In _Ultimate Scanner_ (Cheek3) you mention the Pro-2005 (along with the good 
ol' 2004, 2006, and 2035) as good ultimate scanner starting points, but it's 
fairly obvious that the 2005 isn't your favorite by a longshot. Well, guess 
which one is the *only* one I've been able to find around here?  Ayep, the 
Pro-2005.
I ran into a guy who was just salivating over my unmodified Pro-43, and 
offered me a 2005 (with certain unmentionable bands restored :-) and various 
other stuff (that was way over my scanner-newbie head) in trade. This was 
enough to get my interest, but I've really fallen in love with the Pro-43 and 
balked.  The guy was a good sport and to show there were no hard feelings he 
restored some bands to my Pro-43, taking about 5 minutes where it would have 
taken me hours.
Incidentally, he'd heard of the sound mod for the Pro-43 (remove C341) but 
had never tried it.  He hadn't heard at all of shorting to D5 as a hack to 
tune in shortwave.  But he was a wizard at moving D4 to D3.  :-)
Anyway, basically what I'm doing here is a) rambling aimlessly after being up 
for 36 hours and b) fishing for comments about the 2005.  For a guy who 
probably will never do anything beyond perhaps adding data squelch or 
clipping a diode to speed up scan rate (i.e. no memory mod or computer 
interface) is the Pro-2005 really such a bad choice?  It seems the stuff I'm 
wanting (not just dream talk of dual tuners, but stuff I could really use) 
like CB reception, broadcast FM reception, a few hundred channels, sound/data 
squelch, etc appear to be available in/for the 2005.  Sure, I can get all 
this in the highest-priced scanners currently sold by Radio Shack (minus a 
few bands), but somehow that doesn't seem as satisfying...
... A liar won't believe anyone else.
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