Curious what others do with your legacy / older scanners...?

[tomas21]

Curious what others do with your legacy / older scanners that don't get used as much...

I was going through my scanners today that have seen limited use over they years and curious what others use your older scanners for or sell them off?

Pro-97
Pro-106
Pro-668 w/ Whistler upgrade

 

[bkantor]

Mostly mine sit in a box - I do still use a few (Pro-2006) for specific monitoring purposes (e.g. Air band). I'm sure I am not the only one that has them collecting dust. I am considering selling some of them as I downsize post-retirement, but it's so hard to part with some of my "kids"

 

[Jbum1337]

I have a radio room of old radios,scanners,cbs,amateur radios ,tube type stuff I got a old bearcat electra 3 got some pretty neat stuff I have collected over about 20 years+ pretty much all of it works, mostly no mic and mic problems. I collect them.

 

[chief21]

I usually put my legacy scanners back in their original boxes and wait for the Smithsonian to call.

 

[KB4MSZ]

I always find some use for my older or less performing equipment.

 

[gmclam]

Is/was it a decent model? If so, keep it. Otherwise sell or use for parts.
I have had added discriminator taps to some. They are used to feed PCs (UniTrunker, etc.)
I have quite a few "older models" still running 24/7. There's a heck of a lot out there that is conventional VHF/UHF (analog).

 

[sprman1955]

I use mine still pro-60, pro 2006,and the GRE PSR-500 used for low band dx works great.

 

[Hit_Factor]

When new products are announced I start divesting current equipment. I have to battle the pack rat instinct everyday.

 

[prcguy]

I put my old Pro-43, Pro-2004, Pro-106 and others in that drawer I call a "collection".

 

[mmckenna]

Any of the old ones I had:
BC-100 - I think when it stopped working, I took it apart and reused some of the parts for other projects. I think I only recently tossed the old knobs.
Old AOR-something hand held, gave it to my brother.
BC-560 - Pretty sure I sold that at a ham fest.
BC-895 - Bought this at work to monitor my old systems. 25 years old, still chugging along listening to the few analog repeaters we still have.

I don't like storing things I'm never going to use, I'd rather make money off them, or pass them on to someone that can use them. If I can sell them or give them away, I tend to scrap them for parts and recycle whatever I can. I've sold all my old amateur gear, and made a surprising amount of money off the suckers on e-Bay. Even my old LMR gear is mostly gone off to e-Bay.

Thinking of making another run to one of the hamster-fests later on this spring.

 

[vagrant]

Dedicate to single frequency.

 

[bearcatrp]

I periodically fire up my pro 26 to listen to airband. Works about the same as my newer scanners. Has a fast scan rate.

 

[buddrousa]

By the time I decided to keep them Some were sold 70's 80's and 90's a few I still have but most were sold.

 

[6079smithw]

Curious what others do with your legacy / older scanners that don't get used as much...

Pro-97
Pro-106
Pro-668 w/ Whistler upgrade

Any one of those can be used as a "daily driver" here in NV as the major statewide systems are still EDACS. My Pro-97 is grinding away as we speak.

 

[rf_patriot200]

My old Uniden 780xlt uses no oil and very little blinker fluid, Still does it all well !

 

[PACNWDude]

I hoard all of my old stuff like the addiction that it is (and a career), then I try to find uses for them.

My work has me administering a large AstroTrbo Motorola network that spans the nation. However, there is still a lot of analog only systems, so I have a stack of Pro-2032's, Pro-2040 and Pro-2005 at my desk for monitoring various radio traffic in the area.

When the blue Angels show up, one of them gets to listen to their comms, otherwise is is tugs on the nearby river, or trains comms in the area.

 

[Omega-TI]

My area still uses analog for Police, Fire, Sheriff and Ambulance so I still use mine.

RCA 16S400 - Non visible area of the living room plugged into an Alexa switch. Whenever I hear a siren, I just say, "Computer.. scanner on".
Uniden/Bearcat 800XLT - On the headboard of the bed a perfect place for it's nice fluorescent display.

 

[a727469]

All sold except Bearcat 101 on display and RS Pro91 still used for a few local non truck 800 mhz.