GRE PSR-300 Scanner
Well….. I am waiting anxiously the arrival of the new scanner. I ordered Monday from Scannermaster.com (orders before 3pm ship the same day). It is Wednesday and UPS has it listed as out for delivery. I will be doing hopefully a long and thorough series of articles on the scanner in coming weeks. First up though I thought I would give a run down of the specs in this post. Also, I should note that when I’ve gone through automated “pick a scanner for your location” wizards they seem to have always steered me towards digital systems. I researched and found no immediate plans to change to digital systems locally soon. Probably the only close digital system I know of is the Great Smokies National Park. However, given the price difference for getting a digital scanner it really didn’t seem worth it on the thought that maybe in a year or two some agencies might go digital. I suspect they will eventually (although the county wide agencies prefer the lower VHF range to get better mountain coverage – most other systems I”ve seen are higher up in the UHF range.) So…. the upcoming reviews and other in depth articles will not come all at once. I will likely do a first impressions post, but I will probably schedule posts in advance so even if I write that tomorrow I think that may not be published for a couple of weeks at least. In other words…. the series will be forthcoming, but I don’t expect to dump it out all at once.
I also should note a bit of an addition to the pages. I’ve started a 2 way radios page and subpages for (currently) FRS, GMRS and MURS band radios…. I hope to add even more detail in the future as well as other radio band info.
Now without further ado… here are the official specs of the GRE PSR-300. The manual is available here if you need it.
Features
– Triple Trunking Handheld Scanner
– Motorola Analog, EDACS, LTR
– 1,000 CH / 1,500 TGID
– CTCSS / DCS
– 20dB attenuator
– SAME (FIPS) / Weather alert
– Skywarn
– Spectrum Sweeper
– 4×16 Alphanumeric Display
– Signal strength meter
– Backlit Keypad and Display
– PC Programmable
– Field Upgradeable Firmware
– And MORE!
All the above and below copied from GRE’s page on the product at this link.
1. Frequency range:
VHF Low 25.00000 – 54.00000 MHz.
VHF Aircraft 108.00000 – 136.99166 MHz
VHF High 137.00000 – 174.00000 MHz
216.00250 – 299.93750 MHz
UHF Low/T 300.00000 – 512.00000 MHz
UHF High 764.00000 – 960.00000 MHz
1240.00000 – 1300.0000 MHz
Except cellular band: 824 – 848.9875 MHz and 869 – 893.9875 MHz
Step: 3.125, 5, 6.25, 7.5, 8.33, 10, 12.5, 25 kHz
2. New 700MHz coverage and Upgradeable CPU firmware for future rebanding
3. 10 bank and 1000 channel memories for trunking bank and channel combined with conventional mode memory
4. Multi trunking of Motorola (type I, II and hybrid analog system), EDACS wide and LTR
5. CTCSS and DCS Sub-audible encoded squelch mode.
6. Scan both trunking channels and conventional channels at same time.
7. 1500 ID memory in 10 ID banks, 5 sub-ID memories in each bank, and each sub-ID memory has 30 ID locations.
8. Alphanumeric data entry.
9. PC programmable and unit-to-unit cloning.
10. Spectrum sweeper function.
11. Pre-programmed Marine, CB, FRS/GRMS/MURS, Public safety, Aircraft, Amateur (Ham), Railroad, and Weather frequencies.
12. WX alert and SAME receiving with 10 FIPS area code memories.
13. Skywarn function.
14. Attenuator control. (Normal attenuator and Global attenuator)
15. Built-in power save circuit.
16. Frequency tune mode. (Frequency UP or DOWN)
17. “Zeromatic” tuning system.
18. Change the direction at the searching by UP or DOWN.
19. 60 channels/sec. scanning rate and 75 steps/sec. searching rate.
20. 2 second scan and search delay.
21. Manual selection for channel.
22. Scan mode. [Cleared channels (000.000 freq.) are not scan.]
23. Deleting a frequency from a channel.
24. 1 limit search bank.
25. Key lock for safety.
26. Key tone and alert tone.
27. 16 characters x 4 lines and 8 icons LCD.
28. Signal strength meter.
29. Backlit LCD and key pads.
30. Low battery indicator by LCD.
31. Crystal filter for 2nd IF and Ceramic filter for 3rd IF section.
32. 50 lock out frequencies per search bank, Public safety, Aircraft, Ham, Railroad, Limit search. (Totaling 250 frequencies)
33. Frequency lock-out review and Channel lock-out review.
34. BNC type antenna connector.
35. Earphone jack. (D = 3.5 mm stereo)
36. External power / charge jack.
37. PC Interface / Clone jack.
(D = 3.5 mm stereo, and use GRE USB cable No. 30-3290)
38. Operating voltage: DC 6 Volts “AA” cell x 4 pcs.
39. Ext. power and charge voltage: DC 9 Volts (regulated)
40. Dimension: Approx. 65 (W) x 42 (D) x 145 (H) mm
41. Weight: Approx. 240 g without antenna and batteries
42. Accessory: Rubber antenna, Owner’s manual, Normal Battery holder,
Re-charge Battery holder and Belt clip.
43. Memory backup: No battery back-up required, EEPROM used
* Specifications Subject to change without notice.
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