Astro and 900 mhz?

[ke7jvx]

Is there an astro that can be converted or that will go into the amateur 900 mhz band (902-928)?

Monty

[jmr061]

Negative, not that I know of. I know some have tried to make a 900 mhz astro spectra, no luck though.

Jason

[4n6inv]

No luck in making it do digital, or no luck whatsoever to get one to do the 255 channels? I'd really like to make a W-3 900 for ham use, but don't care squat about it doing digital.

[jmr061]

No luck in making a 900 astro period. They made no RF board for it.

Jason

[4n6inv]

And no one has been able to trick a VCO and/or RF board into locking into the lower 900 ham freqs?

[radioinstl]

XTL and XTS (ASTRO25) are now out in 900 Mhz

[jmr061]

$$$$$$$$, lol.

Jason

[4n6inv]

NFW!!! You can't be serious- yes; I'm gullible.

[radioinstl]

New Radio Features Supported:
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NOTE: FIRMWARE VERSION R10.00.00 or HIGHER IS REQUIRED FOR THE
FOLLOWING FEATURES TO WORK IN THE RADIO:


• 900 MHz band for XTL 1500 and XTL 2500 radios
• 'Menu Inactivity Time Out'
• 'Squelch Per Personality' - Per Personality Squelch Control
• 'Priority Monitor Scan' and 'Priority Scan Alert' in XTL 1500 and PM 1500
• 'Tactical Rekey' for XTL 2500 and XTL 5000 radios
• 'Disable High Pass Filter'
• 'One Touch Signaling'

[Grog]

XTL and XTS (ASTRO25) are now out in 900 Mhz

What models? Where I work has several 900mhz TRSs, and I was wondering what they could use as replacements when they need to buy more radios. The GTX is a joke for replacing a MCS2000

[escomm]

The GTX was never a replacement for the MCS2000. The MCS series was superseded by the XTL series. GTX is a Radius radio, or pretty damn close to it, since it's in the Radius price pages...

Fake edit: The GTX series is fully canceled now as well.

[Grog]

What I meant is that the last tie I looked on their website, the GTX was the only PP 900 mobile they showed. The company uses a ton of maxtracs, with some spectras and MCS2000s as bases and a few mobiles.

[escomm]

Ah, fair enough. I do concede that going to a GTX from an MCS is like going to a Yugo from a Lexus

[N9LLO]

The brochure for the XTS2500 indicates 900mhz "future avaliability" I asked my local sales guy and he didn't know anything about it. Anybody seen one yet of have a release date?

Chris

[escomm]

The brochure for the XTS2500 indicates 900mhz "future avaliability" I asked my local sales guy and he didn't know anything about it. Anybody seen one yet of have a release date?

Chris

According to the firmware notes all you need is cps and firmware version 10.

[N9LLO]

Has anyone ever seen an actual 900 mhz XTS2500 radio or know if they have even been released yet?


Chris

[4n6inv]

I realize that this is a weiner question, but I wonder if they will program and operate into the ham band.