Monitoring Reviews: Pro 197

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Whistler Scanners Coming Soon

Here is a sneak peak at what Whistler Group has in store for us on the scanner front.

Whistler Scanner Page

Whistler WS1010 is an analog 200 channel handheld scanner that scans frequencies from 29 to 512 MHz. Seems to be a very basic, no frills analog scanner. Next up is the Whistler WS1025. It is the desktop version of the above WS1010. Again, same frequency coverage, analog only. These 2 seem to be rebadged GRE PSR 100 and PSR 200.

WS1010

WS1025

Next are the new digital trunking scanners. They come in handheld (the WS1040) and the base/mobile scanner (WS1065). You may notice that they look familiar. That's because they are rebadged GRE PSR 500 and PSR 600 radios. Both the 500 and 600 were very good scanners so I would expect that these new Whistler scanners would be much in the same. No hard release date for any of these scanners have been published as of this writing (February 2014).

WS1040

WS1065

I did a How to with the Radio Shack Pro-197 (same as GRE PSR-600 (WS1065)). I also did a review on the PSR-500. They are both very capable scanners with tons of great features. So I look forward to the Whistler branded scanners.

This post on RadioReference.com hints at newer scanners coming down the pipe. The WS1095. That would be the never released PSR-900. So one would assume if that is true they would re-release the PSR-800 with a revised model number. But only time will tell if Whistler will innovate in the radio scanner space. I am glad Uniden keeps the competition after GRE went down. GRE always made great radios. With Whistler in the business now, I hope competition breeds innovation between the two companies.

Check out Whistler's Facebook page for a sneak peak video of the WS1065 in action:

Post by Whistler Group.

Thanks for looking!

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Radio Shack Pro-197 How To Guide Video

How to guide to the Radio Shack Pro-197 Digital Trunking Scanner.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Radio Shack Pro-197 (GRE PSR-600) Picture Review

Below are pictures of the Radio Shack Pro-197 digital scanner. For review information please see my review of the PSR-500 which is basically the same radio, just a different case. The Pro-197 does seem to perform better for VHF-High and 800 MHz reception in my area. But the functions of the Pro-197 (PSR-600) is the same as the PSR-500 (Pro-106). The main difference between the GRE PSR-500 and 600 vs the Pro-197 and 106 is that the GRE PSR models come with programming cables and AC adapters for the handhelds (AC adapters for both 600 and 197) while the Pro models do not.

On to the pictures....

Enjoy!