needs to be rewritten. The text tags are great, as is the ability to store 1000 channels. I've found reception in the Salem, OR./Portland,OR. area to be exceptional, except for the CB channels. For some reason, even close to I-5, I do not receive a lot of CB radio traffic, which seems odd, as I-5 gets so much truck traffic. Having owned this scanner for over 5 months now, I wouldn't trade it for anything. It is by far the best scanner I have ever owned and I use it every day. Mr.Barbecue, Salem, OR.
Win95 comments
User: hiberdiber Rating: 10 December 3, 2003
User's Average Rating: 10.0 # of Ratings: 1
This FREE programs has saved me countless hours of programing and researching for frequencies. I bought the 20-289 cable at Radio Shack for $19.99 plus tax. Useing the software I can now program in the blocked military and other freqs which is great since I live near a Air Force/National Guard/USCG base. THANKS SO MUCH.
User: ripman Rating: 10 November 14, 2003
User's Average Rating: 10.0 # of Ratings: 1
i love it.makes t so much easier,thank you,thankyou
User: ken101 Rating: 10 July 4, 2003
User's Average Rating: 10.0 # of Ratings: 1
Works great and its freeware.
User: unitcharlie Rating: 10 March 11, 2003
User's Average Rating: 10.0 # of Ratings: 1
a required resource for the serious scanner listener on the go....