MTS2000 Worth Nothing Now?

Terry_Glover · Post by **Terry_Glover** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:04 pm

The market must be flodded with MT2000 And MTS2000's now.

No one wants to pay a dime for them.

Sad. Among the best radios ever built...

Terry

Post by **wavetar** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:07 pm

Yep, many agencies have switched to Astro gear by now, or perhaps even went with another vendor (gasp!). Here in our city, the old Police MTS2000 & MCS2000 radios were handed down to the Works department when the police went digital. I'm sure many other places simply put them up for auction or similar.

Todd

N4KVE · Post by **N4KVE** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:50 pm

In the past year I have picked up 6 UHF MTS 2000's on EBAY. They all came from Gilco. They were B4's. Price varied from $62 to $100. That one was mint. They all worked perfectly. 2 were actually MTX 838's which are 99 ch, top display,continuous rotary. Yeah prices are down, yet some people are still living in the past trying to get $359 for the same radio. LOL. GARY N4KVE

Terry_Glover · Post by **Terry_Glover** » Wed May 02, 2007 3:56 pm

Yes. These radios are being surplused out so quickly in the past six months or so.

Values of them are nearly half now!

Terry

DPL · Post by **DPL** » Wed May 02, 2007 4:26 pm

What I can't believe is that HT1000s seem to be fetching at least as much as model I MTS2000s. I got an MTS2000 on UHF for $100. Good battery and charger. Hard to find an HT1000 for that price, and I bet it would be an old "B" model, too. Only downside is that the MTS doesn't have MDC1200. But, as a ham, the only purpose that would serve would be to annoy other repeater users

Post by **Mfire39** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:39 pm

DPL... MTS2000's will do MDC1200 if flashed for it..

-Marc

MTS2000des · Post by **MTS2000des** » Wed May 02, 2007 7:42 pm

there is a guy on Ebay who has model I UHF's for 100 BIN they are all 6.82 f/w very clean, mine even came with a good NTN7144. MTS2000's are in such supply right now you can't give them away. I am gonna hold onto mine, not worth selling and besides they are superb radios. Even Astro Sabers and XTS3000's are coming way down in price.

One good thing about this is maybe more hams will go digital the way 900 is taking off in popularity because it's so affordable. Icom wants almost 700 bucks for a basic dual band D-Star radio, let's not even get into the outlandish cost of the repeaters, controller and related infrastructure.

Would be much cheaper to get some P25 IMBE stuff than D-Star, and with cop radios...it's COPTASTIC!

2wayfreq · Post by **2wayfreq** » Fri May 04, 2007 4:54 pm

What they should have done was come out with a UHF LTR version of the
MT/MTS. I would have used those in a second for our casino security over HT-1250s.