[TrunkCom] The Pro-96 and programming it by hand

[Jeff Kenyon]

Hi everyone, and happy holidays to you all.  For Christmas one of my gifts 
included the Pro-96 here, and so far I am very impressed with it, but have 
yet to figure it all out, but that of course takes time.
    I was delighted to know that here in Michigan where I live when I got it 
out of the box there are already MPSCS digital trunked stuff programmed into 
the banks.  I also was impressed with the fact that the regular batteries 
that came with the unit lasted as long as they have here, but I am charging 
the unit now.  I just have a question though on programming it.  Yesterday 
when I went to Radio Shack to get the charger and computer connecter the 
lady at the store said that I would have to program each bank or folder in 
in a certain order, and she seemed to think that the digital part was 
missing for our local system which is Astro 3600 but potentially will be 
upgraded to 9600 with it being right around a lot of other 9600 BAUD systems 
like the city of Detroit and Wayne County.  I am just wondering if someone 
could help me with programming this by hand, because I've had no luck with 
conventional or trunked stuff, and I asked for and got recommendations on 
this scanner because someone said that it was user friendly for someone who 
is blind.  Any information would be helpful and thanks in advance.