Yes, IMTS, and other modes on same system, is dead in USA. Verizon, old GTE, turned off theirs in 1994. I was working with a company to use the system, but they could not compete with the shirt pocket cel phones. Verizon at the time was using the system only for their execs giving free to them mobile phones. After some study they decided the shirt pocket phones were better and killed the whole sytem in one swoop...on one day/dead the next.
However, there are still systems in place. They are in places like South America where users are spread out over wide areas making a cel system not cost effective. I've seen sources of the old Motorola IMTS phones still new in the box being shipped outside the USA. There is still a market and have seen other manufacures with more modern protocalls using the frequencies. The Verizon tower about 10 miles from me is a cel phone site. I could have bought it for about $100k, but did not have the vision. It has to be bringing in about $60k/yr. I have 3 or 4 sets of crystals for the Micor for the system, but little interest. I am sure Verizon and others are keeping the freqs because once someone gets a commerical freq they are very reluctent to give it up. ron -- In [email protected], JOHN MACKEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there anywhere that still has old 35/43 MHz, 150 Mhz, or 450 MHz mobile > phone systems still active? > > ------ Original Message ------ > SNIP > > > You'd think it should be getting BETTER with all of the VHF/UHF paging > > > activity having dropped off in many areas, IMTS being dead (or in some > > > cases, the channels re-used for other purposes), etc., but that doesn't > seem > > > to be the case. Go figure. > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
