[TrunkCom] digital decoder plug-in

Fri, 11 Jan 2002 02:22:32 -0500

Brian - Dude, you are right on! Motorola transceiver can't come close to the 
capabilities of a scanner if you are receiving only.  I know M-RF thinks of 
himself as the be all know all of commercial radios, but he has fallen prey 
to all of the Monkeyrola hype.  What is the purpose of paying $900 for a one 
band radio that you have to hook to a computer every time you want to change 
something? All you want to do is receive. I just got through checking out a 
Motorola HT1250 I was thinking of buying. It has 128 channels and 16 zones 
with alpha display.  What a piece of crap.  It only scans 16 channels at a 
time and the display is so hard to see you can't read it unless you look 
straight at it and you can't keyboard program it.  All of this for $650 
used. I can buy a ham transceiver and transmit on two to three bands and 
program it from the keyboard.  I guess MOTO transceivers are ok for what 
they are designed for which is business and PS communications.  I'm afraid 
M-RF has completely missed the boat if he thinks you can replace a scanner 
with an overpriced one band Motorola.

----Original Message Follows----
From: Brian J Cathcart <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TrunkCom] digital decoder plug-in
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:33:19 -0500

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:16:55 -0500 iDEN-Test Port-Marcelrf
<[email protected]> writes:
 > The price is too high Uniden has a 38% mark-up on their p-25 card.
 > You do the math.....

OK, 24 bands of coverage, Motorola, EDACS, LTR, WFM, AM, FM, digital,
face programmable, NOAA WX alert, trunk ID search, frequency
search....all equals $630.  Astro Saber with one band and one trunking
type, equals $975.  That works out to a $345 difference.  Hmmm, now I can
buy another scanner for my car.....

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The Scanner Dude
Brian J. Cathcart - KE4PMJ
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