SOld about 4 DeskTracs tuned to 800 Band for about 40 bucks apiece. They were a hard sell til some Ag business down South picked up on them.
John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora Street Stockton, CA 95202 http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn ----- Original Message ----- From: FreeCycle To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 1:29 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Fs: (/\/\)otorola UHF Desktrac how about the duplexer? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Raker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Fs: (/\/\)otorola UHF Desktrac > 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/ >> > >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >
