20-047: Scanner Programming Cable gone from RS website

scanpprcn · Jul 5, 2010

The past couple of days the scanner programming cable for the Pro-106 and Pro-197 (and many others) is missing from the RS website following the $19.99 sale.

The part number was 20-047.

Hmmm...

Edit: I called the local RS store and they said it's in the computer as "discontinued" at a current price of $29.99.

Eng74 · Jul 5, 2010

I believe when something is out of stock they pull it off the web site now.

zzdiesel · Jul 5, 2010

It would be a good idea for us to buy an extra from eBay or wherever just in case.But I reckon GRE will probably have them.

kdkoch · Jul 6, 2010

That cable is gone. It will be replace by a new one that also comes with a trial of Butel for the customer to program thier own radio. The stores will not be using Scancat anymore (thank god) but that means for a little while, the stores will not be programming radios at all. The new part number will be 200-0546. Stores wont have this till probably end of August.

sadatoni · Jul 6, 2010

Glad they're getting rid of Scancat. I demoed it and it worked just once. Every time after that it complained I didn't have enough memory to run it (it wanted 512 MB, and I have 6 gig of memory).

ka3jjz · Jul 6, 2010

It's a good time to document other manufacturer's cables that are also known to work with the GRE or RS models. This can, and should, be entered in our wiki since this is likely to become a question that arises again and again once the GRE USB cables get to be in short supply. 73 Mike

scanpprcn · Jul 6, 2010

ka3jjz said:
It's a good time to document other manufacturer's cables that are also known to work with the GRE or RS models...

Nice idea.

Also, for those "in-the-know" about RS pricing on discontinued items, at what point will they mark the 20-047's down to a lower price?

giallocali · Jul 6, 2010

Just an FYI,
Two of my local RS have the discontinued cables in stock. They are labeled $34.99 on the shelves, but when scanned at the register, the price comes up $19.99.

RickS31 · Jul 6, 2010

I believe that $19.99 price on the cable in-store ended on Saturday, July 3rd. I had purchased one a couple of weeks ago for $24.99 and then saw it on RS site for $19.99. Talked to store manager and he said he'd rebate my additional $5 if I came in with receipt before end of day Saturday since that was the end of the sale.
Got it.

However, the store still had a couple of them on the shelf. Do't know what they may sell for. Was typically $29.99.

Rick

jamesa53 · Jul 6, 2010

The ones I have seen in the 2 local RS stores are date coded "06" so they have been there a while. Perhaps this is why they are on clearance.

jamesa53 · Jul 6, 2010

kdkoch said:
That cable is gone. It will be replace by a new one that also comes with a trial of Butel for the customer to program thier own radio. The stores will not be using Scancat anymore (thank god) but that means for a little while, the stores will not be programming radios at all. The new part number will be 200-0546. Stores wont have this till probably end of August.

Butel.........ewwwwwwwww, IMHO. That will certainly endear new enthusiasts to programming by software, however its much better than ScanCat. My local RS stores do not program scanners at all, they just refer you to a RS number on your receipt where you can hear a voice read the programming instructions from the manual to you.

kdkoch · Jul 6, 2010

It looks like we are going to be helping out RadioReference when we sell a scanner now. Check out RadioReference.com - Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference The customer will get a 2 week trial of RR

jamesa53 · Jul 6, 2010

WOW!!!

How did you find this?

Is this the link to the BuTel software? Does it include the driver for the cable?

kdkoch · Jul 6, 2010

It is the same butel trial software that you can get from thier site. No, there are no drivers there.

puzzleriddle · Jul 6, 2010

jamesa53 said:
WOW!!!

How did you find this?

Is this the link to the BuTel software? Does it include the driver for the cable?

just click & find out LOL

puzzleriddle · Jul 6, 2010

I predict the other scanner programming apps will have this also & soon.

kdkoch · Jul 6, 2010

I was kinda hoping the site would link to the different software available, not just one company. Nothing against Butel but the other ones are nice apps too.

puzzleriddle · Jul 6, 2010

if there is $$ involved they will be on it hehe

sadatoni · Jul 6, 2010

Interestingly, my cable came with the driver software, but when I let Win 7 install the driver. I then downloaded the current driver. Then tried to to get windows to update it. Windows said it was already at the current version. Been working ever since.

scanpprcn · Jul 6, 2010

I called the local store again, and they said that even though they see the discontinued code, the computer hasn't changed the price. It's still $29.99

:-(

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