PSR-300/400 Operating Tips

This article applies to the following scanners:

• GRE PSR-300
• GRE PSR-400
• RS Pro-163
• RS Pro-164

Please add any additional tips below. If a tip is specific to a particular scanner, please be sure to specify this in the explanation

• Battery Voltage - PGM, F+ENT, Manual to exit.
• Spectrum Sweeper - Press and hold The scan/spectrum sweeper key. To select public service sweep press F+Scan/spectrum sweeper key. Press the number to activate/de-activate band.
• Edit Welcome Message - PGM, F+Text, Enter text for 1st line, "ENT", 2nd line, "ENT", 3rd line, "ENT", 4th line, "ENT" <to exit>.
• Edit Bank Tag - PGM, Func+<bank number>, TEXT, enter text, ENT to save and exit.
• Backlight Settings - Turn radio on, press the light button during the "welcome" message, press up/down to change time in seconds.
• Infinite Backlight - Press and hold the light button until beep in scan, manual, sweep, or search.
• To turn Global attenuation on and off - F+ATT.
• Load Pre-programmed frequencies - Tun radio on, press PGM, 1 ENT, or any other key to exit. <Note: Will overwrite first three banks>.
• Keytone on/off - Press 1 to turn keytone on, or 2 to tun it off, during the welocome message.
• Review Lockouts - Press MAN, F+L/OUT. Repeate to see next L/O.
• Set WX FIPS Codes - Press WX, F+PGM, enter FIPS, press ENT. F+CL to delete FIPS.
• Program Motorola fleet maps - PGM Trunk, F+arrow up/down to select bank, F+8, enter code pressing ENT after each size code for all 8 blocks.
• Talkgroup Delay - Pess MAN, F+up/down arrow to select bank, F+TRUNK, F+./Delay, up/down arrow to select time in seconds, ENT to save.
• Re-initialize radio <and all memory> - Press 0, 1, ENT, during welcome message.
• Rebanding now supported in CPU Firmware 1.6 and later. Software required to set the trunking tables.

Setting Custom Tables for rebanded 800MHz systems

The following section explains how to set the custom tables for rebanded Motorola 3600bps systems using PSREdit300.

• Start PSREdit300.
• Download your current configuration from your scanner.
• Switch to the Scanning Banks Tab
• Use the bank selector to switch to the rebanded bank.
• In the 800MHz system type area, change the pulldown box from standard to "Multi-Tables"
• Click on the "Edit Tables" button.
• Click on the "800 Rebanded" button.
• Click on "Apply"
• Repeat from the Switch to bank step for eash bank with a rebanded system.
• Upload the new configuration to your scanner.

Your scanner should now track the rebanded system correctly.