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Ok, I am liking this. And priced well too. Tired of transporting a Christie CASP1000 everywhere, which condition charges but is not a good load. I may have to get one of these now. Thank you for sharing.

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I drive 'em until they are destroyed, but am also a bit envious at that room. Nothing I own now  has room for stacked control heads, to include similar scanner and radio (BCT15 and MCS2000 model 1). I had to buy a cheap Radioditty DB20-G that fit a storage hole in the dash for my current daily driver. Having a dedicated scanner mobile is something I miss now, and handhelds just lack the tactile "form factor" that I like.

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Also have a few of these running in Texas. Good radio repeaters, but full disclosure, I also used to work at Zetron, when they were part of the JVC/Kenwood Group (along with Viking/EFJohnson), engineering comm solutions and 911PSAP equipment. So,in that role, everything was Kenwood/Zetron/EFJ....etc.

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Still run some of these myself for shore support of a fleet of oil spill response vessels spread across the country. Although, some newer sites now use SLR5700's now. XPR8300/8400's replaced aging Vertex VX-7000's.

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Motorola XPR5550e Trbo series mobile radio base station for commercial UHF and GMRS use at a corporate Emergency Operations Center. This allows for both analog and digital Time Domain Multiple Access (TDMA) communications. This combination cost about $1000.00 to put together using new: power supply, radio, desk mic, magnet mount, and Laird whisker style antenna. To program however, it also requires Motorola CPS software, so you would have to spend a few hundred more for that, and have a Motorola Solutions Inc. account.

 

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Similar type of setup here as well:

I used a Vertex VX-3200 UHF for GMRS for many years in my previous car, with a VHF one mounted right on top, fit my old Pontiac Grand Prix perfectly (was a police package car) bought for business use. They fit where the cubby hole would have been in the dash. However, with a new car, I ended up getting a Radioddity DB20-G for mobile use. Having VHF and UHF in the same radio is great.

Portables varies between Anytone 878's, some HT1250's, and an XPR6550. Somewhere there is a GM-30 and HT750's. Motorola radios make for some great GMRS units.....that may be the end game for many that become surplus at work. Maybe even get a few more people using them and joining this site at some point too. Thank you for the response.

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Motorola CDM1550-LS+, surplus from commercial market use and re-tooled for GMRS. The Astron power supply is a little bit "overkill" but I often add a second radio to these Astron power supplies. Usually there will be a VHF radio stacked underneath a UHF version used as a base-station in my world.

This came from the practice of stacking radios in the military, having the lower radio being lower frequency. VHF-Lo, then VHF Commercial/Military, and (Motorola) UHF band 1, then UHF band 2, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, etc.