Astro Saber Antennas

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Astro Saber Antennas

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Does anyone know what are the color codes of the antennas used on the Astro Sabers... if someone can provide a list of what each color code means, it would be awesome, thanks!
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Re: Astro Saber Antennas

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You need both the base colour and length to properly identify Motorola antennas.

Astro / XTS / and others using the Jedi SMA type

137-174 MHz wide band 203 mm red
136-151 MHz heliflex 195 mm yellow
151-162 MHz heliflex 183 mm black
162-174 MHz heliflex 172 mm blue

380-435 MHz stubby heliflex 88 mm red (early 86 mm units 403-433 MHz)
435-470 MHz stubby heliflex 81 mm green
470-512 MHz stubby heliflex 79 mm black

380-400 MHz wide band 150 mm yellow
403-512 MHz wide band 130 mm light grey

700/800 dual band flexible whip 178 mm green

806-870 MHz stubby 1/4 wave 80 mm white (said to work down to the 700 MHz band)
806-941 MHz flexible 1/4 wave 80 mm red
806-870 MHz flexible whip 175 mm red
806-870 MHz elevated feed dipole 200 mm red

896-941 MHz flexible whip 160 mm blue
896-941 MHz elevated feed dipole 200 mm blue


XTS 4000

136-151 MHz 48 mm
145-166 MHz 43 mm blue
162-174 MHz 38 mm


SABER / MX (paint on end of thread)

136-151MHz 165 mm yellow
151-162MHz black
162-174MHz 152 mm blue
403-435MHz red
435-470MHz green
470-512MHz black


Note that I have updated this list here but will now post updates here:

https://www.p25.ca/threads/2307-Motorol ... #post16366

Current Motorola antenna web page (has errors and lists only current models) but useful for part numbers:

http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/ ... o+Antennas

Antenna images:

http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?t=46848
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