[TheList] TheList Digest, Vol 21, Issue 16

Mon Jan 17 16:33:49 AEDT 2011

Hi all,

Well I bought a GRE 500 from the US for the P25. Works a treat!!

I have found the GREs more sensitive than Unidens. My analogue one is way better than the Unidens.

Oliver

From: Mike Trump 
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:58 PM
To: thelist at radiowiki.org.nz 
Subject: Re: [TheList] TheList Digest, Vol 21, Issue 16

Mark,
While I applaud your efforts, I personally would not buy one of them "Home Patrol" units.
Sure, it might be OK for a person that wants to get into listening to the Cops and Robbers, that isn't really scanning though.

It just goes to show, how the media in general has painted scanner users, there was even a piece on TV One here last year about a 
"scanner party" that had some young people (students) listening to the cops over some drinks, they never bothered to ask to REAL scanner users.
And the piece was made to give the general public the impression that we are nothing but a bunch of eavsdropping mal-contents, getting into
your cell-phone calls, your cordless phone calls and listening to when you leave your house via the garage door opener.
I'd hate to see real radio listening dumbed down to that level.
A certain degree of the people that you would be selling these radios to, are experienced radio users.

What I had in mind originally, was something like the UBC-996XT made for this side of town. 
As in a fully functional radio that did P25, did trunking and had some means of programming like either an SD card or a USB interface.
True scanning is based upon being able to either automatically or manually scan through the spectrum of the scanner.
Any radio that misses the 75-79MHz band here is not going to sell that well, it will still be used until such time as the P25 comes on board.
I would buy a radio like this (probably even two of them) if they were made available to buy.
A Uniden on-line store would be the best thing for us people down here, purchase over the Net, give your details, get it sent, all done.

Mark,
I'm not having a go at you or Uniden, thanks a million for coming up and putting your spoke in, it is most appreciated.

Cheers,
Mike T.

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