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There are some holes in the collection, especially with mobiles. I am the traditional radio hoarder, and have mobile data terminals, and lots of gear around, but most of it doing something. I would say about 85-90% Motorola thanks to the oil industry and planning for hardware replacement. Then Kenwood/EF Johnson/Zetron.....working for them helped that a bit, corporate "yard sales" where day three everything went for free as ""e-waste" costs the company money. My Zetron ALI display shows the entire caller ID data, as the entire data stream is sent, but consumer grade equipment only shows name and number, two lines.

I use Zetron 3010 ALI displays that were part of the 3200 series telephone "Call Taking" systems. They provide a line for "name" and another for "phone number" but also show landline address, or wireless cell phone tower lat/long, then if they get the second "rebid" from an ALI database, the lat/long of the cell phone GPS. They will also show which first response elements are responsible for the callers location: police, fire, ems (emergency medical services), and usually a line or two of notes. Cellular calls will have the carrier name: Verizon, ATT WRLS (American Telephone &Telegraph Wireless), etc. However, they are not stand alone in that respect......you need access to an ALI database or something for the 3010 to query from to display information. I have several and an older copy of a local database, but have also connected one to an alarm system and another just to a keyboard for messages (the one shown). Zetron had numbered product lines: 1000 was SCADA, 2000 Paging Systems (yes, they are still in use many places), 3000 Call Taking, 4000 (Radio) Dispatch, 5000 DFSI dispatch, numbered box products, and then MAX series, and highest end Acom Novus. For the first 30 years, most of this was connected to Motorola radios, until they were bought by the JVC/Kenwood Group, then sold last year to Codan of Australia. I would consider the 3000/4000 series to be the best gear for a 9-1-1 Public Safety Answering Point, unless they can afford Acom Novus ($1 million plus cost). Zetron's hayday matched that of Motorola in my opinion, 1980-1990's. But, you do need more than the device to get expanded Caller ID....a connection to an ALI database, Internet access, old electronic phone book.....I have seen some creative uses.

I am just going by the brochure specs. The lithium disposable battery is rated at 12 hours according to the brochure... I've updated the name, will upload shortly. G.

What model ALI? What else might one see in the data? I get a lot of robocalls and it would be interesting to see what they cannot spoof.

On another note, I am quite pleased with the install in the Discovery 2. Mounted the face to an otherwise useless area on the dash and put the main radio under the drivers seat.

No kidding. Except for a nice mobile I got for free everything else I had to pay for. 8-(

A normal Motorola dealer isn't going to touch a piece of equipment that's @ 20 years past production & requires DOS programming. Especially if they didn't sell it. As I recall - the i20 was really made by Instrument Associates (which later sold to Gaitronics?) for Motorola. I think you can access the programming through the GM300 software that you would normally use for programming your GR300 series desktop repeater. There's probably some info over on Repeater-Builder or Batlabs that might help you. The i20r was sold as an "on-site repeater controller" that did a limited amount of PL/DPL code sets (8 or 10?) and was able to control a simple GM300 or R1225 repeater. Not sure what repeater you're planning to use it with. I seem to recall liking the i20r when it first came out, because you didn't have to mess around with programming it via a maze of DTMF codes (like the Zetron controllers). Was much easier to work with on the bench for initial setup, but a pain if you had to drive out to a site in order to turn a user code on or off. I forget if the i20r allowed just one CWID, or had multiple call signs based on the PL/DPL code in use. Something tells me it was just one CWID.

The earlier Systems Sabers and analog Sabers are modular so you can change band splits by swapping a few modules and retuning. I have done this with several surplus govt split IRS radios. The Astro Saber is a bit too tall for my taste. I have a couple of those but prefer the Systems Sabers. I wish Motorola had continued with the Saber form factor. The later Astro XTS and APX radios are sort of bizarre and bulbous in styling. Sent from my SM-T350 using Tapatalk

I see amateur radio as something for nearly everyone. There are people bouncing signals off the moon, building equipment, fox hunting, rag chewing, and just about anything a person could want. It started as a hobby for people fascinated by a new technology. It continues to reflect new technology. ARRL simply reflects that.

So one 8 year old article and one 20 year old article....yup...garbage... Again my Opinion. But I guess we aren't allowed to differ than other online. There are alot of publications by the ARRL and many other organizations in the radio field. Each has a following and each is what the end user wants to read. If Amateur radio was respected in the areas I live more then it may be different but its a hobby to them. None are involved in county aspects nor have any interest in that. I guess maybe QSL to should just have articles on how to program your Baofeng and HotSpot as that seems to be the fad of the day for many hams. Linking repeaters via internet, hot spots and zello from a cell phone is not what I got into ham radio for. Where is the amateur's microwave guys to help link repeaters and put voters on a system ? Ghosts. Just buy a cheap hotspot and drop it on your fusion or Trbo repeater and walk away.

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Is the duplexer already tuned for your desired frequency? Is vendor tuning the duplexer for your desired frequency? If no in both cases, then you'll have to get the duplexer tuned. I assume you know this already, but wanted to mention it since the duplexer in the repeater will likely be tuned for a different frequency than what you plan to use. I really like the VXR-7000 and have found it to be about the most cost-effective repeater solution available. For mine, I went with a flat-pack duplexer that I installed inside the unit, so it's self contained. I had to fabricate a mount for it because I didn't have the factory mount, and I don't think it would have worked with the duplexer I bought. I just made two "straps" out of 1/8" x 3/4" flat stock, and bought metric screws to attach to the factory mounting holes. I used a little foam padding for cushion and strapped the duplexer to the repeater, and arranged the cables as necessary. It is working well for me. I also bought a programming cable with the CE-27 program disk which allows me to program the VXR-7000 easily.