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Brad

Post subject: Programming a PSR-500

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:46 pm

Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:57 am
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Location: CN87

Ok - an old friend of mine has asked for help in programming a GRE PSR-500 scanner that he acquired to listen to the Sno County SERS trunking system.

I know very little about these GRE scanners. From the information I've gleaned in several minutes of web-searching, it appears the radio came with a cable (which he says he has), and some kind of "demo" Cd. I guess that CD does not contain any programming software.

So, what software package is recommended for programming this radio? It appears that Butel and Win500 are the popular ones.

Or, better yet - does someone already have the software and a Snohomish County "template" they would be willing to dump into his radio? He lives in the Edmonds area.

Thanks, Brad.

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Wilrobnson

Post subject: Re: Programming a PSR-500

Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:53 pm

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PM Dog- he's the undisputed king when it comes to this stuff.

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dog

Post subject: Re: Programming a PSR-500

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:07 am

Joined: Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:13 pm
Posts: 476
Location: Sammamish, WA

Yea, happy to help. I use Win500 from www.starrsoft.com and am very happy with it. The Sno County files are in the file sharing area and you can just load them up in win500 and program the scanner.

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Atomic Taco

Post subject: Re: Programming a PSR-500

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:34 am

Joined: Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:58 pm
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Location: Not in Alaska

Link for the lazy

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Brad

Post subject: Re: Programming a PSR-500

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 7:58 pm

Joined: Fri Feb 20, 2004 8:57 am
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Location: CN87

Atomic Taco wrote:

Link for the lazy

Ok, then. Guess that means I should peruse the Wiki more often.

Thanks Dog, I will probably just get the software and use the p500 file in the wiki. That will be a good place to start, and I can probably figure out from there.

Brad.

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OWEN62

Post subject: Re: Programming a PSR-500

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:00 pm

Joined: Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:16 pm
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Location: One foot in the hole

The PSR-500 comes with all of Snohomish County preloaded in Virtual bank 7 VS7 that would inclued all of washington load VS7 should be in bank 18 or 19.

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John Galt

Post subject: Re: Programming a PSR-500

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 2:13 pm

Joined: Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:53 pm
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I have found the preloaded frequencies and talkgroups in the PSR-500 are worthless for the three metro areas I use it in. It worked much better once I entered the right information.

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OWEN62

Post subject: Re: Programming a PSR-500

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 10:26 pm

Joined: Sat Jun 13, 2009 4:16 pm
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Location: One foot in the hole

John Galt wrote:

I have found the preloaded frequencies and talkgroups in the PSR-500 are worthless for the three metro areas I use it in. It worked much better once I entered the right information.

thats well and fine BUT I CAN tell you they work fine for Snohomish County..I have a 500 and a 600............................

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