AubreyCTurnerJr
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I've been lurking on these forums for a while, and I've learned quite a bit. Anyhow, I've got an interesting one for the Radio Shack experts here.
I'd been contemplating putting together a webcasting setup for our local police/fire trunking system, and the recent sale on the Pro-2052 gave me the impetus to get started. I've got my icecast server and broadcaster set up and ready to go, and tested with output from my Pro-95.
So I went down the Radio Shack today to get the 2052, and they only had two left--the display model and one in a box. I bought the scanner and a serial cable, brought it home, plugged in the power, entered my local trunking frequencies and talkgroup ID's and had it working. So then I thought I'd go ahead and move it to the computer when I saw that it didn't have a serial port (!). Since I was planning to grab the talkgroup ID's via serial and put them into the icecast stream, this was a bit of a problem.
I double-checked the model number, just to be sure I wasn't accidentally given a unit that looked similar to the 2052. It said Pro-2052 on the front and had "Model 20-432" on the back. I took it back to Radio Shack and the lady there was just as confused as I was after comparing it to the display model. Despite having the same model number and SKU, the display model had a serial port and mine didn't. They gave me the display model in exchange, and it seems to work (at least the scanner part, I haven't tried the serial yet).
I did several searches on this site as well as Google (using terms like "pro-2052 serial" and "pro-2052 without serial") and didn't find anything.
Was there ever a version of the Pro-2052 that didn't have a DB9 serial port? Unfortunately, I didn't write down the date code of that unit. I do recall that it didn't appear to make sense to me, since I thought the sticker was supposed to have the month/year (like 08A99), but this one had an extra letter (something like 01XA7).
I'd been contemplating putting together a webcasting setup for our local police/fire trunking system, and the recent sale on the Pro-2052 gave me the impetus to get started. I've got my icecast server and broadcaster set up and ready to go, and tested with output from my Pro-95.
So I went down the Radio Shack today to get the 2052, and they only had two left--the display model and one in a box. I bought the scanner and a serial cable, brought it home, plugged in the power, entered my local trunking frequencies and talkgroup ID's and had it working. So then I thought I'd go ahead and move it to the computer when I saw that it didn't have a serial port (!). Since I was planning to grab the talkgroup ID's via serial and put them into the icecast stream, this was a bit of a problem.
I double-checked the model number, just to be sure I wasn't accidentally given a unit that looked similar to the 2052. It said Pro-2052 on the front and had "Model 20-432" on the back. I took it back to Radio Shack and the lady there was just as confused as I was after comparing it to the display model. Despite having the same model number and SKU, the display model had a serial port and mine didn't. They gave me the display model in exchange, and it seems to work (at least the scanner part, I haven't tried the serial yet).
I did several searches on this site as well as Google (using terms like "pro-2052 serial" and "pro-2052 without serial") and didn't find anything.
Was there ever a version of the Pro-2052 that didn't have a DB9 serial port? Unfortunately, I didn't write down the date code of that unit. I do recall that it didn't appear to make sense to me, since I thought the sticker was supposed to have the month/year (like 08A99), but this one had an extra letter (something like 01XA7).
