Realistic PRO 2005 Tandy Scanner from 1989 does it work

[@ScottEvans-vk7hse]

I've restored a realistic 2021 & 2022 Scanners to working order. Had to replace the EL-Tape for the LCD backlight. Funny that one of the first places to find replacements was from a business in the UK!

[@MikesMovies]

Excellent work, I still need to do the display but I've re capped it a bit too and it works well. EL-tape?

[@ScottEvans-vk7hse]

@@MikesMovies Electroluminescent Tape is what I call el-tape.

[@ScottEvans-vk7hse]

@@MikesMovies I've tried pasting the url to the place in the UK sells the backlight but it looks like it's getting filtered by KZbin.

[@shammon1]

I got one of these last week for £15. It and had the BATT error flashing despite changing it. Found a solution was to bridge the pink wire from the front panel to earth and fixed it. I need to also fix the back light now but its a great scanner.

[@MikesMovies]

How you getting on with it?

[@shammon1]

@@MikesMovies Very well, I replaced the back light strip and cleaned up the board. Rapid scanner, great fun👍

[@MikesMovies]

@@shammon1 Oo interesting, what did you use and do to replace the backlight?

[@shammon1]

@@MikesMovies split the radio down and remove the front off it. Unscrew abd unsolder the back plate. Then unsolder the two backlight pins. It then slides out, I got a replacement screen from Elwirecraft for £8 in UK

[@MikesMovies]

@@shammon1 Excellent info thanks

[@aldo3ortiz]

Hi there, I'm a complete newbie about radios, but I'm getting into it. I’ve seen an advertisement recently that caught my eye of a Realistic 400 pro-2005. I would like to buy it, but I kind of remember watching a video saying that most of the frequencies nowadays, especially police, fire fighters, etc., are digital. I'm not sure, but I think the 400 pro-2005 is not digital, right? So, it would be fair to say this model of scanner is not that worthy anymore, isn't it? Am I correct? What could I still do with this kind of model? Thanks in advance.

[@MikesMovies]

Hey there. Emergency services are no longer receivable you are correct (UK) however this scanner can still get Aircraft civil and military, shipping, PMR and a host of other services. I'd recommend you joining one of the Facebook scanner forums. This is an old but capable scanner, you might like to look at one of the new ones such as The Uniden UBC125XLT is a compact 500-channel handheld scanner, which covers 25-88MHz, 108-174 MHz, 225-512 MHz, and 806-960 MHz with 5/6.25/8.33/10/12.5kHz can be had at a low cost and have the added facility of close call whereby they can lock onto local signals. Good luck

[@aldo3ortiz]

@@MikesMovies Thank you, I really appreciate the input.

[@mariaviklund4546]

Remember to L/OUT all the 000.0000 channels or you'll be scanning a lot of nothing :) And the electroluminecent panels can be bought for cheap on Amazon and be replaced. Maybe change color?.

[@MikesMovies]

ah yes I remember now, thanks. Got a link for amazon?

[@brianberthold3118]

not made by Tandy .. LOL

[@MikesMovies]

No, supplied by them but made by GRE in Japan