Looking for anyone that has information about and AOR model 2002 scanner.
The model number 2002 is posted on the back of the scanner but when turned
on - 2515 is displayed.

I cannot seem to get any signal or noise out of the scanner - when
programming, I do not see any button that indicates ENTER???? maybe I
cant get any sound until I program a channel???

The back of the scanner has a REMOTE plug??? must the remote plugged in to
receive?????? The REMOTE plug is not with the scanner???

Thanks

Tom

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Looking for anyone that has information about and AOR model 2002 scanner.
The model number 2002 is posted on the back of the scanner but when turned
on - 2515 is displayed.

I cannot seem to get any signal or noise out of the scanner - when
programming, I do not see any button that indicates ENTER???? maybe I
cant get any sound until I program a channel???

The AR2515 was a "product" of ACE Communications some years ago who
were, at the time the distributors of AOR equipment in the USA.

ACE Communications modified AOR AR2002's by replacing the main processor
board. It was not an AOR Japan product. The end result was 1984 memory
channels together with 12 search banks and a scanner that, at the time
was considerably faster than anything else and to say the least far more
memory.

The 1984 channels are organised into 62 banks 32 channels. You cannot
program frequencies into specific "channels" within each bank as the
main CPU organised each bank into numerical order. It didn't matter
which order you keyed frequencies in they would be sorted numerically.
The reason for this highlighted one of the AR2515 problems in so much as
the replacement CPU ran faster through the channels that the original
AR2002's PLL circuitry could keep up with. By numerically going up
through the bank it helped the PLL in locking up a little quicker and
allowing the '2515 to stop when it "heard" a transmission.

When you do program the unit up it would also be a good idea to perhaps
organise you banks in progressively increasing frequency areas.

You could scan a single bank or link any number of banks together.

Banks 63 to 78 were search banks where you could add a lower and upper
limit together with mode and increment step to search between - again
the unit was very fast compared to others but at times ran a little too
fast for its own good. Having the "DELAY" on was usually a necessity.

The firmware used by ACE in the AR2515 was later used by AOR in the
AR2500 receiver. The operating manual for the AR2600 is available on the
AOR UK web site which may help.

http://www.aoruk.com/pdf/ar2500m.pdf

The back of the scanner has a REMOTE plug??? must the remote plugged in to
receive?????? The REMOTE plug is not with the scanner???

ACE also changed the original "Remote" socket on the back of the radio
to a 25 way RS232 serial connection. The original software released by
ACE was produced by a firm called Gesmundo.

Hope that helps.
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Cheers,
JC
Javiation - Scanners & receivers from all the leading manufacturers
http://www.javiation.co.uk

When you do program the unit up it would also be a good idea to perhaps
organise you banks in progressively increasing frequency areas.

Although that's the way the scanner came preprogrammed from the factory, it is
better to program the scanner with progressively lower frequency banks.

That is because the scanner scans each bank from highest to lowest frequency,
but scans linked banks upward, numerically.

If you have bank one containing frequencies from 151 to 160 MHz, and bank two
containing frequencies from 161 to 173 MHz, the scanner will scan bank one ...
and end at 151 MHz ... then have to jump to 173 MHz to begin scanning bank two.

In that arrangement, there is more chance of missing active frequencies in the
upper frequency range of bank two ... due to the frequency separation between
151 and 173 MHz.

The manual says that separation should be kept under 25 MHz., but I have noted
missed active channels with less than 10 MHz separation.