A little help and hello

[ikkyu142]

Hi, I just joined the forum to search for help on some radios? scanners? I bought at a school sale. Three are motorola Max Trac, unsure of what type, and one is a Motorola GTX. All I have are the main unit. No mics, no power hook ups no antennas. I'm not sure of what kind of FCC rules they fall under and what I would need to get them running.

Basically, I'm new, I don't know much, and I'm in pflugerville. I would greatly appreciate any local help I can get. I did search but the forum results were in enough ancient Egyptian algebra to my newbie eyes that I don't now if anything relevant popped up.

Please Help.

 

[fwradio]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but they may be doorstops. If the Maxtrac and GTX radios were working together, which I would assume since you bought them together, then they were probably on a 800 or 900 MHz trunking system. Almost all of the commercial systems are off the air now thanks to Nextel. The radios go for next to nothing since there is very few systems that they can work on here in the US.

There may be a system that you can still put them on in certain places in Austin, but it requires a monthly per radio airtime subscription. Most Maxtrac radios in use were the 1 or 2 system models that did not allow conventional, so you can't use them to talk directly to each other. If they were the multi-system models that allow conventional talkaround, you still have the issue of not being able to get a license to operate them legally.

 

[ikkyu142]

no sweat, mainly bought them to have a project. I picked them up for ten bucks so no loss. does anyone have manuals or information on them? I'm mainly just tinkering to learn.