What to do with all this rebanded 800mhz stuff??

wiscomm · Post by **wiscomm** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 7:33 am

Greetings Board,

I am being flooded lately with requests for us to buy older 800mhz radios (Spectras, MTS2000, Centracom II) that is obviously not capable of handing the rebanding.

Does anyone know if there is a market for this stuff? South America? Carribean? Canada?

Any suggestions?

Craig
MKE

Post by **/\/\y 2 cents** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:15 am

Yeah sell it to crazed Moto nuts like us.

RKG · Post by **RKG** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:19 pm

If I were you, I'd sit tight. Despite all that is being bandied about, there is good reason to believe that, for any SmartNet system that uses control channels in the 853-861 range, the legacy stuff will continue to work just fine.

kb4mdz · Post by **kb4mdz** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:18 pm

Uhhhh, how is Centracom II not compatible with rebanding??
I mean, maybe some of the signalling features of driving trunked systems, or such, but as a basic console?? (tho' I'll grant you, BIM's are becoming unobtainium/unrepairium....)

am being flooded lately with requests for us to buy older 800mhz radios (Spectras, MTS2000, Centracom II) that is obviously not capable of handing the rebanding.

RKG · Post by **RKG** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:32 pm

If your console links to a mobile radio that then accesses the trunked system, and if the system meets the criteria I set forth previously, then rebanding should have no effect. If your console accesses the trunked system directly through a site, zone or system controller, than I can't tell you what is going to happen.

kb4mdz · Post by **kb4mdz** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:36 pm

Well, I guess that's really the point; if you access thru a control station, shouldn't be any difference before and after any reprogramming for rebanding. Me wonders about 'pushing' a new console sale just because the "outboard" end of the console system changes?

wiscomm · Post by **wiscomm** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 6:44 pm

I am doing a site survey in the morning, I will advise what is up with the Centracom II panel.

It just seems like the municipalities are just dumping this stuff as fast they can, not sure if the DHS faucet got turned on or if the Motorola Sales department just turned up the volume on the rebanding retoric.

Will advise,

Craig
MKE

wiscomm · Post by **wiscomm** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 11:30 am

Anyone have any background on this:

Centracom Series II
Model B1636A
OP 1CCP1
OPNG 1 BAY 08

Any value?

Craig
MKE

Post by **xmo** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 2:23 pm

There are two situations with regard to CCII. First, the original 6809 button & LED systems were introduced over 20 years ago. Motorola has discontinued support for some of that equipment which makes its value drop for public safety applications.

Second, many of these systems have been upgraded to Gold Elite CRT. The upgrade involves replacing the operator position(s) and some or all of the CEB boards. Card cages and CEB power supplies are often re-used. This has put a flood of button ops and old CEB boards into the used market.

The used stuff can be a good way to get spares to keep an older system going. It can also offer a way to put together a premium dispatch system for non public safety applications, for example, how about a full blown Motorola console for your amateur radio ops at the local EOC or even in a comm van.

The B1636A is a tunking console "Compact" button LED op position. There was one listed on ebay for $99.99 [7561067856]. That listing got no takers - so that sort of tells you what its worth today. It might be worth something more than that IF it has DCCM modules.