[Motorola] Was Encoder, Now MICOR and Channel Elements....

[Walter Howard]

They were sent to the surplus property section of the dept of
administration.
http://www.azdoa.gov/msd/surplus/

My agency is not allowed to dispose of items that have had inventory tags.
Only surplus property can.
Therefore we cannot allow ANY interests to have 'first pick'.

Any 'agency' the 'de-mils' [we call that 'surplus with extreme prejudice']
any radios is working against the public good, and usually against the law,
in that there was residual value that the agency/governmental entity could
have recovered.

The radios we sent to 'Surplus' will be put together in lots and sold to the
highest bidder.
I see plenty of radios from agencies in my state showing up on eBay in very
usable condition.

The next auction in Arizona is on January 31st.
Any local hams looking for UHF and a few VHF MII's would be well advised to
go to the viewing and attend the auction.
I am prohibited from bidding on anything I had even tangential contact with,
otherwise I probably would.
And a fair number of older UHF cavities should be there.

Agencies that are narrowbanding, moving to P25 or trunked systems will be
doing similar 'surplussing'.

Look around for 'surplus property' or DMRO [military] in your area.
Lots of interesting stuff is available for direct sale, or auctions.

WalterH

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Eric Lemmon <wb6fly at verizon.net> wrote:

> Walter,
>
> Part of the problem is that most state agencies don't dispose of their
> surplus radios through an Amateur Radio club- they just dump them into an
> electronic recycler's scrap bin.  Government agencies, the military in
> particular, actually "de-mil" such equipment by crushing with a bulldozer
> or
> beating it with a sledgehammer until it has no intact parts.  Unless there
> is a person with screening authority to divert the radios where they can be
> converted to Amateur use, many if not most of them are not salvageable
> after
> being reduced to broken scrap.
>
> Does your agency make any attempt to let Ham clubs and MARS units acquire
> surplus radio equipment?  What happened to the 20 radios you just excessed?
>
> 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
>
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