Message posted by lone wolf on March 26, 2004 at 7:41:09 PST:

I hate to be redundant, but I hate to see wrong information posted. Again, it is UHF air, not just VHF air. All scanners have VHF air. UHF air is the military band missing from most scanners. The pro-96 handles military air just fine if you open up the receive using software from www.starrsoft.com. [Given that the software has a 15 day free use period, you could just leave the scanner in the "open" mode.] You probably didn't read that I picked up one of these used, so I have first hand knowledge of how it works.

Both the Pro-93 and Pro-96 can be software modified to receive military air, but the Pro-93 specs aren't very good. These numbers come from Don Starr (of starrsoft.com):

MHz PRO-93 PRO-96
17 0.62 µV 0.43 µV
60 0.57 µV 0.34 µV
70 1.61 µV 0.64 µV
80 4.11 µV 0.39 µV
90 9.64 µV 0.31 µV
100 20.39 µV 0.26 µV
225 0.45 µV 0.31 µV
250 0.85 µV 0.60 µV
275 2.16 µV 1.39 µV
300 5.18 µV 2.88 µV
325 10.95 µV 1.58 µV
350 30.16 µV 0.96 µV
375 173.57 µV 0.99 µV
400 60.88 µV 0.55 µV
425 0.39 µV 0.29 µV
450 0.38 µV 0.25 µV
475 0.46 µV 0.27 µV
500 0.49 µV 0.29 µV
525 0.84 µV 0.40 µV
550 2.01 µV 0.60 µV
764 (no reception) 1.36 µV
775 (no reception) 0.70 µV
800 (no reception) 0.35 µV
960 0.41 µV 0.28 µV
975 0.41 µV 0.29 µV
1000 0.42 µV 0.29

Now the specs aren't that great for the Pro-96 either, but in the field, i.e. at the last red flag, it worked fine.

Budget is another story, which is why I mentioned the Pro-26. However, if you are serious about the hobby, again I point out that every military base has a trunk radio system, so to monitor all activity, you need trunking. Good luck monitoring the X43a launch this Saturday at EDW without a trunking scanner.

In Reply to: but a Pro 96 wont get VHF-AIR posted by aaron johnson on March 26, 2004 at 1:20:58 PST:

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