[TrunkCom] New Pro-95s and any impending switch to Digital

Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:00:00 -0400

The Pro-96 will be of no use to you when the SA system is installed. I
just talked to several city officials I know down there and they are
going to an EDACS ProVoice digital system. It is proprietary and nont-
Project 25 compatiable. Sorry when they switch over you will not be able
to monitor the system on any scanner and I doubt at this point we will
see one that can handle ProVoice in the near future. Should have held on
to your Pro-95. 

And as for the other question yes the 96 will handle 9.6kb trunk control
channels which will let you listen to the Project-25 trunk systems. So
you will be able to monitor that and the Motorola ASTRO IMBE digital
systems using the Pro-96 and the new Uniden 296/796 scanners. We will
have the new Pro-96 in our hands abt Tuesday or Wednesday and maybe have
some first impressions shortly after that.

If you want a more detailed description visit Lindsay Blanton's website
at
http://www.trunkedradio.net/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=3 .
This website has the best trunking info on the net period. No one else
comes close.

73 all and good hunting from the world of fall colors -- Brasstown, NC.

Larry Van Horn, N5FPW
ATC (AW)      USN (Ret)
Monitoring Times Magazine Assistant Editor
MT Milcom/Fed File Columnist/WUN Mil/Gov Columnist
Grove Enterprises Technical Support Department
Telephone: V-828-837-9200/F-828-837-2216/800-438-8155

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Mote
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:26 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TrunkCom] New Pro-95s and any impending switch to Digital

I really don't know.  That's what I was asking the lady at Radio Shack 
and she didn't know anything about the Pro-96.  At this point, I'm just 
happy to be rid of an otherwise good receiver that would have been 
useless to me within a few weeks or months.  I've now gone back to my 
Bearcat which, for [1] NOAA weather and [2] Texas Highway Patrol, works 
just as well as the Pro-95.
;-)
Tom

Donald wrote:

>Will the Pro 96 do 9600 Control Channel Trunking?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Mote [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:07 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [TrunkCom] New Pro-95s and any impending switch to Digital
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>Even though I knew that San Antonio would eventually switch to an all 
>digital system, I foolishly purchased a Radio Shack Pro-95 almost three

>months ago.  Yesterday, after reading a few references to the 
>anticipated Pro-96, I asked my RS counter person if she knew anything 
>about the Pro-96.  She didn't but asked why.  When I told her that San 
>Antonio is now testing the new digital trunking system and that I
wished 
>I had never bought the Pro-95, she assured me that, if it had been 
>purchased within the past three months, I could bring it back and 
>exchange it toward some other RS product.  It turned out that I was
just 
>a few days within that time limit and, since the Pro-96 is not yet 
>available here, I now have the new GPS receiver that I had intended to 
>purchase.
>
>;-)
>Tom Mote
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