[Scan-DC] programming for Inauguration day

[ka3jjz at netscape.com]

With another Inauguration just a scant month or so away, (and the massive interest the news media has described) I thought it might be useful - particularly for the newcomers among us - to review a few things for programming the digital scanners for this event. A digital scanner will be needed to copy the Metro PD 400 Mhz system - a Pro-97 or similar analog trunktracker won't cut it. 

The various digital scanners are listed here (NOTE: anything in blue or underlined is a link)

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Category:Digital_Scanners

A newsletter was published way back in 2005 (seems like a long time ago, doesn't it) with a ton of frequencies, much of which is still probably good. It's available in PDF format from;

http://henney.com/chm/chm.htm

We have a wiki article which details how to program the Uniden and RS scanners. Unfortunately this article was written before the coming of the GRE PSR-500 and 600 (not to mention the PRO-197 and PRO-106), so details for these scanners are badly needed 

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Programming_the_MPDC_in_Digital_Scanners

How to get files for your scanner is a very common question. That is answered here;

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Scanner_Programming_FAQ

Currently we could use details for ARC996, ProScan, Trunkstar XLT and Elite, PSREdit500, Win500 and ARC500.

We'll repeat this again as we get closer to the date.  73 Mike

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