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- RADIO SHACK 2004 EXPANDED COVERAGE:
-
-
- 1. Remove the 4 philips screws on the back of the unit that
- hold the case onto the chassis.
-
- 2. Slide the radio out of the case by pushing it out the front.
- Or, put another way, slide the case back, off the radio.
-
- 3. Once you've eased the radio out, turn it upside down with the
- front toward you.
-
- 4. Locate a board with "PC-3" stenciled on it in big white letters.
- It is roughly in the middle of the radio near the back.
- There is a rectangular, highly reflective (mirror-like) metal
- cover covering most of this board.
-
- 5. Gently remove this metal cover. It is held on by being press-fit
- over little metal dimples. A little careful prying will do the
- trick here.
-
- 6. Once the cover is off you should see the main CPU chip on the
- right, a resonator crystal (501-X I think?) in the rear right
- corner, and a vertical row of diodes to the left of the CPU chip.
- Some of diode positions will be lableled like this D-509, D-510,
- D-511, D-512, *D-513*, etc. I don't remember exactly which ones
- are labled or not, but that's not so important right now, you
- should get the idea.
-
- 7. The diode D-513 is labled (I know) and this is the beastie that
- disables the cellular phone frequencies and their 30KHz search
- step size. Snip this diode with diagonal cutters (or whatever).
- Make sure the snipped wire ends are not touching, and viola!
- You've got full 800MHz coverage on your Pro-2004.
-
- 8. You may want to test it at this point. (Try entering 880 MHz or
- some other previously disabled 800MHz frequency, and verify that
- you don't get an ERROR.) Re-assemble.
-
- PS: There is a TURBO-Scan mod where you can up the scan speed to
- around 30ch/s by replacing the resonator crystal in step 6 with a
- 10MHz version. Also, by soldering in a diode in what would be diode
- position D-510 (if it were labled) you can add 10 channels to each
- bank for a total of 400 ch. The problem with this is that then the
- keypad's labelling for channel banks becomes incorrect. You should
- get and verify the complete details on the mods in this "PS" because
- I can't supply you with complete instructions that I am 100% sure
- about on these. I'm just letting you know they're possible...
-
- A carrier operated light for the PRO-2004 [repost]
-
- Several PRO-2004 owners have asked for a repost of this article:
-
-
- A CARRIER OPERATED LIGHT FOR THE PRO-2004 SCANNER
-
- by Bob Parnass, AJ9S
-
- The July 1988 issue of Monitoring Times suggested that it
- may be easy to add an S-meter to the Radio ShackO PRO-
- 2004 scanner:
-
- "...But adding an "S" meter is even easier than previ-
- ously thought. Pin 10 on the IF amplifier (IC1) is an
- "S" meter output. With the proper bridge or meter
- buffer/amplifier an "S" meter is reality...."
-
- Brace yourself for disappointment - the integrated cir-
- cuit mentioned in the article is used for WBFM only.
- Despite the internal IC block diagram in the service
- manual, pin 10 on my PRO-2004 is useful as an S-meter
- output only when the radio is in the WBFM mode.
-
- Between pin 10 and ground, I placed a 10,000 ohm resistor
- in series with a 250 microamp meter for a simple test
- setup. The meter read full scale on strong signals.
- With no signal at all, the meter read about 70% of full
- scale. When the mode is set to AM or NBFM, the meter was
- always at zero.
-
- One could add a brie circuit here, but this metering
- point is of limited utility.
-
-
- Add a Light Instead
-
- With a room full of functioning scanners, it's difficult
- to determine quickly which radio is "talking." I use
- separate external speakers on each radio, and the spatial
- separation helps.
-
- In addition to "hearing" which radio is active, I like to
- "see" which radio is active, and carrier operated lights
- are effective at providing such visual cues. The idea is
- to illuminate a lamp when a signal opens the squelch. A
- small yellow light emitting diode (LED, another Bell Labs
- invention) is well suited to this purpose. The following
- modification works well on all PRO-2004 modes.
-
- To add a COR light to the PRO-2004, make use of the "scan
- control" pin (pin 13) on IC2, the TK10420 IC. Pin 13 has
- voltage present only when a signal is detected. This
- chip contains the IF, detector, limiter, and squelch cir-
- cuitry for NBFM.
-
- If you tremble with an electric drill in your hands, read
- no further. The LED can be mounted in a small hole
- drilled through the plastic front panel, just to the
- right of the headphone jack.
-
- Electronically, the circuit is simple. The voltage at
- pin 13 is not enough to drive the LED directly, so a gen-
- eral purpose NPN transistor (e.g., a 2N2222) can be used
- as a solid state switch.
- - Pin 13 of IC2 is connected to the transistor base
- through a 10,000 ohm resistor.
-
- - The emitter is grounded.
-
- - The collector is connected through a 1000 ohm resis-
- tor to one end of an LED. This resistor limits the
- LED current to about 13 milliamps.
-
- - The other end of the LED is connected to one contact
- on the rear of the PRO-2004's on/off, volume con-
- trol. This furnishes about 14 VDC unregulated circuontacire cs co
- ounteon afastea
-