You may see some changes coming up with Radio Shack's scanner line-up!

No longer listed on their web site:

PRO-95 (expected)
PRO-2051 (expected)
PRO-2052 (expected)
PRO-2096 (not expected)

Bill Crocker

"Bill Crocker" wrote in message

You may see some changes coming up with Radio Shack's scanner line-up!

No longer listed on their web site:

PRO-95 (expected)
PRO-2051 (expected)
PRO-2052 (expected)
PRO-2096 (not expected)

Bill Crocker


Why the Pro-2052 ? It's an excellent scanner.

H.J.

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:54:56 -0600, "Honest John"
wrote:

"Bill Crocker" wrote in message

PRO-2052 (expected)

Why the Pro-2052 ? It's an excellent scanner.

The price ended in $x.97, so its demise was expected. RS changes the
price like that when an item is doing to be discontinued.

"Al Klein" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:54:56 -0600, "Honest John"
wrote:

"Bill Crocker" wrote in message

PRO-2052 (expected)

Why the Pro-2052 ? It's an excellent scanner.

The price ended in $x.97, so its demise was expected. RS changes the
price like that when an item is doing to be discontinued.

I didn't necessarily mean "how" one could detect if a R.S. product will be
discontinued but "why" R.S. would discontinue such an excellent scanner as
the Pro-2052. I'm missing some obscure fact as to why the R.S. execs. would
chose to axe this particular scanner when they came out with such inferior
scanners that desperately need to be axed.

I have another question, the two times I tried to order the computer program
that would allow me to control the scanner from my computer met with
comments like: They discontinued that, or We can't get it in this store.
Anyone know the "real" story of the advertised computer program that some,
including myself, couldn't get ?

H.J. (still programming my scanner with one finger instead of ten)

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 07:29:55 -0600, "Honest John"
wrote:

I didn't necessarily mean "how" one could detect if a R.S. product will be
discontinued but "why" R.S. would discontinue such an excellent scanner as
the Pro-2052.

RS's rationale isn't how good a scanner is, it's how profitable it is.

I'm missing some obscure fact as to why the R.S. execs. would
chose to axe this particular scanner when they came out with such inferior
scanners that desperately need to be axed.

The "inferior" ones bring in profit - the axed ones don't. It's not
obscure at all.

I have another question, the two times I tried to order the computer program
that would allow me to control the scanner from my computer met with
comments like: They discontinued that, or We can't get it in this store.
Anyone know the "real" story of the advertised computer program that some,
including myself, couldn't get ?

Which program are you talking about? The only one RS ever sold (that
I know of) is discontinued, and it wasn't all that good to begin with.
Get Don Starr's program for whichever scanner you have, and you won't
be sorry. (I have nothing to do with either RS or Don, but I write
software and I recognize good stuff when I see [and use] it.)
http://www.starrsoft.com

"Al Klein" wrote in message

Get Don Starr's program for whichever scanner you have, and you won't
be sorry. (I have nothing to do with either RS or Don, but I write
software and I recognize good stuff when I see [and use] it.)
http://www.starrsoft.com

Thanks, very much !!

H.J.

"Al Klein" wrote in message

Which program are you talking about?

Found it:

http://www.pro2052.com/

"Al Klein" wrote in message Get Don Starr's program
for whichever scanner you have, and you won't
be sorry. (I have nothing to do with either RS or Don, but I write
software and I recognize good stuff when I see [and use] it.)
http://www.starrsoft.com


You are correct that Don Starr writes excellent software, ie; Win95, Win96,
Win97, etc. Unfortunately he doesn't write software for the PRO-2052. All
of Don's software is for Radio Shack (GRE manufactured) radios. The Radio
Shack PRO-2052 is manufactured for them by Uniden.

Some of the software that supports the PRO-2052 is:

ScanPro2052
ScanControl
ScanCat Lite Plus

Bill Crocker

There is a free program for the Pro-2052
I use it alot..and it may not have some of the extra stuff that the
other program mentioned has but being free and it does work quite well
I have been using it for a while and it works great

it says it is for win9x but I imagine it would work on XP as well

you can find it at

http://www.qsl.net/kd5lmy/software1.htm

Al Klein wrote:

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 07:29:55 -0600, "Honest John"
wrote:


I didn't necessarily mean "how" one could detect if a R.S. product will be
discontinued but "why" R.S. would discontinue such an excellent scanner as
the Pro-2052.


RS's rationale isn't how good a scanner is, it's how profitable it is.


I'm missing some obscure fact as to why the R.S. execs. would
chose to axe this particular scanner when they came out with such inferior
scanners that desperately need to be axed.



The "inferior" ones bring in profit - the axed ones don't. It's not
obscure at all.


I have another question, the two times I tried to order the computer program
that would allow me to control the scanner from my computer met with
comments like: They discontinued that, or We can't get it in this store.
Anyone know the "real" story of the advertised computer program that some,
including myself, couldn't get ?


Which program are you talking about? The only one RS ever sold (that
I know of) is discontinued, and it wasn't all that good to begin with.
Get Don Starr's program for whichever scanner you have, and you won't
be sorry. (I have nothing to do with either RS or Don, but I write
software and I recognize good stuff when I see [and use] it.)
http://www.starrsoft.com


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"DanOfWA" wrote in message

There is a free program for the Pro-2052


Thanks !!

H.J.