[Scan-DC] Radio Shack PRO-197 - Questions and comments

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On mine the screen indicator does not track manual or common sense.

Get a lower case L for unlocked
Get a flashing lower case L for perm lockout
And get no L indicator for temp lockout


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 11:52 AM
Subject: [Scan-DC] Radio Shack PRO-197 - Questions and comments



First, many thanks to those who gave us the word about the $200-off sale 
price on the PRO-197 (and its portable mate, whatever that is).  I ordered 
one before Xmas and had it shipped to a friend since I was away, and picked 
it up yesterday.  So far, so good, but a couple of questions, if anybody 
else has one.  First, I think that the programming for Montgomery County may 
be out of date, as I don't think it has the four talkgroups that they added 
and those that were reassigned on the fire side - 7-Kilo was one of them, I 
don't recall the other three right now.

Also, I'm betting that the system for Arlington VA is not the "new" one... 
not sure whether I have Arlington activated but haven't heard anything so 
far.

Did anybody else buy one?  Anything to add here?

I suspect that this receiver isn't quite as good as the Uniden radios, was 
hearing some garbles last night... right now I have the back-of-set antenna 
on it in an outside room, with antenna up about 10 inches, it seems to work 
better that way than with the antenna fully extended... no garbles from the 
BC-796 with the same setup on the other side of the wall.

Still playing with it at this point and haven't even tried to determine what 
talkgroups are there and what aren't as far as the Montgomery County system, 
but I'm reasonably happy with it so far, especially for the price!

Audio quality is reasonable with the internal speaker.

Stand by for more as I wring it out!

Regards,

Doug

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