Motorola Manufacturing information

[yardbird]

Hello All!

I need some help here.

I am working on a grant to hopefully get some of our mobiles and portables replaced.

In the grant process they are requesting a month and year of manufacture for all radios being replaced.

I have a chart that breaks down the MTS-2000 information.

I need a chart that will help me to determine the information for the following radios:

LTS-2000
XTS-2500
XTS-5000
XTL-2500
XTL-5000

Any help would greatly be appeciated

Thanks

David

 

[fineshot1]

For motorola the 5th and 6th characters in the serial numbers determine the date of manufacture.

I hope the chart below comes out on this cut/past - see below:

5th Year 6th Month
A 1976/2000 A-B January
B 1977/2001 C-D February
C 1978/2002 E-F March
D 1979/2003 G-H April
E 1980/2004 J-K May
F 1981/2005 L-M June
G 1982/2006 N-P July
H 1983/2007 Q-R August
J 1984/2008 S-T September
K 1985/2009 U-V October
L 1986/2010 W-X November
M 1987/2011 Y-Z December
N 1988/2012
P 1989/2013
Q 1990/2014
R 1991/2015
S 1992/2016
T 1993/2017
U 1994/2018
V 1995/2019
W 1996/2020
X 1997/2021
Y 1998/2022
Z 1999/2023

 

[CommJunkie]

I'm glad you posted this, I've always been wondering myself. Is this good for mobiles and portables?

 

[fineshot1]

I'm glad you posted this, I've always been wondering myself. Is this good for mobiles and portables?

As far as I know all of the moto radio line have the same serial number format - see the batlabs chart
below for a little more detail.

Determining Manufacture Date By Serial Number

 

[KG4INW]

Along the same lines if anyone wants to determine Motorola battery (and from experience, many other accessories as well) date codes you can see here: Translating Motorola Battery Date Codes