[Scan-DC] PRO-197 Update

Thu Feb 19 11:45:24 EST 2009

Hey Doug and all,

No need to summarize since the whole review, in fact, most all our MT 
reviews are online at the MT website. You can see the 396 review at
http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/mtbcd396t.pdf

We post our reviews and some other select items such as our annual airshow 
guide, NASA freq guide, etc as a free service to the radio hobby community. 
The MT website has lots of goodies and if you are a reader or subscriber, we 
have a lot more behind the firewall in the MT readers only portion of the 
website.

73 de Larry

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
Brasstown, NC USA
MT Assistant/Review Editor
Milcom/What's New Columnist
Milcom Monitoring Post at
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Kitchener" <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] PRO-197 Update

Hey Larry, when you have a chance, could you summarize here for us the 
gripes from your 396 review?  I'm curious... thanks!

I have noticed a tendency to push the Menu or Func buttons when picking it 
up, causing it to boop and make me wonder what I've done... and I don't care 
for the shifting between ID Scan and ID Search by hitting the Search key - 
have made it change modes when I didn't want it to by trying to make it go 
on when it's stopped.  The whole "hold down Func and do something else" 
routine is pretty awkward, for that matter... but I'm not sure of a better 
way to do it - the price we pay for a small radio, I guess.

Also, for the record, I don't like the concentric volume and squelch 
controls that the desktop radios have, and I'd settle for them being a 
little bigger and having an internal 115VAC power supply rather than a 
"brick" - baah!  :)

Regards,

Doug

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> From: n5fpw at brmemc.net
> To: w4jecom at w4je.com; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:28:57 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] PRO-197 Update
>
> The new BC396XT does have the CC DND function. In fact, we got the CC DND
> function in one of the 396T updates. I have a 396XT in hand even as we 
> speak
> and working on a review of Monitoring Times. On first blush, loks like 
> they
> took care of some of my complaints in my 396 review with this rig. Humm
> might have to look at upgrading. ;-)))
>
> 73 de Larry
>
> Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
> Brasstown, NC USA
> MT Assistant/Review Editor
> Milcom/What's New Columnist
> Milcom Monitoring Post at
> http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Clegg"
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] PRO-197 Update
>
>
>> Whoa, just noticed the 396XT. That looks sweet. Among the cool new
>> features,
>> I sure hope it supports CC Do Not Disturb. If it does, I will be ordering
>> one ASAP. That was the main thing keeping me back from buying a 396. My
>> 996
>> in the car has it, and I love it.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From:
>> To:
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] PRO-197 Update
>>
>>
>>> Before you jump on anything, I'd do a little homework in the RR wiki, 
>>> and
>>> talk to some users. See if the scanner matches your needs. The 2096 (and
>>> 96) cannot do I-Calls, nor can it log and record while scanning. It just
>>> isn't in the firmware. It doesn't do UHF milair out of the box, and even
>>> with mods using Win96, performance can vary very widely.
>>>
>>> 2 things turn me off on the GRE scanners, frankly - their too-hot front
>>> end (which means that overloading issues can be a problem), and I've 
>>> seen
>>> 2 or 3 reports on RR that these scanners are deaf as a stone on milair.
>>> Even if you fool around with milair on occasion (I'm nowhere near as
>>> serious as those guys in the Maryland thread - even if I could have an
>>> outside antenna...) to me that's a real pain.
>>>
>>> Keep in mind the 396XT should be out in the next month or two.
>>>
>>> Much to consider 73 Mike
>>>
>>> links editor,Capitol Hill Monitors
>>> Utility Monitoring Central
>>> Wiki Administrator, HF Forum moderator, Radioreference.Com
>>>
>>> --- b_thom at juno.com wrote:
>>>
>>> From: b_thom at juno.com
>>> To: oldsdoug at hotmail.com,Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] PRO-197 Update
>>> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:28:50 -0500
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:15:55 -0500  writes:
>>>>
>>>> Very pleased with the RS PRO-197 digiscanner that I got just after
>>>> Xmas... ordered it when they had the $200-off sale that ran through
>>>> December 24...
>>>
>>>
>>> More than you would have liked, say a PRO-96? I think that's the 
>>> handheld
>>> version of the PRO-2096, on clearance at RS.
>>> Just wondering. I am thinking of going digital, at last.
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