PRO-197 display trick!

[KB9AA]

Can your PRO-197 do this upside down display? Walked into the ham shack to this. Recycling power yielded better results.

 

[buddrousa]

This is what happens when beer is spilled on the scanner
jokes aside never seen this on my 197

 

[tvengr]

Check out this thread: Radio Shack PRO-197 Display Characters going Backwards

 

[KevinC]

And the GRE versions...

Weird Display anomoly on PSR600

I noticed this morning that the PSR600 I use to monitor a local P25 system with Pro96Com was looking weird. The display almost looked like a mirror image or with some weird alien language... I turned off the radio and turned it back on and all was well with the world again. I did think to take...

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Very Strange...

I was just listening to my new PSR600 when I glanced at the display to see that the text on the display was backwards (like looking in a mirror). Strange thing was, I hadn't touched it at all. It just did this all by itself. I turned the scanner off and back on again and the problem cleared...

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[gmclam]

My answer is yes. I've seen the display in several "formats" including reversed (look at it in a mirror), upside down and both.

 

[ecps92]

Can your PRO-197 do this upside down display? Walked into the ham shack to this. Recycling power yielded better results.View attachment 154849

Not the upside down, but REVERSE display, when I've not resent the scanner in 30-45 days, as indicated in some prior threads.
This happens not only with the PRO but also the PSR

Simple power off, power on, then spend the next 45 min's Temp Lock out the Cable TV interference

 

[fxdscon]

Can your PRO-197 do this upside down display? Walked into the ham shack to this. Recycling power yielded better results.

Yep, reports of backwards and/or upside down displays on those scanners go back many years to shortly after they were first released.

 

[ka3aaa]

mine do that on occasion.

 

[rbluesky]

Can your PRO-197 do this upside down display? Walked into the ham shack to this. Recycling power yielded better results.View attachment 154849

Everybody KNOWS this you can do this with some Uniden scanners too

 

[rbluesky]

Can your PRO-197 do this upside down display? Walked into the ham shack to this. Recycling power yielded better results.View attachment 154849

That's not reversed that RUSSIAN !!! lol Ok Commrade

 

[fxdscon]

Everybody KNOWS this you can do this with some Uniden scanners too

You're thinking of the "Set Upside-Down" setting in the Uniden menu to purposely invert the display. The scanner the OP is showing did not have a selectable setting for that, it was a random fluke of the firmware in those scanners at the time.

 

[RMason]

There was a firmware revision for the PRO-197 that addressed this issue. See here: #21
Out of curiosity, what version firmware do you have?

CPU firmware version 1.8 provides the following enhancements to your Pro-106/Pro-197 trunked scanning receiver:
-Adds patch support for P25, Motorola and EDACS trunking
-Changes CCDump type string to "EDn" if "narrow invert" is turned on
-Corrects LCD “mirror image” issue

 

[tvengr]

I have CPU v2.1 in my 197 and 106 and have never seen the problem (or feature if you prefer).