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!
@MikesMovies3 ай бұрын
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-vk7hse3 ай бұрын
@@MikesMovies Electroluminescent Tape is what I call el-tape.
@ScottEvans-vk7hse3 ай бұрын
@@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.
@shammon13 ай бұрын
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.
@MikesMovies2 ай бұрын
How you getting on with it?
@shammon12 ай бұрын
@@MikesMovies Very well, I replaced the back light strip and cleaned up the board. Rapid scanner, great fun👍
@MikesMovies2 ай бұрын
@@shammon1 Oo interesting, what did you use and do to replace the backlight?
@shammon12 ай бұрын
@@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
@MikesMovies2 ай бұрын
@@shammon1 Excellent info thanks
@aldo3ortiz2 ай бұрын
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.
@MikesMovies2 ай бұрын
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
@aldo3ortiz2 ай бұрын
@@MikesMovies Thank you, I really appreciate the input.
@mariaviklund45463 ай бұрын
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?.
@MikesMovies3 ай бұрын
ah yes I remember now, thanks. Got a link for amazon?