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

[Mike Vander Veer]

Jeff, I have a P96 file that contains the Eastern Wayne system.  Is that the 
one you're talking about?

Mike
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From: "Jeff Kenyon" <at649 at tcnet.org>
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Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 7:51 PM
Subject: [TrunkCom] The Pro-96 and programming it by hand


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> 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.
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