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1. How Do You Program A Pro 106 Scanner Review
2. How Do You Program A Pro 106 Scanner Manual
3. How Do You Program A Pro 106 Scanner Programming Cable

Programming PRO-106My wife bought me a PRO-106 Saturday. I tried using the V-Folder that had the Virginia information and tried scanning Roanoke, but nothing. I started to directly program the system in but the small print and a manual that would not stay open messed me up.I went to Mike's scanner web site and printed the pages for trunking programming and hope this will work.I am going to get the software but will not be able to computer download until I get a cable my friend is going to give me. Unfortunately, he lives in Richmond, but we plan on going to a Fire Expo this coming weekend so I can pick it up then.I read one place that the Roanoke County/City system has been rebanded and would guess that the system information in the V-Folder reflects this, maybe not.Fred Mahone. Win500Unfortunately for Win500, when I installed their demo, I was not able to do anything with it, it was just the screen with no activity possible. I do not know if this was also caused by the problems my computer has or not.

How Do You Program A Pro 106 Scanner Review

In looking at the forums, it appeared to be pretty evenly divided between ARC500 and Win500.Learning software is no big deal to me. I taught myself Eagle to draft schematics and printed circuit boards, and Autocad and Solid Works.

ARC500 will be a walk in the park.I found that, after learning to program programmable logic control devices, the object oriented scanners are very similar. I understand the flow of the objects and their composition. Programming PLC is actually a college course!Fred Mahone. If people know nothing about programming, where are they going to acquire the knowledge to effectively use the scanner? If they don't know the difference between a police dispatch channel and a police TAC channel, how will they know which one to listen to and when.And then there is the time involved in understanding the lingo that that is heard from a scanner. That is more involved than the programming tasks. IMNSHO, people that want to use a scanner like a toaster, will bore very quickly and never be around long enough to start enjoying the hobby.

If people know nothing about programming, where are they going to acquire the knowledge to effectively use the scanner? If they don't know the difference between a police dispatch channel and a police TAC channel, how will they know which one to listen to and when.And then there is the time involved in understanding the lingo that that is heard from a scanner. That is more involved than the programming tasks.

IMNSHO, people that want to use a scanner like a toaster, will bore very quickly and never be around long enough to start enjoying the hobby. While i agree with what you are saying what does any of this have to do with RS updating their V Files?If you spend $400.00 on a scanner you expect the v-files to be up to date.Why do you think the Home Patrol is such a big seller,most people do not want to bother with the programming,why do you think the cell phone apps and all the live feeds are so popular today?Can you imagine buying a Home Patrol for $500.00 entering a ZIP Code and getting nothing?I don't think they would have very many happy customers. I finally bought a -106 last Sunday (2/19) while it was still on special for $349, and am trying to get STARS entered and update the Chesapeake control freqs.

Last night I think I finally got some STARS to stay in but still have trouble getting the rebanded Chesapeake system to stay. Each time I leave that V-folder then come back it reverts back to the old freqs. WTH?!The scanner - PC cable I have when I had my Pro-95 doesn't seem to work for the -106. I thought I would save some $. Will have to get the cable with the driver CD soon. (WHY does every peripheral has to have a driver now?).

How Do You Program A Pro 106 Scanner Manual

Anyway, I have downloaded WIN500; will likely register a bit later but like I did /w the -95, I like to learn how to program manually so that I know how to do away from home on the fly, even though it would be like a big lumbering fly, speed wise for the -106. Wow, what a learning curve!I had deleted the contents of several pre-programmed folders for areas I'll never see in order to free up space to program systems like the Virginia Beach P25 trunked system, the remaining STARS in VA, VIPER in NC and others, but it seems once I delete the contents I can't enter any data. I actually duplicated the contents on one folder to another so I could do some editing there (that's how I got STARS to stay programmed).Anyone /w tips on how to program items onto a now empty v-folder please let me know! I know I'm probably missing something in the manual. RS normally does a very good job /w their manuals in explaining things. Maybe it's that my programming paradigms may not have shifted completely from banks to object scanning.73. I finally bought a -106 last Sunday (2/19) while it was still on special for $349, and am trying to get STARS entered and update the Chesapeake control freqs.

How Do You Program A Pro 106 Scanner Programming Cable

Last night I think I finally got some STARS to stay in but still have trouble getting the rebanded Chesapeake system to stay. Each time I leave that V-folder then come back it reverts back to the old freqs. WTH?!The scanner - PC cable I have when I had my Pro-95 doesn't seem to work for the -106. I thought I would save some $. Will have to get the cable with the driver CD soon. (WHY does every peripheral has to have a driver now?). Anyway, I have downloaded WIN500; will likely register a bit later but like I did /w the -95, I like to learn how to program manually so that I know how to do away from home on the fly, even though it would be like a big lumbering fly, speed wise for the -106.

Wow, what a learning curve!I had deleted the contents of several pre-programmed folders for areas I'll never see in order to free up space to program systems like the Virginia Beach P25 trunked system, the remaining STARS in VA, VIPER in NC and others, but it seems once I delete the contents I can't enter any data. I actually duplicated the contents on one folder to another so I could do some editing there (that's how I got STARS to stay programmed).Anyone /w tips on how to program items onto a now empty v-folder please let me know! I know I'm probably missing something in the manual. RS normally does a very good job /w their manuals in explaining things. Maybe it's that my programming paradigms may not have shifted completely from banks to object scanning.73.