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> Re: Spectrum Communications Equipment > (900 MHz transmitter SCT 1500) > kf4...@... wrote: > I found this for sale on ebay. > Spectrum Communications 900 Mhz transmitter SCT 1500 > ... can someone point me to more information on it? Re: Spectrum Communications Equipment (900 MHz transmitter SCT 1500) Spectrum was an East Coast Company with probably the worst customer service record of any radio equipment company that every tried to stay in business long term. I will say my conversation with them 2 years back was pretty good... they were willing to at least support reprogramming a bipolar prom ID'er chip for me... be it a $50 each charge. I received a heads up last year the owner was trying to sell out and retire... but it seems no one purchased the Company and they closed. Spectrum Equipment is a love hate relationship with many people. I have a fair number of Spectrum Transmit and Receiver Strips and when properly attended to... they hold up fairly well. There are a few short-comings in some of their designs, which without decent customer support and resolution really pi$$ed a lot of people off. If you're a technical type and familiar with Spectrum Products they were nothing to be scared of when you could pick them up cheap enough. The 900 stuff was mostly paging and a small amount of Land Mobile two-way gear. Finding docs will be a bit of a beast but they can be found by asking people like me who have many of their product manuals scanned into free pdf files. Unless you can get it cheap and are willing to expect to have to work on it... it's probably better you steer clear of it. I tried to find the auction listing you mentioned but it had alreadyclosed. If you're trying to put a 900 box on the air... probably good to buy/go the converted Maxtrac or Kenwood radio path. If you want plug and play (no mods needed) the Kenwood TK-981 is a program and go radio, which makes a fairly nice repeater transmitter to drive a much larger RF Power Amplifier. cheers, skipp skipp025 at yahoo.com www.radiowrench.com
