[Pro2006] OptoScan 456s

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 13:12:11 +0000

Don't know if you would be interested but I have a Pro2035 with the Opto 535 
board installed in excellent condition for sale. Let me know if you are 
interested.

Jim, NS3K
[email protected]

>From: Bob Whiston <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Pro2006] OptoScan 456s
>Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:19:39 -0700
>
>         I am looking for a pair of OptoScan 456s to replace a pair, along 
>with the PRO-2006s they were mounted in, that were recently stolen.  While 
>I am fortunate enough to have `salted away' a `spare' pair of PRO-2006s I 
>wasn't quite as `lucky' when it came to the OS456s.  {DANG!}  The perps, 
>whomever they were, apparently had a good idea as to what they wanted as 
>they also got away with a PRO-2067, a RELM MS-200, and an AOR AR-2500 and 
>left the BC-760xlts and BC-950xlts among others.  (Basically it seems like 
>they were after anything, scanner-wise, that could be hooked up to a 
>computer and could either be `loaded' or `controlled' by said computer.  
>Fortunately they didn't get any of my handhelds, other scanners, or the two 
>computer controllable SW receivers.)  I already have a `line' on a 
>replacement PRO-2067 and *may* have already found a replacement MS-200.  
>The AOR AR-2500 I probably won't find because if someone actually has a 
>`working?' one they probably wouldn't consider selling because `working?' 
>AR-2500s are few and far between.  (For those who aren't familiar with the 
>AR-2500 it's an *old* AOR "Wide Range" base/mobile receiver that was 
>capable of AM, WFM, and NFM from 1000KHz - 1300MHz  in 78 banks of 62 
>`scan' banks with 32 "channels"/bank along with 16 `search' banks with 2 
>"channels"/bank for a `grand? total' of 2016 "channels".  It wasn't 
>`blocked out' like all the receivers out there now and so they had a 
>`disclaimer' that read;
>
>         "Please be warned.  *IF* your radio should happen to intercept 
>this type of call, `Cellular Phone' - IMTS phones - certain voice and tone 
>pages - some radio/TV/press frequencies, you can either shut if, leave the 
>room, or shoot it with an AK-47."
>
>         Given the current `climate' I don't think that anyone who still 
>happens to have an actual `working' AR-2500 would likely want to either let 
>on that they do have one or let it go.  Also, again given the current 
>`climate', I would think that one could add M16 right after AK-47 because 
>that would probably be what would be used by `The Authorities' if they ever 
>got their hands upon one.  (Before anyone suggests that `The Authorities' 
>might actually *try* and put it to use I should explain that `programing' 
>or trying to `control' one can be a *real* PITA and the only software that 
>*I* know of only runs under plain old DOS and is *very* `cranky' to boot.  
>With that caveat said I *will* also say that once one does figure out how 
>to do either, `program' or `control', and has a `working' unit it is a 
>fairly good little radio for it's `time'.  I know that I am going to miss 
>the one I had.)
>
>         But...  Back on `topic'...  Like I said at the begining...  I am 
>looking for at least one (1), and hopefully *maybe* two (2), OptoScan OS456 
>unit(s) that someone might want to part with for a reasonable price.  (*IF* 
>`push comes to shove' I might entertain purchasing said unit(s) already 
>installed *IF* the price was `right' and is the only way I can get 
>it/them.)  The `shack' really looks kinda bare without my `old friends' and 
>Living way out in the `boonies' like I do there really isn't any suitable 
>replacment available these days.  (Besides...  I'd have to go through the 
>hassles of building a whole new `rack' to fit anything else and I'm kinda 
>`lazy' that way.  {WAN GRIN!}  If I can just `re-fill' the empty `holes' 
>pretty much I'd much rather do that.  [Oh, yeah...  I'd also have to find 
>some time between all the `honey do' projects, too, if I had to build a new 
>`rack'.  {WRY GRIN!}])
>
>
>---
>     Doleo ergo sum,
>        Bob Whiston
>
>        "Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot them all."
>
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