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power supply/cable (a wall wart) and the 12 v.d.c. Nevertheless this review may answer some questions for other hams who are contemplating purchasing the 2096.įor comparison purposes I have owned and/or operated other Radio Shack, ICOM, and Uniden (Bearcat) scanners, most notably the classic PRO-2006 (a nearly perfect receiver!), the ICOM R-2, R-8500 (another nearly perfect receiver), and R-9000, and the Uniden BC-296D (which is a hand held scanner, of course the BC-796D is the base/mobile version).įirst, some of the PRO-2096 good news: no more plastic the all-metal case is back! This product has heft and feels solid. At the time of writing I have used the 2096 for five days, and obviously there is much more to do before a complete evaluation can be produced. This is an “initial impressions” quick review for the PRO-2096 it is not intended to be definitive.
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But if I had to spend the full $499, I'd be buying a BC996 instead. Would I buy it again? At the $399 sale price, yes.
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Win96 software (which also unlocks the mil-band)can download data from, and I just having local frequencies that I can pick up with the telescopic antenna, I have ran out. I'm not sure how many characters it is, but with all the channels I have programmed, it's very difficult to tell some of them apart. Their $150 mobile/base scanners have larger displays. The display is ridiculously small for the amount of information it displays. I've tightened the metal mounting bracket (it doubles as a stand) to the point that I'm afraid of distorting the case, but over a few days, the front still slowly creeps back down to the desktop. Volume knob is inside of squelch knob and they tend to stick to each other. On a 2006/2007 model $500 scanner with this many channels that you have to purchase a $25 cable for, it's simply unforgivable. *NO frequency logging!* this drives me nuts!!! I had an RS handheld scanner from the early 90's (forget the model, but it was one of the cheap ones) and even it was capable of doing this. My issues with it (and the things keeping it from getting a 5) It's a great scanner, lots of functionality, great sound, metal case. I've had this unit for about 30-45 days now. I'm not going to write a lot on this scanner as there are literally hundreds of reviews around the Internet on this very model. They wont last long at this great closeout price. Ask your RS to check avaialbility in other district stores if they dont have one. I have no public safety digital scanning experience, just ham DSTAR, but I think the scanner did a fine job of decoding and reproducing digital voice sigs. I did manage to listen to some digital voice sigs and they sounded OK. Audio and sensitivity seemed fine, using distant ham repeaters on all VHF and UHF bands covered for testing.
I took it apart and the build quality is high. The display is too small, it cannot be computer controlled just programmed from all I can see, but there is a lot to like.
Thge 2096 has its faults, but it is a smoking deal at $160.
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I bought one on Augfor $160! It is odd, different RS stores have different close out prices on the PRO 2096, some are well over $200 but some are $160. Not a great value at $499, but RS is closing them out.
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