[Scan-DC] home patrol scanner?

[Larry Van Horn]

My bet is a under $500 street price. ;-)))

As for the unit, yes, simplicity is spiffy. My initial testing of the unit 
is pretty cool. The manuals aren't done yet, but if you have every 
programmed any scanner you don't need one, it is that simple. So folks who 
do not want to become radio engineers (Uniden calls them Bob and Mabel) will 
want to purchase this scanner. There will be additional features for 
advanced users that will be activated in the near future so that power users 
(Uniden calls them Joe) will have some interesting features they will like 
in HomePatrol. On the Friday before the Uniden Open House during our formal 
intro of the product, I had the scanner in my hands about one hour and 
during that time I master the basica operations and menuing system (actually 
it took about 20 minutes). ;-)))

Saturday during the Uniden Open House in Dallas, an 8 year old grandson of 
one of the hobbyists at my table (I was a table host) ;-))), programmed the 
HP scanner for DFW in literally seconds. Yes, Bob and Mabel, it is really 
that easy.

You can read some of my additional thoughts on my personal blog at
http://monitor-post.blogspot.com/2010/06/revolution-in-scanning-is-coming.html

You can get my exclusive HP spec sheet (based on the testing of the unit we 
have in hand) on the Grove Ent website at
http://www.grove-ent.com/homepatrol.html

More to come including a full review in MT soon.

73 de Jefe

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Clegg" <w4jecom at w4je.com>
To: <odyslim at comcast.net>; "Anthony Russell" <russellswim at yahoo.com>
Cc: "SCANDC" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] home patrol scanner?


> Simplicity is good. Not that I can't program my own scanner, but time is
> always an issue, especially when I travel. If I can get a grab-and-go
> scanner that will program itself for whatever area I happen to be in, that
> would be great. I'll definitely investigate this scanner once it's 
> available
> for sale.
>
> How about an office pool for the MSRP? I'll bet $599.
>
> Andy
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: <odyslim at comcast.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 9:42 PM
> To: "Anthony Russell" <russellswim at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "SCANDC" <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] home patrol scanner?
>
>> Yeah, it started a huge pissing contest as some dont like the simplicity.
>> I think its pretty spiffy.
>>
>> Regards, Scott
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Anthony Russell <russellswim at yahoo.com>
>> To: SCANDC <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:13:14 -0000 (UTC)
>> Subject: [Scan-DC] home patrol scanner?
>>
>> is anyone more familiar with this?
>>
>> http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/scanners/0738.html
>>
>> http://www.bearcatwarehouse.com/uniden-home-patrol.aspx
>>
>> zip code ready scanner? is that the only programming needed?
>>
>>
>> thanks.
>> Grant
>>
>>
>>
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