Brand X
think Motorola should get into the scanner business
Interesting comment pepsima1.
I worked with Motorola during the time they still used crystals. Got out of land mobile and went into radio TV broadcast. Now retired. We called them "Brand X" because it was what everyone else compared theirs to. A Schamberg made Motorola was hard to beat. I only have one left. It was their first use of transistors.
Cost of their radios has actually gone down if you include the value of the dollar.
Police scanners aren't made like regular land mobile equipment. They are more like Ham gear. But I would not want to take a GRE scanner into a working fire either. The Motorola salesman would sell HT220's by taking his demo unit, removing the antenna, then throw it against the wall as hard as he could. He would pick it up, put the antenna back on and talk on it. Railroad workers would put them under freight car wheels to keep them from rolling. This stuff got really ugly looking. Still worked. Tower crane operators whould never use headsets, They would just hold the radio in one hand. If there was a problem, the radio got hurled in the back of the cab so he had both hands free.
The older radios never scanned, unless you spun the channel switch. Will the new trunking equipment allow some form of scanning?
Dave...