Aor Ar-1000?

[DaRule762]

Have it and love it also, haven't used it much in the past 8 years though.

 

[willreed]

I own one. I bought mine back in 1991.It's still going strong.

 

[johnwashington]

Aor 1000

It was good back in the day.

 

[rmosier]

AR100 (Trident TR-1200)

I have one. It was my first scanner. I loved it. Was great for Cellular back when you could hear cellular. I still use it, but the keyboard contacts went bad. So I'm lucky I got all my local freqs in before that happened. If anyone knows where to buy a replacement keypad, or how to fix one, please let me know.

Ray

 

[N6RDC]

I've still got mine, packed away somewhere. Pain in the butt to program but one of the few
unblocked radios I've got left. The only reason I haven't tried to sell it was because most people
won't want to pay anything for it....so I keep it. I bought it it at Jun's which I believe is now Ham City?

 

[smason]

I still have mine, yes a pain to program but a great receiver, WFM came in handy for certain things that were a bit wider than normal and would deviate out of the passband.

I can't find much bad to say about any of my 80's/90's scanners (Pro 2004 2006 43, and AOR1000)

 

[johnwashington]

I haven't used mine in years.

 

[DaveeCom]

I used to have an AR1000 (from Scanners Unlimited in the Bay Area I think it was in Redwood City, Ca. or near there).

Eventually it developed a short circuit somewhere near the battery compartment. It would short the batteries whenever you squeezed the bottom area of it.

I did love that unit even though the button presses were quirky (to the extreme). I doubt if I could figure out how to use it without a lot of practice and studying the poorly written (translated maybe), manual.

I gave mine away (too).

 

[bluzjamer]

I have an AOR 1000

Bought it new ...forget where. Works OK for a few minutes then while you still see it scanning you can't hear any transmissions.
Who repairs these and is it worthwhile to get it fixed?
Bob in RI

 

[johnwashington]

I believe mine is pre 1986 and the electronic privacy act not sure though but I was told if i sent it in for repairs it would be modified so as not to receive cell phone signals. I hardly ever use it and have no interest in listening to cell phones,

 

[bluzjamer]

aor 1000

Yeah, privacy act...don't think it makes much difference since most cells these days can't be picked up and I don't think anyone uses any of the old ones. What ever happened to the simple privacy act of not broadcasting what you don't want heard.
Don't think they could legally alter a radio that was sent in for a fix. Not a big deal as I don't want to listen to cells anyway.
Unit is a bear to program, I just wanted to listen to some police and fire while power was out due to Irene.

 

[commscanaus]

Worst scanner I ever bought. Intermod brick!

Horrible, horrible scanner.

Put me off AOR equipment for many years.

Saved for ages to buy one back in 1991 when I had started my first job out of school.
It would pick up *everything* all up and down the bands, sometimes all at once.
Programming was a nightmare and it liked to lock up needing to be reset completely.

Sold it to another hobbyist for around half what I paid for it and hoped it didn't end up coming back through one of the house windows!

Eventually got an AOR AR8000 which is a magnificent radio.

Commscanaus.

 

[Turbo68]

I got the Aor-1000 straight away pain in back side to programm hooked up a few different antennas problem was didnt pick up anything swapped it for another that was an improvement after exchanged it 3 times in 2 months got my money back and i was a bit scepticale when i bought the Aor-8000 but that was an excellent hand held receiver regret selling it.

Regards Lino.