Radio Shack Pro-95 1000 Channel Dual-Trunking Scanner Radio

This is a great and very sophisticated scanner. It's capable of doing a lot and is programmable using your computer, a $30 cable and some software from the Internet, but the included manual can be difficult to use. There is an easier-to-read manual that's been put together by a scanner enthusiast and uploaded to the web. Also, be aware that the included list of frequencies is out of date.

Although many police agencies have moved to un-monitorable radio systems due to the prevalence of criminals carrying scanners, there's still a lot of interesting stuff out there that you can listen to!

This scanner's my first, so I don't have much to compare it to, but it appears to have excellent sensitivity, crisp audio, and with an external AC power supply or an auto power cable, it can charge Ni-MH AA cells while it in use. It seems ruggedly made (I have dropped it onto pavement more than once). Like everyone else who has reviewed this scanner, I found the instruction manual confusing. The simple fact that you need to program all frequencies of a trunked system into one bank exactly the way you program conventional systems, after which you program the trunking system mode and data once for the bank took me hours to figure out. I must have reread the trunking portion of the manual a dozen times or more. The icing on the cake is that the manual is poorly organized and lacks an index. Still, I would recommend this scanner in a heartbeat.

iam not that good with spelling because i have dyslexic but i well try the best that i can tho my pro 95 that i buy is real good it picks up weather better then any thing esl but i can some time hear some things alot of the times so it dose work good in some time i well be geting a much better one tho well it be the newer ones who knows but it well be good tho i hope i well be deleting all of the Frequency i hading in there because i miss up lol my last police i had was a pro 94 i think it was real good police scanner to my first one was the Uniden BC355C again a real good police scanner if i had to pick from the pro Radio Shack police scanners from the Unidens police scanners i would have to say that the Unidens police scanners are the best hands down sorry Radio Shack i knows alot of you well say otherwise but thats how i fell i well give you all a fellow up on this police scanner real soon more to come for now thats all thanks for reading this From. Tom_Fox