Radio Shack Pro-43

[experimental_pilot]

Hello,
I just want to get some more opinions on the Pro-43.
It has the VHF aircraft freqs. and the military air freqs. that I want.

Here are the specs.
http://home.ica.net/~phoenix/wap/Pro-43/

Here is the one Im looking at.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...amp;rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEWA:IT&rd=1

Should I get it?
Hopefully I can get a reply real soon! as the bidding ends in less than an hour!




Thanks!

 

[CORN]

I own one and it is worth it. If you can get it at a fairly good price. They retailed for around $300 or more when they first came out. It's a very good air band scanner. Great for airshows. So if it is reasonable, go for it!

 

[rbellows]

I bid on four of these blasted things and lost every one...if you can get it, take it. If you don't like it, let me know!!

 

[experimental_pilot]

I bid on four of these blasted things and lost every one...if you can get it, take it. If you don't like it, let me know!!

HAHA(jking) I just won one for $135.97 CDN.
I think I will like it, but if I dont I'll give you a shout.

 

[experimental_pilot]

Hey,
does the Pro-43 have a rechargable battery? If not can someone give me all the battery information(cells, volts, amps etc...), so I can have some rechargables made?




Thanks!

 

[Al42]

Hey,
does the Pro-43 have a rechargable battery? If not can someone give me all the battery information(cells, volts, amps etc...), so I can have some rechargables made?

Six AA cells.

 

[experimental_pilot]

Ok, I just got it and Im excited to use it! I haven't read the manual just yet.

Could someone tell me how I can tune just one specific freq. (118.350)?

The thing I can get it to do right now is scan and it seems to only be scanning the 800MHz range.




Thanks

 

[loumaag]

Could someone tell me how I can tune just one specific freq. (118.350)?

See my response on the other forum. But in answer to this:

1.  Press MANUAL.  Enter the channel number you want to program, the press  PGM.  PGM appears on the display to indicate the scanner is in the programming mode.

2.  Enter a frequency.

3.  Press ENTER to store the frequency.
    If you made a mistake in Step 2, ERROR appears on the display.  Press CLEAR and repeat Step 2.

4.  Press AM/FM to set the receive mode to the correct setting for the frequency. 

5.  If you want the scanner to pause 2 seconds after each transmission before scanning to the next channel, press DELAY so DLY appears in the display.

6.  Repeat Steps 1-5 to program more channels.  To program the next channel in sequence, press PGM and repeat Steps 2-5.  To change the programming direction, press [up] or [down] arrow before you press PGM.

 

[DaveNF2G]

Try visiting RadioShack.com - you might be able to find the manual for the PRO-43 in electronic format. It's been a while since I've looked there, so this might have changed, but some of the manuals are listed by catalog number (12-#### or whatever) instead of the PRO-## numbers that most people know, so the correct manual listing might not be obvious.

 

[loumaag]

The owner's manual is not available on line at the RS web site.

However there are several other documents, including the one I got that instruction set from, there.

 

[MacombMonitor]

Click here:

http://www.mods.dk/view.php?ModelId=594

They have a few mods for the PRO-43 you might want to look at. Also, the upper right area of the site shows a link for your manuals!

http://www.mods.dk/view.php?ListManuals=radio_shack

Not only the manual, but the Service Manual as well!

Hope this helps!