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Realistic PRO 2005 Tandy Scanner from 1989 does it work

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Realistic PRO-2005
Probably one of the best radio scanners ever made for its time!
These were an expensive but great investment back in the day.
I’ve just rediscovered mine after many years stored in the attic, maybe 20 years. The radio was purchased back in 1989.
Let’s see if it works and look at any repair work that may be needed.
#radioscanners #hamradio #Tandy #RealisticPRO2005

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29 авг 2024

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Комментарии : 17

@ScottEvans-vk7hse Месяц назад

I've restored a realistic 2021 & 2022 Scanners to working order. Had to replace the EL-Tape for the LCD backlight. Funny that one of the first places to find replacements was from a business in the UK!

@MikesMovies Месяц назад

Excellent work, I still need to do the display but I've re capped it a bit too and it works well. EL-tape?

@ScottEvans-vk7hse Месяц назад

@@MikesMovies Electroluminescent Tape is what I call el-tape.

@ScottEvans-vk7hse Месяц назад

@@MikesMovies I've tried pasting the url to the place in the UK sells the backlight but it looks like it's getting filtered by RU-vid.

@shammon1 Месяц назад

I got one of these last week for £15. It and had the BATT error flashing despite changing it. Found a solution was to bridge the pink wire from the front panel to earth and fixed it. I need to also fix the back light now but its a great scanner.

@MikesMovies 24 дня назад

How you getting on with it?

@shammon1 24 дня назад

@@MikesMovies Very well, I replaced the back light strip and cleaned up the board. Rapid scanner, great fun👍

@MikesMovies 24 дня назад

@@shammon1 Oo interesting, what did you use and do to replace the backlight?

@shammon1 24 дня назад

@@MikesMovies split the radio down and remove the front off it. Unscrew abd unsolder the back plate. Then unsolder the two backlight pins. It then slides out, I got a replacement screen from Elwirecraft for £8 in UK

@MikesMovies 24 дня назад

@@shammon1 Excellent info thanks

@aldo3ortiz 20 дней назад

Hi there, I'm a complete newbie about radios, but I'm getting into it. I’ve seen an advertisement recently that caught my eye of a Realistic 400 pro-2005. I would like to buy it, but I kind of remember watching a video saying that most of the frequencies nowadays, especially police, fire fighters, etc., are digital. I'm not sure, but I think the 400 pro-2005 is not digital, right? So, it would be fair to say this model of scanner is not that worthy anymore, isn't it? Am I correct? What could I still do with this kind of model? Thanks in advance.

@MikesMovies 19 дней назад

Hey there. Emergency services are no longer receivable you are correct (UK) however this scanner can still get Aircraft civil and military, shipping, PMR and a host of other services. I'd recommend you joining one of the Facebook scanner forums. This is an old but capable scanner, you might like to look at one of the new ones such as The Uniden UBC125XLT is a compact 500-channel handheld scanner, which covers 25-88MHz, 108-174 MHz, 225-512 MHz, and 806-960 MHz with 5/6.25/8.33/10/12.5kHz can be had at a low cost and have the added facility of close call whereby they can lock onto local signals. Good luck

@aldo3ortiz 17 дней назад

@@MikesMovies Thank you, I really appreciate the input.

@brianberthold3118 2 месяца назад

not made by Tandy .. LOL

@MikesMovies 2 месяца назад

No, supplied by them but made by GRE in Japan

@mariaviklund4546 Месяц назад

Remember to L/OUT all the 000.0000 channels or you'll be scanning a lot of nothing :) And the electroluminecent panels can be bought for cheap on Amazon and be replaced. Maybe change color?.

@MikesMovies Месяц назад

ah yes I remember now, thanks. Got a link for amazon?