[Pro2006] Pro 2006 w/ Optoscan 456 4 Sale

[Len G. Carpenter]

Another thing is the 456 boards will not work in the 2004, they always claimed
they would and its reflected in the name but when it came down to it they said
screw the 2004 people.

Another thing you gotta remember that the 456 will not program the scanner, it
take over from the CPU section.

Since opto screwed all us 2004.

I had done the memory mode in mine to 6,400 channels, keyboard memory controller
to control the 16 banks.

Then added the CE-232, also added the control to it to control the memory banks
and ever a signal meter.

Combine all this with the Pro-Turbo software and you have 1 kick ass scanner.

I got my 2004 about a year after it was released, only thing is wrong is the
backlight, I can replace it as I have some material to make one up for it but
why bother I never look at it, its stuck up high on a shelf, if I want to use it
I fire up Pro-Turbo and away it goes and with the favourite buttons I can have
the channel I want in no time.

Bob Whiston wrote:

> 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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