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One of the features I really like with the new GRE PSR-300 scanner that I’ve been testing is the signal strength meter. On the display there is a big S when your receiving a transmission followed by 0-5 bars to indicate signal strength. Why is this such a good thing. Well for [...]

I mentioned in the last post that one of the things that I was surprised by was the feel that it wasn’t as durable a plastic cover on the GRE PSR-300 as I recall on the older (80s/90s era) Radio Shack/Uniden handhelds. I can’t tell you how many times the old Uniden has taken [...]

This is going to be a long series. I am going to be spacing things out a bit and so I’m starting this post on January 1st. It will likely publish on the 30th. I’m going to delve into quite a few aspects of the GRE PSR-300 in greater detail in future [...]

When I was shopping for the GRE PSR-300 I noticed that a lot of places (including scannermaster.com) offer to program your scanner for you. Some, such as the greamerica.com site offer pre-programming for free for one county (and they sell it at a bit higher price.) Others will offer programming for around the [...]

One of the reasons that I was interested in getting this GRE PSR-300 scanner to review and work with was the possibility of tuning in the local amateur radio repeaters. I’ve been able to receive one thus far with the old scanner although I was barely picking it up. It is the repeater [...]

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 [...]

Well…. after this last storm I got the old Uniden scanner out and reprogrammed it’s 10 channels to monitor one local amateur repeater the volunteer fire, one sherrif’s department channel and a couple other close frequencies. I heard a lot of the cleanup process and was quickly struggling with how to juggle the other [...]