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| − | ==PRO96 Vs. BC250D==
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| − | Added: June 22nd 2004<br>
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| − | Reviewer: Kieran O'Hagan<br>
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| − | Score: 5 stars<br>
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| − | Hits: 1912<br>
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| − | OK, I just purchased the Radio Shack Pro 96. I have owned a BC250D for a little more than a year. There have been
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| − | many questions about which radio to buy, and being single (heh heh), I decided to get both of them. Both radios are
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| − | excellent, and each one has something over the other. The BC250 has plenty of room for alpha tagging; it will display
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| − | both the bank tag and channel tag. During trunking, it will display ID list plus Talkgroup Tag. The Pro 96 will not
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| − | show you the bank tag if you are running CTCSS or DCS; instead of the bank tag, it displays the tone information.
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| − | The Pro 96 does not have ID list tags. The Pro 96 DOES have auto gain for the digital transmissions, and I swear the
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| − | digital is much clearer on the Pro than on the Uniden. In fact, in my opinion, the Pro 96 digital transmissions
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| − | almost sound like analog; they are clear, with little digitizing. The Uniden does LTR, EDACS SCAT, and EDACS Narrow.
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| − | I do have an LTR System nearby, so the Uniden comes in handy for that. I commute between two metro areas, Poughkeepsie
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| − | and White Plains; I visit my family in Pennsylvania, and a friend in Albany. With the Uniden, I have to reprogram it
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| − | for different trips (no biggie, since I have ARC 250). With the Pro 96, I just call up a new V Scanner folder, and
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| − | I'm ready to go. Uniden battery life...the pits. Pro 96? Throw in 4 AA batteries and I'm good to go, plus keep either
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| − | NiMH or regular batteries in the spare holder. Uniden...military UHF aero. Pro 96, you have to get Win96. Here's
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| − | the bottom line...both radios are good at what they were built for. If you need to listen to UHF aero, have an LTR
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| − | trunking system or EDACS SCAT, then get the Uniden. If you just like listening to plain ole shoot em up or burn em
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| − | down Motorola and EDACS public safety, get the Pro 96. Or, if you can, get them both. Above all...have fun! That's
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| − | what the hobby is all about.
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| − | Posted by Anonymous on 2005-06-05 23:56:29<br>
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| − | My Score: 5 Stars<br><br>
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| − | One other big benefit to the PRO-96...
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| − | Its ready for the 800Mhz Rebanding.
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| − | The Win96 program is not needed to
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| − | program the User-Table to whatever
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| − | might be used locally. The Win96
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| − | program will be required to program
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| − | the user Multi-Table, though.
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| − | To-date, the PRO-96 is the only scanner
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| − | on the whole market that allows manually
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| − | configuring 800Mhz Channel-Number tables.
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| − | With, or without the Win96 program.
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| − | Soon alot of Trunk Scanners are going to
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| − | loose their ability to track correctly
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| − | Motorola Trunk Systems in the 800Mhz band.
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| − | EDACS & LTR scanning will not be affected.
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| − | PRO-96 owners, rejoice...
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| − | Posted by jimlawrence on 2004-06-27 12:04:03<br>
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| − | My Score: 5 stars<br>
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| − | Kieran makes some excellent points and he has written an excellent review comparing the two. Let me add just a few
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| − | additional thoughts based on my experience using both radios. If your goal is to monitor UHF milair (225-400 MHz),
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| − | I think the Uniden radio is the one for you. While it is true that using Don Starr's excellent Win96 program will
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| − | open the UHF milair band on the Pro-96, the performance over some of this spectrum has been highly disappointing to
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| − | me. For instance, I prefer monitoring Boston center on 282.2. My Pro-96 is deaf totally on that freq regardless of
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| − | which antenna I use on the radio. However, I have discovered that the Pro-96 does a pretty good job on the milair
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| − | band between 137-144 MHz. So if your listening targets are in that range, you'll be happy with either unit. All my
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| − | local fighter squadrons make use of this range as do some of the tankers. As mentioned before, if your target is an
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| − | LTR system, Uniden is your choice. I've been using my 250D to monitor LTR and once you get the channels figured out
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| − | (no easy task!), the 250D does a fine job on them. If your target is a P-25 digital voice system, I think the
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| − | Pro-96 is the way to go. Its digital decoding feature is far superior to the 250D's. No fidding with voice quality.
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| − | When I want to listen to New Hampshire law enforcement (largely conventional) or federal land mobile, my Pro-96 is
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| − | my choice everytime. And it did a great job for me on the Ohio MARCS, Indiana SAFE-T and other digital trunked systems.
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| − | I'm still working on getting my Pro-96 to track the OPP system (VHF trunked) but this is a liveware problem and not a
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| − | problem with the unit itself. For the record, I've had problems tracking this system with my 250D too but it's
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| − | entirely me and not the hardware. One thing I find totally funky about the Pro-96 is its default and unchangable
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| − | step size between frequencies. It's totally weird to me to see 165.6900 rather than 165.6875 for instance. GRE,
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| − | get hip on this one, please. Yeah yeah...picky picky, I know. It almost makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong??????
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| − | Both radios offer control channel only Motorola system monitoring. I like that a lot. It's a breeze to use when
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| − | traveling in states like Ohio, Indiana and Massachusetts. I find the Pro-96 is a little easier to set up for this
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| − | feature. My thanks to my buddy Ken Windyka for turning me on to that feature. I find my 250D offers superior harmonic
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| − | and image rejection compared to the Pro-96. This may be a factor if you live in a hot RF environment. Don't get me wrong, the Pro-96 isn't bad but the 250D hardly suffers from this at all.
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| − | I think the 250D is a vastly superior search tool to the Pro-96. I love the ability to chain together up to
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| − | 10 search ranges and hunt. The Pro-96 offers just one range at time as far as I can tell. I'm one of those who's
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| − | always relentlessly searching for new active freqs and I think the 250D is much better at that. I've found the Pro-96's
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| − | users manual to be a little more coherent than the 250D's. Not that many of us actually read the things...isn't that
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| − | what the internet is for? Hope that helps. Corrections and advice always appreciated.
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| − | ==ARC250 comments==
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| − | User: ckoetke Rating: 10 November 22, 2004<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 10.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | better than scanstar software. the best interface and very easy to use. i highly recommend this for organizing your trunk banks on the 785D or 250D. has great sorting and cut/paste/move delete capabilities.
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| − | User: webbtown18 Rating: 10 July 26, 2003<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 10.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | Very good program. Easy to use!!!!
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| − | User: iowaboy46 Rating: 9 March 21, 2003<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 9.5 # of Ratings: 2<br>
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| − | Very low learning curve. virtual control is wonderful but needs some work. otherwise I would rate 10.
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| − | ==IDTracker comments==
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| − | User: Vibroplex Rating: 9 January 5, 2006<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | This programs in my humble opinion deserves a 10 - but having never had any program of a ten as a base point it get's a nine. A great program, ease of use and functional.
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| − | User: wbigcount Rating: 8 November 28, 2005<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 8.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | Sometimes when u try to id a talk group and the press ok it goes back to no id on the talk group.
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| − | User: Hir8ed_2 Rating: 9 November 8, 2005<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 2<br>
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| − | I believe this software would work with any Trunking radio, as long as you have VB 6.0 or higher installed in Windows.
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| − | User: monitoringpost Rating: 9 April 15, 2004<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | An excellent utility leaving only the imagination of the user on how one can exploit its many uses. Rated a nine as v2.9.0 is supposedly the last version to support the BC245xlt - hopefully support will be restored and it'll get 10 stars.
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| − | User: pro92b Rating: 10 April 2, 2004<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 10.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | Excellent for identifying unknown talkgroups
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| − | User: mdc76082 Rating: 9 December 21, 2003<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | You all did a good job. Alot of these guys & gals expect too much when it comes to software and instructions. If I can muddle around with it and get the hang of it then any of these prissy prisses should be able to also. And I am by far the smartest guy on the planet. Thanks for the use of the software. - Mike (Springtown TX)
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| − | User: bear105 Rating: 8 September 18, 2003<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 7.0 # of Ratings: 5<br>
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| − | Clean and simple makes it very effective. I would give it a 10, if it would update the ID ALPHA tags on the scanner itself.
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| − | User: b7spectra Rating: 9 May 21, 2003<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | Excellent for capturing audio for those unknown channels/talk groups. Documentation could be better.
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| − | User: N4RVR Rating: 9 February 16, 2003<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | Wish it had help built-in, but for the price, who's complaining? Excellent program that does what it's supposed to with no muss, no fuss. Packs a lot of features and works well with Windows XP. Great resource for those of us who own TrunkTrackers.
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| − | User: jsmcnicol Rating: 1 July 8, 2002<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 1.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | I could never get this working even though all of my other trunking programs worked. Dose NOT work for Pro-1053. Download did not say you had to have the certen scanners listed in the notes.
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| − | User: blantonl Rating: 10 July 6, 2002<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 9.5 # of Ratings: 2<br>
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| − | Outstanding Application!
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| − | ==Radio Manager 2004 comments==
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| − | User: mandlair Rating: 10 November 29, 2003<br>
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| − | User's Average Rating: 10.0 # of Ratings: 1<br>
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| − | EXCELLENT ID TRACKER,VIRTUAL CONTROL, AND SCANNER PROGRAMER,ALL IN ONE WORKS VERY WELL WITH BC250D
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