Less and less... more Government Agencies out here end up dumping the equipment at metal salvage locations. Here on the left coast they seem to be less interested in making it easy for the public to buy their surplus items in any decent kind of a deal.
So I ended up buying racks of MSR-2000 Gear by the pound in addition to Mastr ii repeaters that went to the chopper still mounted in their Chatsworth aluminum racks. Also making the salvage death trip was an entire Motorola Type 2 trunking system... My trailer was only so big... and full. s. > I'm not too disappointed, since us hams will be the > beneficiaries. > Bob NO6B > >The disappointing part of narrow banding is the text in > >the below message. I've been able to narrow band a heck > >of a lot of repeater equipment. Surplus repeaters and > >radio equipment are a gold mine to innovative and motivated > >radio people, who are willing to do both the homework and > >technical work. > > > >It's a lot more expensive and sad to think a lot of > >equipment is being replaced, when other viable options > >are available. > > > >s. > >
