[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] Motorola GTX-900 Handheld Radios

[IT2 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR]

Rick, et alia,

While indeed the quality of most Motorola products impels one to  
reasonably have an expectation of excellence, I'd be very careful to  
get a sample of or two of these radios first before imploring everyone  
to buy them.

Why? Because they operate using companded audio, and when I have used  
them on commercial systems their quality has been far beneath the  
level of stellar quality I have always know from Motorola (bearing in  
mind these were systems customers paid in the millions to have  
designed and deployed by Motorola). Moreover, this apparently (at the  
time I had played with them circa 10 years ago) was a known fact, and  
was why Motorola was selling far more 800 MHz systems over 900 Mhz  
systems, given there was a glut of 900 MHz licenses available on the  
commercial bands.

A friend from Motorola actually lent me indefinitely a Motorola 900  
MHz radio to use on a repeater he owned, after a month and a half I  
gave the radio back and went back to speaking to him on 440 (and he  
was not even trying to sell me the 900 MHz radio).


V/R,


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