Before adding a new product use the "Search" tool on reviews Home page to determine if that product already exists in a category.Ĥ. ![]() ![]() The delay can vary from minutes to a day or more.ģ. The delay is for new review screening and approval. There's a delay before newly submitted reviews are Approved and posted in eHam's reviews. eHam's Product Reviews are a database of ham radio related products and services personal opinions.Ģ. France and Belgium has gone digital in the mean time, Germany will follow around 2010ġ. I hope someday we will have a scanner introduced here into Europe that can read those digital signals called "Tetra", which is become a standard in Europe. The end of the 2006 ? No there are still Airbands to listen too! In the year 2003 police, firefighters, ambulances they all moved in the Netherlands to digital in the UHF range 380 - 410 Mhz. My display faded a wellknown problem and I will replace it some day. Running almost 24 hours a day never had a problem ! It's going on and on and on. I did the 800 Mhz mod and some others, found in the Internet. Since then it gave me hundreds of hours enjoyable listening to police, firefighters and so on. I bought the Pro 2006 at a Tandy store in the Netherlands in 1993, new out of the box. Thus I wouldn’t spend more than $50-60.00 for a used PRO-2006, or look for a 9000XLT that you can pick up used for about the same price. I’m not saying don’t buy one of these if it will fill your bill, just be prepared that you might be bit with the LCD that sometimes has trouble with the test of time. I have a Bearcat 9000XLT about the same age as this that was given to me used 10 years ago, and it has needed no repairs at all with performance that is just about on equal with the PRO-2006 with a better, less Radio-Shack-ish (read cheap) feel to its construction, a nicer matrix LCD with alpha capability, and a jogger/tuning dial. I replaced one faded LCD on mine, and now the replacement is starting to fade away also. Reading other reviews I learned I am not alone. I give it a four for its flawless performance on the radio end and general ease of operation, but truth be told at least in my experiences it’s not as reliable as some make it out to be, mainly in the display section. I think it's simply a classic, and if you have analog comm's in your area, at the current used price range, this is one hell of a great radio. But this thing is crazy modifiable, to be sure. Sure, I did all the mods that everyone knows about, and for the most part they are all worth doing, or at least trying out, but I returned some of the mods to the normal circuitry because they just weren't useful to my needs. I have replaced the display backlight twice - once in the early '90s when I actually ordered a replacement part, and then again about ten years later, when I finally got an EL strip and it's been perfect ever since, about 15 years ago. This scanner is just fine for all of that. ![]() In my location most of the public service/emergency entities are still analog, and there are a LOT of them in this region (sw MO Ozarks). As I type, my decades-old 2006 is scanning away as ever, not as fast as more modern scanners but it still does the job fine.
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