[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, 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.
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.
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Looking For MSR2000 UHF RX and TX Boards
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. --- On Sun, 5/2/10, kc7stw kc7...@yahoo.com wrote: From: kc7stw kc7...@yahoo.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Looking For MSR2000 UHF RX and TX Boards To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 12:21 PM --- In Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com, Eric Grabowski ejgrabowski@ ... wrote: Looking for a receiver board and a transmitter board from a Motorola MSR2000 station. The boards must tune in the 440 to 450 MHz frequency range. Duplex TX board preferred but a simplex TX board would be okay. This is for a Ham Radio project. If you have one or both of these boards lying around gathering dust, please email me directly. Thanks for the bandwidth. 73 and aloha, Eric KH6CQ kh...@arrl.net Best of luck on the search. I was hunting for the same thing a about a month ago with no luck. Best bet is to keep a eye on ebay.
[Repeater-Builder] Re: Looking For MSR2000 UHF RX and TX Boards
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Eric Grabowski ejgrabow...@... wrote: Looking for a receiver board and a transmitter board from a Motorola MSR2000 station. The boards must tune in the 440 to 450 MHz frequency range. Duplex TX board preferred but a simplex TX board would be okay. This is for a Ham Radio project. If you have one or both of these boards lying around gathering dust, please email me directly. Thanks for the bandwidth. 73 and aloha, Eric KH6CQ kh...@... Best of luck on the search. I was hunting for the same thing a about a month ago with no luck. Best bet is to keep a eye on ebay.
