You can pick up programmed UHF Desktracs on ebay for ~150, programmed.  Like
Joe said, Desktracs are not high-duty cycle repeaters (not good for Ham
Radio) , as well they are not NB capable so commercial uses are about out.

I sold my two for $100 each, unprogrammed.

-Brian / KF4ZWZ

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:29 PM, burkleoj <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't know about your neck of the woods, but one of the local ham groups
> picked up a Desktrac already tuned on the ham band to their frequency for
> $125 with the service manual. It does not have enough of a transmit duty
> cycle for their semi-busy ham system so it is sitting on the shelf. First
> $100 will take it off their hands, so they are hard to sell here on the West
> Coast, even when they are cheap.
>
> Good Luck and I hope you find a buyer for your unit.
> Joe - WA7JAW
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "kc8gpd" <kc8...@...> wrote:
> >
> > Um Ok, I want this gone. Tried swapping it, and selling it so how low do
> i have to go before someone will bite.
> >
> > not that i will necessarily let it go extremely cheap, but i am just
> curious about how low i have to go to get it sold. also want to know the
> reasoning of why it is so hard to get it sold since GMRS and Ham are still
> wideband.
> >
> > i will also toss in a small cushcraft uhf ringo as well.
> >
> > again will swap to a rebandable p25 mobile scanner or $$$$???
> >
> > here are pic's
> > http://img405.imageshack.us/i/sales8910018.jpg/
> > http://img188.imageshack.us/i/sales8910017.jpg/
> > http://img842.imageshack.us/i/sales8910016.jpg/
> > http://img683.imageshack.us/i/sales8910015.jpg/
> > http://img706.imageshack.us/i/sales8910021.jpg/
> >
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