Great Ron, go for it! I feel that the more input they get, the
better, long as it's focused on their scanners and accessibility
or universal design, that's terrific! Jim WA6EKS
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Ron Miller <[log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date sent: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:05:36 -0400
>Subject: Re: accessible scanners
>That would be great. I will try to contact them as well and see
if they're
>open to dialoguing with me as well.
>Jim, you've made some neat connections here.
>Ron Miller
>-----Original Message-----
>From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On Behalf Of Jim Gammon
>Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:26 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: accessible scanners
>Ron, almost positive that the new Whistler scanner, not the
repackaged
>version of the PSR500, will do P25 phase 2 if that's what you
need. Jim
>WA6EKS
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Miller
>Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:03 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: accessible scanners
>Hi,
>There are a number of things you can do with the PSR-500 and
PSREdit.
>As Colin mentioned, you can purchase an annual subscription to
Radio
>Reference and use the download facility in PSREdit to configure
your
>PSR-500. I have traveled two and three times a month in the past
few years
>and this has been great for me, allowing me to construct a
profile for a
>city before I traveled to it, without taking hours to do so.
>PSREdit also includes a radio control app which has been very
educational to
>me. I offered to show this to anyone who was at the summer
conventions, but
>only got to meet with two people. Using the PSREdit's radio
control app and
>a Braille display, one can actually use the JAWS cursor to view
the
>scanner's multi-line display output, in Braille, in realtime.
This has been
>great, and useful for me to determine things such as, which
spectrum sweeper
>band segments are active, what service search is running and for
working my
>way through the radio's menus, though I haven't done much of
this.
>PSREdit makes it very easy to set up the scanner's V-Scanner
folders to
>one's liking. The V-Scanner folders are really useful. They
allow you to
>store 20 complete profiles in scanner memory and switch between
them at
>will. This lets you change your scanner's frequency/system
load-out as your
>location, or situation changes. For example, I have a profile
which I've
>created that is customized for use at home in Tarpon Springs and
at work in
>St. Petersburg. It has Tarpon Springs talk groups and St. Pete
talk groups,
>as well as our county FD/EMS Talk groups. Another profile
assigns a scan
>list to each city in Pinellas county, so I can turn each city's
talk groups
>on and off as I move around the county. I have a profile for
Tampa and
>Hillsboro county (immediately to the east of me. Yet another
contains Coast
>Guard and other Fed freqs/systems I might want in case of a
maritime
>incident, drug enforcement activity, etc. I'm also working on
another
>profile which will let me listen to the new P25 system they've
implemented
>at Cape Canaveral and surrounding facilities and installations on
the
>Florida east coast, and, finally, I'm slowly working on a profile
for the US
>DoD nationwide P25 trunk system, which is continuing to tie ever
more bases
>and facilities together.
>My only complaint about the PSR500 is that it doesn't receive P25
phase II
>audio (which is not the scanner's fault since it was released
prior to
>implementation of this mode and GRE ceased production before
providing a
>firmware update which might have added this capability).
>73,
>Ron Miller
>-----Original Message-----
>From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On Behalf Of Jim Gammon
>Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 10:32 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: accessible scanners
>Matthew, I could never program it manually. Perhaps Ron or
others on the
>list have done so. The only way I have done it is to get a file
of local
>trunked and conventional frequencies from a ham friend then use
PSR Edit to
>upload said file to the scanner. That is why I so much want
Whistler to
>take seriously suggestions we provide about making their new
scanners
>accessible. I think anyone on this list who has one or intends
to get one
>of the newer scanners should give them input long as it's
constructive and
>not just critical and also focuses on just making their scanners
accessible.
>Jim WA6EKS
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>From: Matthew Chao <[log in to unmask]
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Date sent: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:20:11 -0400
>>Subject: Re: accessible scanners
>>How easy is it to program out of the box?--Matt, N1IBB.
>>At 05:23 PM 8/14/2014, you wrote:
>>>I highly recommend the PSR-500...on tests with very high end test
>equipment
>>>the GRE PSR-500 has measurably better receiver sensativity.
>>>The audio is excellent as well and very easy to hear even in
>noisy
>>>environments.
>>>73
>>>Colin, V A6BKX
>>>--------------------------------------------------
>>>From: "Matthew Chao" <[log in to unmask]
>>>Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:43 PM
>>>To: <[log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: Re: accessible scanners
>>>> Which one would you guys recommend: the bcd396, or this
>one?--Matt,
>>>> N1IBB.
>>>> At 02:33 PM 8/14/2014, you wrote:
>>>>>Russ, It's a handheld scanner. Jim WA6EKS
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>From: Russ Kiehne <[log in to unmask]
>>>>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>>Date sent: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:37:24 -0700
>>>>>>Subject: Re: accessible scanners
>>>>>> Is the psr500 a base or handheld scanner?
>>>>>>On 8/14/2014 8:27 AM, Ron Miller wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi ,
>>>>>>> Yes it does decode P25.
>>>>>>> Also, Jim, I am most definitely not saying that we should
>>>>>discourage Whistle=
>>>>>>> r from designing accessibility features into their scanner
>>>>>receivers. Quite t=
>>>>>>> he contrary, I am all for it. In fact, I had begun a dialog
>>>>>with the folks a=
>>>>>>> t GRE America on this very subject.
>>>>>>> The intent of my post was simply to respond to a previous
>>>>>message about Whis=
>>>>>>> tler's current scanner line and to say that I'm successfully
>>>>>using the PSR-5=
>>>>>>> 00 along with PSREdit and the Whistler version of this scanner
>>>>>should be equ=
>>>>>>> ally usable.
>>>>>>> BTW, Russ, if we can work out a time, I would be glad to chat
>>>>>with you about=
>>>>>>> how I use PSREdit.
>>>>>>> 73,
>>>>>>> Ron Miller
>>>>>>> N6MSA
>>>>>>> Ron Miller
>>>>>>>> On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Russ Kiehne <[log in to unmask]
>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>> =20
>>>>>>>> Does the psr500 do p25?
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