I have a question. Our county wants to go to a digital radio system, it said at the county meeting that not only will the public be helping with the radio system funding but also the government he said "In choosing to stay with Motorola products we will have the option to get a discounted rate on our new digital radios by sending our old analog products back to Motorola for recycling into new digital radios. Is this true? How do they turn an old radio into a new one?
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Run the old ones under a 'dozer and have you sign on the dotted line...
Difficult to tell with the sparse info provided but Motorola was offering a higher tier radio for very minimal price with rebanding of 800 trunked systems. The better radios that the town I used to work for upgraded to were digital radios. The radios are not "rebuilt" but are swapped during the rebanding.
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SteveC0625
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Sounds like salesman talk to me. They want the end users to feel like they're doing the "green" thing by recycling the radios.
No one anywhere in the industry is reworking old radios, at least for the US market.
No one anywhere in the industry is reworking old radios, at least for the US market.
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Rebanding was handled by the Transition Administrator, and funds to defray the cost of many of those swaps were paid for by Sprint-Nextel as part of the Consensus Plan as approved by the FCC several years ago to alleviate Nextel interference to 800MHz public safety users.
The deadline to get replacements under this program closed long ago and rebanding is finally almost finished.
Motorola offers a trade in, but it all depends on who is doing the selling and how bad they want to make the sale.
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