CommandStar lite ballpark price?

[adlertom]

Can anyone advise how much a CommandStar lite dispatch console would cost? This would be for a pretty basic installation using tone control for 1 Quantar repeater, 1 MSR2000 base station, and 1 Micor base station.

Just need a ballpark price.

Thanks,

Tom

[d119]

Probably around $15k or so, depending on options and configuration.

IMHO, these things are junk and you could probably do better with a Zetron 4000 series or something else.

[Batwings21]

I can second that, you would be better off with a zetron for that price.

[adlertom]

Thanks for the advice. We want to purchase MCC7500 consoles that will work with a yet to be built countywide P25 TRS, and also work with our existing local analog systems in the meantime. Motorola is reluctant to support this configuration however, as the MCC7500 needs to connect to (and is programmed via) a TRS master site, which doesn't exist here yet and won't be on line for at least 18 months.

According to Motorola, if we did this, we would essentially be operating the MCC7500 in a "failure" mode, due to the missing master site. Also, they would have to program the MCC7500 in Schaumburg using one of their in house test Master sites, then ship it to us. We couldn't make any changes to it without reconnecting it to thier test site.

Apparantly Motorola doesn't maintain too many of these test master sites. The engineers have difficulty getting access to them (even for programming) as they're in regular use for the staging/testing of systems prior to shipment.

So, I'm exploring options. We could limp along with our current 22 year old Centracom II until the new county TRS becomes operational, or purchase a new, very basic console to hold us over.

[Batwings21]

I would stick with the cc2.

[Bill_G]

Three base stations is pretty basic. Any other functions needed besides tone control? Paging? ANI? Door control? Phone interface? Call logging? If all you need is push to talk, and let go to listen, then even a multi-line remote will work though it will feel like a step down. But, it will clean the back room out for the new system coming up down the road, and make the transition plan simpler.