![]() That was very interesting and showed the beauty of having all the frequencies programmed into the scanner. Having waited for the configuration to load and scanning to commence, I very quickly started to hear lots of activity on the Airband, mostly civil, but quite soon, the scanner stopped on a military airband frequency, which I had not heard before, despite being quite local to me. However, switching the unit on is a reasonably extended process, because the radio has to load all the frequencies stored on the removable SD-Card in the scanner into the memory of the unit.īecause of the sheer number of frequencies, this can take up to 5 minutes. It’s as simple as that, and that’s exactly what will happen. This means that you can just switch on, and the unit will start to scan these frequencies. With the Moonraker code plug installed on the TRX-2, the scanner has been configured with all the possible frequencies for Airband (both Civil and Military), Marine, DMR Simplex, DMR Repeater, NXDN Repeater, P25 Repeater, FM Simplex, FM Repeater, DMR446, and PMR 446. ![]() ![]() Without any more ado, I connected the PSU, attached the antenna in the back and switched on. The control head of the TRX-2 is detachable, and the unit comes with a cable to allow the control head to be sited up to 2m from the main body of the scanner. It comes with a ‘wall-wart’ style PSU, and a telescopic antenna with a BNC connector. Unpacking the scanner, I found the unit quite small but nicely made. The removable magnetic head can be operated remotely Conventional DMR (Entered as a DMR trunked system) This multi-system adaptive digital trunking scanner supports Motorola P25 Phase I, X2-TDMA, Phase II and DMR, making it capable of monitoring the following unencrypted channels/systems: The radio is supplied with software, and users can select mode when writing memories or select auto, and the receiver will work out the mode itself. The radios will receive both amateur and commercial DMR transmissions, because – apart from the frequency – they are fundamentally the same mode. When a user performs a service scan, this will search in the correct steps for the selected band ensuring maximum received stations. ‘Moonraker have worked with Whistler to customise a UK band plan for the scanners! This ensures the radios cover UK bands in the correct steps and the correct mode. So, what basic information is available online about this radio? Here is an excerpt: I’d heard great things about the Whistler scanners from various friends and I was keen to try it. Would I like to have a look at the Whistler TRX-2 desktop digital scanner, with the setup as supplied by Moonraker? We’ll come to the difference that means shortly. It was another of those emails from our dear editor.
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