system: You are Tony Szablowski, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gary Saffer about "THE NEW RELM SCANNER".

They wrote:
-> TS>So, there's no aplhanumeric of any kind for, say.. programming in
-> TS>city name, etc.?
->
-> No. It's not that big a deal, at least to me, but I guess some people
-> really want that.
-> Yeah, it's not bad. If you want to disable the tone for a single
-> channel all you have to do is stop on the channel, enter the
-> programming mode and enter "00" as the tone. Unlike the 760, you
-> TS>Yeah, I hate that when listening to trunked freqs.  Oh well.
->
-> That follows the old Regency pattern. It was one of the bigger
-> annoyances, but all things considered, it's not that bad.
<G>
-> That's what it does, which is a pain. It would have been better if it
-> just locked the programming keys ala the 760. However, if I didn't
-> mention it, in addition to the manual button on the key board, there
-> is a channel selector knob on the top of the radio. This not only
-> selects channels, but during programming can be used to select tone,
-> if you don't have the chart handy.
-> Exactly. For conventional PL, that isn't a problem since I know
-> almost all of the ones that I want, and because of the way most of
-> the regional systems are set up, I can figure out the rest. However,
-> with DPL it's a major problem. However, a friend of mine has a
-> scanner with a tone reader, so he is going to try to research some
-> of the agencies with DPL in this area.
-> I didn't know that Scanner Master listed DPL too. I am going to see
-> what my friend can come up with before I drop the big bucks on a
-> Scanner Master book.
-> There hasn't been much mention of it here, but on the Usenet
-> newsgroups, there is a lot of talk about a Uniden scanner due out in
-> the spring that will supposedly follow Motorola trunking systems.
-> However, I decided I would rather buy this now, and possibly sell it
-> in the spring if the Uniden radio really develops.

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assistant: Well, I like it when my g/f's with me.  She doesn't have to keep asking
me what agency the scanner stopped on. <g>  And it's nice because then
_I_ don't have to remember what freq is for what town, especially when
something happens in a town that I usually don't listen to, I don't have
to remember the freq when searching for it on the scanner.  That's about
all it was meant for anyway, I guess.
Yep. Same with my Uniden.  All ya gotta do is remember the tone ya had
on there before ya wiped it.  No biggie.
You know Gare, while reading your above sentence there, I thought that
it would be nice to write to a major scanner manufacturer and tell him
all the "goodies" a scanner should have.  Then, to have it arrive and
the UPS guy tells me it's for free.  Why?  Because I helped the company
design possibly the best scanner out there.   "Dream on........"  LOL!
My Radio Shack 2032 is capable of programming delay on a channel-channel
basis.  I love it when listening to trunked and "normal" channels.  Oh
well, I guess we can't have everything yet.
That's nice.  Not bad.
Then I would do that and see if he can get you the DPL's on the freq's
you want instead of buying the big Scanner Master book.
Yep.  DPL and CTCCS(sp?) is listed, at least for the one I have that
covers NY\NJ area.
That sounds good.   Boy...you got me thinking about selling my RS2032
and getting one of these badboys. <g>  I've been waiting for a HH with
tone ability ....and now this baby's also got DPL as well!?  Gotta do
it, gotta do it.   <G>
Thanks for the info Gare and good luck with the unit,
Tony