It was unheard of!īC100 was introduced in 1981 and was the one of first mainstream handheld Have to look up binary codes in a guide that they were now able to enter aįrequency directly into a scanner. Imagine in theĭays when one would buy crystals for each channel, need programming combs or Revolutionary to be able to program a scanner without crystals and it had aġ977 and was Bearcat’s first direct entry programmable scanner. While kind of clunky, for the time it was It was programmedīy setting the channel switches in a pattern for the specific frequency as Mid 1970’s and was one of the earliest programmable scanners. Was no longer useful, hobbyists would wire it up to be used as an external Was huge and provided such good audio that years later, when the scanner itself UHF and VHF in the same radio in the days when that was not common. Of the ones we think really made a huge difference:īC-III was introduced in 1975 and was a VHF/UHF crystal scanner that was one of Success with many groundbreaking designs over the decades. P25 systems and was one of the first scanners with the on-board database andīearcat scanners originated with the Electra line back in the 1960’s and 70’s.Īfter purchase by Uniden they retained the Bearcat branding and designs.Įventually Uniden bought the Regency brand and rebadged some existing Bearcatīecame the biggest player in the market. The PSR800 was the first scanner co work on Phase 2 WS1088 and TRX-1 Mobile versions of the stillborn PSR900 became the Whistler Rebadged as the Whistler WS1080 soon thereafter and eventually morphed into the PSR800 was introduced in 2011, just before GRE went out of business.
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It also provided aĭata source usable with software programs such as PRO96Com and has dataĭetection modes that were well liked by radio enthusiasts. These systems directly rather than in a conventional mode. Systems, together with its mobile cousin, the PRO2096, one could now listen to PRO96 was the first P25 scanner that worked on the newer 9600 baud trunked The tiny size made it easy to keep in a shirt pocket or camera bag. With 200 channels one could program in a ton of channels or do a search of theīand.
PRO43 was introduced in the mid 1990’s and was the first handheld widelyĪvailable that included the Mil Air band so were coveted by the airshow crowd. Successors, similar in operation but in smaller cases with some other tweaks Industry for modifications and accessories. They were coveted by the MilAir listener and helped create a large cottage Its wide-open frequency coverage actually caused it toīe recalled from stores to have the cellular frequencies blocked, this wasĮasily defeated however, and the radio even had the proper spacing for them. It had 300 channels when 16 was considered average and 50 wasĬonsidered remarkable. PRO2004 was introduced in 1986 and was probably the most revolutionary scanner Shack had a great advantage in that they had a huge retail infrastructureĪround the world and for years sold a wide range of scanners. Whistler continued to produce scanners for Radio Shack based on the Whistler designs for a short time and afterwards brought out their own line of WS and later the TRX scanners. Coincidentally both Radio Shack and GRE closed up operations for different reasons at about the same time and Whistler Group bought the GRE product line. Later they developed their own line in parallel with the Radio Shack line. GRE built and designed many scanners for Radio Shack back in the day. This scanner was in the shape of one of these cartridgesĪnd had 4 crystal-controlled channels.
Large plastic cartridges in the days before cassette tapes, they were wildly For those too young to know what that was, anĨ-track player was used to listen to music recorded on magnetic tape held in Were also a few real duds here and there.
Today at the time they were introduced they really made a huge impact. While some are obviously dated and obsolete The ones I discuss are scanners that I think helped define the market at the You have a favorite scanner that you think should be listed please let us know! Scanners that introduced new features, made other features popular or just were so darn good that they are beloved by the community will be discussed here. There are certain scanners that, much more than others, are so remarkable that they change the market or make a lasting impression on the hobby. We all love scanners, you would not be reading this if you didn’t.
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