Damn what a day! I decided to get another scanner as it comes in so handy at
work I wanted an extra in case one dies. Looked at Ebay for a while, used
95's were going for too close to the cost new. I had meant to buy another 95
when they were closing them out, never got around to it, you know how that
goes. Anyway finally went to RS today bought a 97. It was nice as it's
noticeably smaller than the 95. Tried to program it and problems. It's
almost the same as the 95. Programmed the city, put it in closed mode and
programmed the police talk groups. It would keep stopping on the control
channel, and would pick up all the talk groups, not just the ones I wanted
as is supposed to happen in closed mode. Checked everything according to
instructions, cleared them all, re did it again carefully following the
instructions, same results. It's like it just will not trunk, even though it
says I am programming it in MOT mode which is what they use here. It also
was not showing the talk groups when it would receive. Finally gave up took
it all back to the shack. As expected no one there knew anything about
scanners, they took my word for it that something was wrong, started to get
me another one when I noticed they had a 95 in the case marked "clearance".
I said hey just give me that. It was $80 cheaper, I thought great. Got it
home, Noticed 2 stickers on it saying it had a premium (or something like
that) warranty as it as a return that had been factory serviced. I thought
"oh oh". It programs fine and trunks, BUT reception is ****. I have a RS 800
Mghz. antenna on my old one, tried switching them, still the same, old one
sounds great, new one like ****. Finally took it back with the old one that
works. Sales guy started to try to tell me "maybe it's not the scanner". I
stopped him right there said I figured you would think that, I brought a
working one if you want to hear the difference. They said no. Wanted to give
me another 97 as the 95 was the last one they had, I declined. I'm a little
gun shy now.
So has anyone had any trouble with the new 97's? Think maybe I'll just buy
a Uniden on line somewhere. What a frustrating day!! G
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Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.