[ScanIndiana] Problems with the Pro-96

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The Ohio MARCS system works great on mine...no
problems at all...

Matt Roberts
Cleveland, OH

--- Mark Meece <radioscan@siscom.net> wrote:
> I thought I had better pass this along to the list
> before too many of these units make it to the
> public.
> 
> Several of our MONIX club members here in the
> Cincinnati area managed to get the Pro-96 shipped
> to them last week only to find out that the unit
> will not work
> on multisite systems that are simulcasting such as
> the
> new Hamilton County (Ohio) system that went fully
> on line here in July. It is a Motorola Astro 9600
> baud system
> that is running from six transmitter sites. They are
> also simulcasting
> to VHF Low band because they have not found a way to
> tone out
> (Page) departments using the system. Many fire
> members throughout
> Hamilton County still use Plectrons to tone out to.
> Multisite systems that
> simulcast are using the QPSK-C modulation and
> because of that the
> Pro-96 will not work with those systems. The first
> half of the first word
> of a conversation is briefly heard and then fades to
> nothing.
> 
> The Pro-96 will not work on Phase II systems either.
> 
> The Phase II system is not out yet and uses 6.25 kHz
> bandwidth (maybe
> voice over IP version down the pike). there are no
> Phase II systems on the
> air within the USA as of yet. However, systems like
> the Ohio MARCS which is
> currently being installed will eventually become
> Phase II.
> 
> 
> Hopefully this is firmware fixable and Radio Shack
> will get on the
> all with GRE to correct it.
> 
> Otherwise the radio works great. We got a
> demonstration of it
> at our meeting this past Saturday evening. We were
> all impressed
> with the Virtual Memory feature will take scanning
> to a higher level.
> Also the CTCSS/DCS capture is the fastest yet. Far
> better than the
> pitifully slow 780/785D/250D.
> 
> Bottom line is - if you do not have a 9600 baud
> system that is multisite/
> simulcast then you have nothing to worry about and
> the radio will 
> perform fine.
> If you are near or want to listen to a system that
> is 
> multisite/simulcast then I
> suggest waiting for an updated version of the
> Pro-96.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark - N8ICW
> MONIX HQ
> http://www.siscom.net/~mmeece/monix.html
> 
> 
> 
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