RS PRO-2037 an oldie but a goodie

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viennatech

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I have been scanning on and off for years on different equipment but one of my long favorite scanners has been a trusty pro-2037 that is circa 1998. It has sat in a box for a good few years and I recently turned it on to find it still held programmed freq's and began delivering scanner joy immediately!

It is a 200 channel, 20 bank scanner that manages well up into the 900 MHz range. It seemed to be a useless item in today's modern scanner scene but I was ignited with reading on this forum about modding the scanner with a discriminator tap. I didn't even know if this was possible but since I was taking the scanner apart to fix a power hum issue figured I'd see if it could be done. It was amazingly easy to do.

I took a couple of pictures of the job as I did it and noticed there is a wiki with other models posted. If I bother to write this one up and send the pix, can it be submitted there? Want to make sure it's worth the effort to do it.

In the meantime I get to go and explore this world of unitrunker, and who knows what?
 

viennatech

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Pro-2037

The Pro-2037 was manufactured by GRE in China. In 1995 dollars the unit retailed for $299.99. The radio is generally well received and offeres excellent selectivity which makes it a good unit for urban use.
Note:This radio can not be computer controlled.

Contents

1 General Specifications
4 Included Accessories
5 Owner's Manuals
General Specifications

Frequency Coverage
Frequency (MHz) Step Size Value
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30-54 Mhz (in 5 kHz steps)
118.0000 - 136.9750 MHz (in 25 kHz steps)
137.0000 - 174.0000 MHz (in 5 kHz steps)
380.0000 - 512.0000 MHz (in 12.5 kHz steps)
806.0000 - 823.9875 MHz (in 12.5 kHz steps)
849.0125 - 868.9875 MHz (in 12.5 kHz steps)
894.0125 - 960.0000 MHz (in 12.5 kHz steps)

⦁ Can be updated to support Rebanding? NO

⦁ 200 channels in 20 banks plus 10 monitor
⦁ Scan rate 25 cps, search rate 50 cps
⦁ Channel delay
⦁ Easy-to-read back lit display.
⦁ 1 Priority channel per bank
⦁ Limit search function

Included Accessories
⦁ Owners Manual
⦁ Stock pull-up antenna

Owner's Manuals
RadioShack PRO-2037 Programmable Scanner (200-0461)
http://ham.spectrox.com/pro2037/rs_pro2037.pdf
 

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