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- PRO2004
- 6,400 CHANNELS FOR YOUR PRO-2004 SCANNER
-
- by Bob Parnass, AJ9S
-
- Chicagoan Denny Beringer sent in a few sheets he picked up at Dayton
- describing a modification to expand the memory in the Radio Shack PRO-2004
- scanner from 300 to 6,400 channels.
-
- The new circuitry adds 3 ICs, a 7 segment readout, a ribbon cable, a
- pushbutton switch, and a few resistors and capacitors.
-
- First, diode D510 is added which expands the scanner from 300 to 400
- channels. Then, IC504, the stock memory memory IC (a uPD446G), is removed and
- replaced by a ribbon cable leading to an added printed circuit board. The
- additional board contains an HM62256 32Kx8 static RAM IC, which holds 16
- groups of 400 channels each. (note: if you don't do diode D510, I think
- you'll get 4800 channels, though I haven't tried any of this. I heard that the
- 400 channel mod makes the markings on the 2004 keyboard incorrect. WA2ISE)
- CONTINUED IN FILE PRO2004.1