commscanaus
Member
Managed to purchase an AOR AR8000 in brand new condition recently.
The elderly owner had purchased it to listen to the airbands back in the nineties, could not figure out how to use it properly and shoved it in a drawer.
There it stayed until now.
In mint condition with carry case, owners AND service manuals for $100.
Back in the early nineties, I purchased an AOR AR1000 handheld. It was such a poor performer and very difficult to use. I soon gave up on it and sold it, swaring never to get an AOR again.
When the AR8000 came out in 1994, I simply scoffed at it. Hugely expensive and no doubt just as hard to use.
Well here I am 16 years later.....and I love the AR8000!!!
Wish I had bought one back then.
Excellent audio, super receiver (beats the Icom IC-R7100 on the same antenna on airband) and a nice size in the hand.
It scans fast enough and does not seem to suffer from too many birdies.
No where near as hard to use as the AR1000.
Even found the P.C. interface fairly cheaply with the ribbon cables (horrible connection method) and have programmed the set up with close to 800 channels.
If it had CTCSS/DCS, it would be close to a perfect analog scanner for me.
Now this leads me to the question...is the AR8200 as good a radio as the AR8000?
I have a sudden urge to get more AOR radios!
Commscanaus.
The elderly owner had purchased it to listen to the airbands back in the nineties, could not figure out how to use it properly and shoved it in a drawer.
There it stayed until now.
In mint condition with carry case, owners AND service manuals for $100.
Back in the early nineties, I purchased an AOR AR1000 handheld. It was such a poor performer and very difficult to use. I soon gave up on it and sold it, swaring never to get an AOR again.
When the AR8000 came out in 1994, I simply scoffed at it. Hugely expensive and no doubt just as hard to use.
Well here I am 16 years later.....and I love the AR8000!!!
Wish I had bought one back then.
Excellent audio, super receiver (beats the Icom IC-R7100 on the same antenna on airband) and a nice size in the hand.
It scans fast enough and does not seem to suffer from too many birdies.
No where near as hard to use as the AR1000.
Even found the P.C. interface fairly cheaply with the ribbon cables (horrible connection method) and have programmed the set up with close to 800 channels.
If it had CTCSS/DCS, it would be close to a perfect analog scanner for me.
Now this leads me to the question...is the AR8200 as good a radio as the AR8000?
I have a sudden urge to get more AOR radios!
Commscanaus.