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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