Mike , Some of us Hams are Cheap ,  and learn by building things   But there
is actually a Few that  has the Money to  actually Buy them and as some get
older it is nice to be able to use plug and play Equipment  lol

 

PS I did see some pictures  at a Store called Spectronices in Oak Park
about 30 Yrs ago ,  of  pallets of Motorola Equipment  being sent to the
Dump because Mother M Did not want them back in service  to lose money ,  I
looked and Looked Never did find that dump Ha Ha 

 

Good Luck 

 

Don KA9QJG 

 

From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of k7...@skybeam.com
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:38 AM
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Looking For MSR2000 UHF RX and TX Boards

 

  

HI Joe,

 

We have access to 5 VHF MRS2000 repeaters and cant even get rid of them
since only people who will be able to use them are HAMS.

 

 

Mike Mullarkey K7PFJ

6886 Sage Ave

Firestone, Co 80504

303-736-9693 

 

 

  _____  

From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of burkleoj
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:34 AM
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Looking For MSR2000 UHF RX and TX Boards

 

  

Eric,
I don't think they are landfill material yet. I think you will find that
there is many of them still in service. 

I know in one of the sites here locally in Southern Oregon, my Micor ham
repeater is surrounded by 5 MSR2000 VHF repeaters still in commercial
service.

You have to remember that they were the replacement for the Micor line of
radio. Most agencies and businesses in a lot of areas that had Micor
repeaters did not replace them with the MSR2000 radios as Motorola had
hoped. 

When Motorola built the Micor it was over-designed, over-built, and super
reliable. Motorola sold them like hot cakes at a fireman's breakfast to just
about everybody that had a need for a repeater. When the MSR2000 came out
the Micor was still king of the mountain and most customers and tech's did
not see the need to replace a relatively new perfectly good working
repeater, simply because Motorola had a new offering.

In my experiences and observations there was a fewer number of the MSR
series of radios that were sold when compared to the Micor series.

I have seen quite a few of MSR VHF repeaters come out of service, but have
not seen any UHF MSR's at all around here. Overall in looking for some
myself, I have seen more UHF MSF5000 series repeaters surplus than UHF
MSR2000 repeaters.

Good luck with your project. Don't give up, there has to be some of these
radios out there somewhere. If you come across a gross of them somewhere I
am looking for a couple myself.

Joe - WA7JAW

--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
<mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> , Eric Grabowski
<ejgrabow...@...> wrote:
>
> It's hard to believe that all of these are already in the landfill, but
maybe that is indeed the case. Bummer! It looked like these would have made
a fun project. Oh well.
> 



 

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