ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
Tools...software tools. Ways to hack the radio. Tools originally made for Moto engineers in the developmental lab and for certain R&D purposes. NOT legal to possess outside of Moto labs.
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Motorola MTS2000/MCS200
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There are a couple of full units in VHF & UHF listed on eBay for less than that price. Your idea of buying just the board and frankenradioing it, is not of sound mind nor fiscal prudence.
...and @ElroyJetson will not help you program your new radio.
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
No I won't. I'm done being a radio nanny/babysitter. I did that quite long enough.
I figured it out, mostly without help, now it's your turn.
That's a benefit of being totally independent. I can say no. And I LIKE saying no.
I figured it out, mostly without help, now it's your turn.
That's a benefit of being totally independent. I can say no. And I LIKE saying no.
N4KVE
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So how did the tools get out? Moto employees?
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DeoVindice
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The Martians.
FFPM571
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Many of the Engineers back in the day at M were hams. They loaned it to " friends" . Going to Hamfests in the Chicago area back in the day you knew who the Engineers were because they were toting the latest and greatest and even some things that had not been released yet on their belts...
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
Same way secrets always get out. People doing people favors. Sometimes because they want to be nice, sometimes because the price is right, sometimes because they've got a grudge against somebody.....
I wonder if APX full development depot is on the Hunter Biden laptop?
I wonder if APX full development depot is on the Hunter Biden laptop?
N4KVE
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Living near the Plantation factory, I knew the guy who built the MX that went up in the space shuttle. I also knew the guys who designed the Saber. And there was the guy, I forget his name who regularly went dumpster diving in their dumpster. Amazing what he’d find.
Kind of like how the saying goes.... "My wifes coworkers sisters boyfriends uncles bosses brothers buddy works at...."
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
The Saber was arguably the best radio ever made. Fantastic piece of engineering.
I searched for many years for the elusive MX310 to add to my collection. But they are RARE, RARE, RARE.
However I did have a pre-Scorpio MX360 SP model that had fourteen channel elements, a repeater/direct switch,
and a DTMF front. That must have been hideously expensive! I also had a rare MX300T at one point. Strictly a
curiosity, of course. 5 channel trunked systems weren't around for very long. That was probably first gen trunking,
maybe even before they named the various flavors such things as Privacy Plus and Smartnet.
For a long time I dreamed of being in a position to see what was in Motorola's dumpsters. Never got the chance.
These days I don't want to work that hard. I want my radios already working and needing nothing but programming.
I searched for many years for the elusive MX310 to add to my collection. But they are RARE, RARE, RARE.
However I did have a pre-Scorpio MX360 SP model that had fourteen channel elements, a repeater/direct switch,
and a DTMF front. That must have been hideously expensive! I also had a rare MX300T at one point. Strictly a
curiosity, of course. 5 channel trunked systems weren't around for very long. That was probably first gen trunking,
maybe even before they named the various flavors such things as Privacy Plus and Smartnet.
For a long time I dreamed of being in a position to see what was in Motorola's dumpsters. Never got the chance.
These days I don't want to work that hard. I want my radios already working and needing nothing but programming.
TOOLS that don't have handles...ones that you use a keyboard to manipulate! And that's about all we can say....
Speaking of older radios ( and since this is the topic of the MTS radio ) - I remember from way back in the day on Batlabs that a member there said that Motorola did make a prototype of a MTS / Jedi radio in a Ruggedized housing. I would love if someone had a picture of one, or actually held one / was able to test it back in the day. That’s probably one of the more elusive radios out there that ( to my knowledge at least ) - has never been photographed.
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
I'd just settle for finding an actual legit SSE5000 "in the wild", with tags and not "liberated" from the NYPD warehouse where the whole batch of 5000 normally resides. That was such a debacle. Motorola makes a special radio for them and they don't use them. What a waste. 5000 of them, no less.
FFPM571
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Supposedly many were used by Auxiliary and other special service units like ESU. Being they are way past EOL as is all the saber accessories they were supposed to be compatable with the have probably been sent to scrap after being run over with a dump truck.
ElroyJetson
Getting tired of all the stupidity.
Motorola's support policy is basically "we guarantee we support it up to this date, but after that date has passed, we may still have some items in stock you can buy." Into the 1990s you could buy HT220 parts and probably still can. I don't think they throw anything out!
I can't remember what it was, but at least once I bought M's last remaining part in inventory of a specific part number.
I can't remember what it was, but at least once I bought M's last remaining part in inventory of a specific part number.
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