They were coveted by the MilAir listener and helped create a large cottage Its wide-open frequency coverage actually caused it toīe recalled from stores to have the cellular frequencies blocked, this wasĮasily defeated however, and the radio even had the proper spacing for them. It had 300 channels when 16 was considered average and 50 wasĬonsidered remarkable. PRO2004 was introduced in 1986 and was probably the most revolutionary scanner Shack had a great advantage in that they had a huge retail infrastructureĪround the world and for years sold a wide range of scanners. Whistler continued to produce scanners for Radio Shack based on the Whistler designs for a short time and afterwards brought out their own line of WS and later the TRX scanners. Coincidentally both Radio Shack and GRE closed up operations for different reasons at about the same time and Whistler Group bought the GRE product line. Later they developed their own line in parallel with the Radio Shack line. GRE built and designed many scanners for Radio Shack back in the day. This scanner was in the shape of one of these cartridgesĪnd had 4 crystal-controlled channels. Large plastic cartridges in the days before cassette tapes, they were wildly For those too young to know what that was, anĨ-track player was used to listen to music recorded on magnetic tape held in Were also a few real duds here and there. Today at the time they were introduced they really made a huge impact. While some are obviously dated and obsolete The ones I discuss are scanners that I think helped define the market at the You have a favorite scanner that you think should be listed please let us know!
Scanners that introduced new features, made other features popular or just were so darn good that they are beloved by the community will be discussed here. There are certain scanners that, much more than others, are so remarkable that they change the market or make a lasting impression on the hobby. We all love scanners, you would not be reading this if you didn’t.
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