Concerning _1997 RS CATALOG (CANA_, Bill Funk said to Troy H. Cheek in 
SCANRADIO:
 TH>> IIRC, since 1994, Radio Shack no longer builds (or has built for
 TH>> them) scanners that are cellular capable and "blocks" that ability
 TH>> when selling the scanners in the States.  Instead, they have
 TH>> scanners built that don't have that capability in the first place.
 BF>
 BF> That's not right.
 BF> Radio Shack sells scanners in more places than just the US and
 BF> Canada; the units sold in Europe are, as a rule, *not* cellular
 BF> blocked. There are more than a few US scanner owners who've gotten
 BF> the European models or the European CPU boards for their US-spec
 BF> scanners.
I'm not explaining myself properly.  In my mind...
"Scanner can do it if you add/cut a diode." = blocked.  For example, cellular 
on many pre-1994 scanners, the 55-88 MHz range of the Pro-43, etc.
"Scanner can do it if you make non-trivial changes to the hardware or change 
the programming." = scanner doesn't have that capability.  For example, 
cellular on many more recent scanners, the 1000-1300 MHz range of the Pro-43, 
etc.
In my mind, there's a big difference between, for instance, a US Pro-2006 
which can be cellular-restored by clipping a single diode, and a US Pro-2042 
which can (well, may) be cellular-enabled by performing brain surgery.
Or "liberating" 100 channels in the Pro-2004 by clipping a diode vs. "adding" 
thousands of channels by wiring in a new RAM chip.
... ROA #194:  It's always good business to know about new customers before 
they walk in the door.
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