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yaesumofo

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Any of you guys have AOR-8000's?
I have 2 still. Great radios. One is translucent blue. It guess it must be pretty rare.
Anyway I have plenty of scanners but I still use my big old 8000 all the time. These were just about the first radios with any kind of real computer interface. It worked for control and programming, as well as modifying the band plan which allowed these radios to hear the cellular freq. It was easy you just had to alter a file that lived in the radio that told it the radios band-Plan.
It just occurred to me again, what a wonderful feature that is. Today we leave it to the manufactures to set the band plan in our scanners. We have no choice. We have to trust them.
Anyway i just wanted to get an AOR-8000 thread going.
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Aor 8000

Still have mine-sits next to the 8200, and I often marvel at how far we have come in the hobby. Have a BC III somewhere in the house....I've had to send my 8000 back to AOR in California several years ago.

Although out of warranty, costs were not too bad, radio has played great since! I have the Opto interface unit, was running ScanCat for a while...lappie died.

Now the 8200....love the radio, but tough to figure out.

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Ar 8000

Yeah, I still have my AR 8000 which replaced my old AR 1000 (remember those?). A friend of mine - Howard Bornstein, wrote the "Guide to the AR1000" then went on to write some software for the AR8000 to use on Apple Macintosh computers (MacScan 8000).

I used my AR 8000 for scanning conventional systems as well as listening to AM/FM and TV audio. I would also use it to listen to shortwave broadcasts (with a telescoping whip antenna) when walking the dog or on camping trips.

I don't listen to it much since I got my BCD396T and the primary agencies that I listen to are on trunked systems.

Oh yeah and I have the speech inversion descrambler card installed.
 

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Still have two of them and a Scout. My area is not trunked so they are still in regular use, although I will admit to carrying a VR500 most of the time for size and HF performance.

73s,

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To add to this little thread - there's a very well populated - tho not much activity on it of late - Yahoo group for this radio. These are some of the best places to find tips, hints, sometimes even software....

AOR8000 Yahoo Group

73s Mike
 

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YUP!!! After being away from scanning for a while I got an RS Pro-95. Then several months ago I sent my old AR8000 back to AOR California for the loose antenna problem - "please replace BNC connector". Cost was reasonable. Turnaround time quick. Now I use the AR8000 for the frequencies that the Pro does not cover like AM/FM and TV audio, MilAir, and occasional use of the the LSB/USB modes, and the 1 or 2 SW freqs that it gets today, as well as a bevy of conventional freqs. Great to have as a travel/vacation scanner. I am not about to put in all the trunked freqs that I might encounter along the way to the Pro95. So I bring the AOR and use the search for conventional freqs (or bring a photo copy of a freq reference page for the area). Great to have a local AM or FM radio in same unit with the scanner.
b/t/w I am trying to get my PC interface to work but have to research the right cable and/or adapter stuff needed. I never did get a valid modern US bandplan so for AM radio I set a search bank to step 10 or use the VFO2 option with step 10 and manually tune via the knob. (The internal bandplan has AM steps set for the European 9 kHz).
Still love the radio. Also love the Pro series for trunking, etc.
That Yahoo group is not very active but has great archives for both messages and files.
-TomK-
Edit: Almost forgot. Replaced the original duck antenna with the RS whip long time ago. Have now replaced it with a duplicate RS antenna used on the Pro-95.
 
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Still have my 8000. Use it for conventional scanning around Los Angeles. Anybody know where I can get the programming cable?

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I still have both my 8000 and 8200. They don't see much use anymore but I keep them around because they are great receivers.
 

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Jakeg said:
Still have my 8000. Use it for conventional scanning around Los Angeles. Anybody know where I can get the programming cable?

JakeG

Maybe expensive way to do things for you but Javiation in the UK probably have them.

http://www.javiation.co.uk/

No connection other than as a satisfied customer
 

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Interface

Thanks for the information. However, they don't manufacture them anymore. Guess I'll have to keep looking, or get someone to make one for me, as my hands aren't working well right now.


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Altho Javiation has marked the JAV232 interface out of production, did you ask about the other ones they sell - or used to sell - the RS-8000 or the CU8232? Unless they haven't updated their website in some time, they're still there. It might pay to ask. If they're gone, I'll remove it from the AOR8000 Wiki I just constructed at:

AOR8000 Wiki

A question or two on the Yahoo group might at least get a schematic; even if you can't use it, someone else might be able to build it. Also I'd check the files area to see if someone has already done that. The Links section might have other sources of cables.

73s and GL with your search.. Mike
 
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