[Pro2006] Pro 2006 w/ Optoscan 456 4 Sale

[Dan conti]

Can you PLEASE take your negotiations and discussion of radio sales to 
PRIVATE e-mail?

SHEEESH

> At 15:12 04-10-05, you wrote:
>
>> Hi Jay: I am very much interested in your Pro 2006 and price is not a
>> problem. I already have both a 2004 and a 2006, but never had the 
>> Opto scan
>> feature.  Can you summarize  for me just what it does.  And, is the 
>> display
>> on yours in good shape. Mine is working, but seems to be dimming. So, 
>> not
>> sure if it is trying to go out or what.  On the other hand my 2004 is 
>> like
>> new. Wonder if the opto scan board would install in it too. 
>> Understand the
>> opto scan boards are not longer available. Please advise. Thanks, 
>> Bill/K3YC
>
>
>         Well...  To answer the last question first...  Why would you 
> want to yank out an already functional `456' board from a functional 
> `06?  *If* that `04 is in really great condition you probably 
> shouldn't be messing with it since, as a fellow `04 owner I can attest 
> to the variability of `04s and their ability to still be operating 
> this long after they came out.  I've got 3 of them and only *1* is 
> still operational after running 24/7 since I bought them. (It was, 
> since CO and the county I live in has pretty much gone `digital' and I 
> now use a `2096, my `bedside' radio.  The others were replaced by `06s 
> w/ OPTO456s as they died and finally became `un-revivable', and I 
> *did* try to `revive' them. [The `06s are still being used for many 
> other things even though even they have been supplanted by `2096s 
> because of CO's going `digital and may actually become my `workhorses' 
> again once we can finally move to a new place where they haven't yet 
> gone `digital'. {GRIN!}  the `2096s are pretty good radios but a '06 
> w/ OPTO456 and some good software is still a pretty hard combination 
> to beat. {CHORTLE!}])
>
>         OK...  On to the 456...  Imagine replacing a goodly part of 
> the '06 with an almost exact replica of what you've replaced but which 
> can be run, and `programed', via a computer.  (You *do* still use 
> quite a bit of the `06 that makes it an `06!)  Further more this 
> replacement has the ability to handle decoding, if you've got the 
> *full* OPTO456 *not* the OPTO456 Lite, PL tones and DTMF tones.  
> Now...  further imagine that you can have almost literally *1000s* of 
> `channels' programmed in and can almost literally change them `on the 
> fly' when needed to do so. (With, again, the right software operating 
> the `456. [The `right' software depends upon both what *you* are 
> interested in and how you want to satisfy those interests. I'll let 
> others here tell you about what they use and why they use it.  
> Personally I use quite a few different programs depending upon what I 
> am trying to do and cannot really say which one is better than another 
> because of that.  Though...  I suppose that for running my `06s as 
> `scanners' *I* would probably say that "Signal Intelligence's" 
> software is *my* `pick since I've pretty much been using it since a 
> started running an `06 w/456 and was part of the CO SCANList 
> `listening posts' group.  Others will probably say that "Probe" is 
> `the best' and still others will have something else.  It's a matter 
> of `personal taste' and what you want to achieve with the combination. 
> (And maybe also just what your wallet can afford? {WAN GRIN!}  Some of 
> the software out there can be pretty danged pricey! )])  Next, imagine 
> that you can scan at speeds that you never thought that an `06 could 
> scan at before.  Moving some of the `load' over to the computer 
> definitely helps.  (I also suspect that RS/GRE limited the scanning 
> speed because at the time it was designed and built there really 
> wasn't all that much `perceived need' for anything much faster and the 
> parts that would be needed would have missed the `price point' they 
> were `shooting' for. {WAN GRIN!})  An `06 is a danged good radio to 
> begin with but, add an OPTO/456, and it becomes close, if not 
> completely, to being a `super radio' even as old as it is is.  (Try 
> finding something as good as one with an OPTO board is at the price a 
> good condition one is selling for these days!  You will probably have 
> to spend somewhere between 2 ½ to maybe 3 or 4 times that before 
> buying any software?  [Personally I'd probably be picking up several 
> more `06s as `spares' right now except that because we *are* seriously 
> working on moving and we don't need anything more to have worry about 
> packing up for the move and also need to save every little bit we can 
> just in case things end up co$ting a bit more than `planned?'.  
> (`Good?' old Edsal Murphy, his wife claims he's actually an 
> `optimist', has a tendency to always try and `throw in his 2¢ worth'! 
> {WAN GRIN!})  Hopefully after we finally make our move I'll be able to 
> get some `backups' for my backups? {CHORTLE!}])
>
>
> ---
>     Doleo ergo sum,
>        Bob Whiston
>
>
>         Some days it just isn't worth chewing through the straps.
>
>
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