On Dec 27, 1:35*pm, Stray Dog wrote:
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, joeturn wrote:
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:37:46 -0800 (PST)
From: joeturn
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Subject: Radio Shack Pro 2011 scanner schematic

Service manuals are hard to come by anymore but I'll bet this guy can
fix you right up!

http://www.qsl.net/ka2pyj/pro2011.htm

I have a pro 2096 I bought off ebay for $50.00 as a tech special
guaranteed to be DOA

I shiped it to rat shack and they returned it saying parts no longer
available now I'm at $84.00 and counting!

I found on fixya, a problem with the ribbon connections but the tech
said the 103 pin chip was shorted!!

I refuse to believe that as it was one of the first batch that could
be modified to no gap status!! ! Now what shall I do??

There are guys who will go to the limits to repair DOA gear.

Maybe some other guys here will encourage you with suggestions. My
suggestion is, unless there are some very unique technical specifications
that you really need, to cut your losses up to this point and buy
something that you have a high probability expectation will work, out of
the box, and has some warranty protection (which usually means they may
just give you a new device instead of fixing the old one).

I know someone who is working on a dead ham transceiver, all solid state
and major ricebox brand, who has already spent enormous numbers of hours
with little progress and with the full knowledge that most of the chips
and sub-assemblies are no longer available or supported by the company.

We have been in this "new" throw-away economy evern since chips started
coming out where the technology understandably must progress in a manner
that automatically makes obsolete the prior generation of technology for
the purpose of causing ownership of capabilities to be more expensive than
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Things like the PRO 2011 are fun to repair. It was built before chip
componets.

Jimmie