new scanner

This is a vid of my new Radio scanner, Its a Radioshack Pro 163 Tripple Trunking scanner, it has 1000 channels, NOAA alert, Skywarn and Signal Satlker II. The thing I really like too is the alpha Text! The only thing I really don't get is how the trunking part works, CTCSS / DCS and a few other things i dont get, but basically I need help w/the trunking, thanks if anyone can help.

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• Radioshack
• Pro
• 163
• trunking
• scanner
• police
• news
• stringer
• fire

[StrangerUnidentified]

I got this today and it was my first scanner I've owned. It's really nice, I love it :D

[TheEchoAlpha]

Watch my video to program type II Motorola and GRE ( Grecom of america) and uniden both make scanners for radioshack

[alscort93]

@nightstringers umm, Uniden makes RS's scanners, so I guess if you want to pay more for the Bearcat name feel free.

[FltOfTheGrndBnd]

@jeffreyhunt45 It isn't a question of how far the scanner reaches out, it's a question of how far the signals reach out. For instance, you have got a scanner, but the antenna just sits there and picks up RF; it's the transmitter (whatever is propagating the signal) that can increase and decrease the range based on frequency/wavelength, transmitting power, antenna polarization, etc.

But to give you an answer, I can easily pick up aircraft, marine, Civil Air Patrol, police, fire, and EMS.

[bradmann85]

@nightstringers hey now i own 3 radio shack scanners and 2 bearcat scanners. all work the same and work very good. you probably got a faulty one. the radio shack scanners that i own are a pro433 , pro83 (lost it), and a pro2052. the bearcats i have are a BC348CLT(built in alarm clock and am fm radio weather alert) and a twin turbo sportcat (model number unknown) all work the same and get the same interference.

[jeffreyhunt45]

ya so how far can the radio shack pro 163 reatch out

[747cy]

yep if u dnt have it trunking an id scanning there pretty much wortless

[michael76l]

Hey man nice scanner! I am also having a hard time trying to program my triple truncking scanner.. i just got a pro 164 portable scanner for Christmas and no luck on how to program it.. if you figure it out let me know or make a video on how to program! im also in mass 25 mins. from RI..

[jacolbyredsox]

Help, Sorry ran out of text space anyways just keep reading the manual trust me someday you will get it the trunking is a little hard to explain though

[jacolbyredsox]

hey, the CTCSS or DCS just reads the frequency of the tone when the dispatcher from the fd drops them I dont know how to get it on there but I have a GRE PSR 400 and its similar I just kept trying to understand the manual. The trunking was complicated for me too I live up in mass and monitor the staties but I just kept rading the manual again and again and finally got it. The trunking justs tells the radio ID the person is transmiting on and it follows it to who will talk next. Hope this will he