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Im buying a bunch of 800 mhz maxtracs, and I want to make sure... these can be programmed for 800 mhz simplex operation, correct? I just need some house to housestuff in the neighborhood, no turnked or repeater or any crap like that. Will these work? Also, I need some mics and power cables for them... as many as you got. let me know what you have. Thanks!

Not all trunking Maxtrac's will do conventional talkaround. Some conventional Maxtrac's won't even do talkaround (only capable of 45 MHz repeater offsets). Don't have the breakdown for you but wanted to get you a quick answer before you committed to the deal.

While on this topic anyone know if there are conventional itinerant freq's. in the 800 band ? If not, are there any 800 freq's. that are conventional business freq's.
countrywide ?

Here's a quick summary for you:
Any Maxtrac I've ever seen will Tx in the 806-851 Mhz band.
Any Maxtrac I've ever seen will Rx in the 851-870 Mhz band.
*IF* the Maxtrac has the talkaround RF board installed, it will also TX in the 851-870 Mhz band.
So the only place you might be able to operate simplex in the 851-870 portion.
As you can see, "conventional" does not mean exactly the same thing as it does on the VHF and UHF radios that M made.
I've never seen a Maxtrac that was built to receive in the 806-825 portion of the band...they all have receiver front end filtering that precludes this unless you want to get into redesigning and replacing helical filters/preamps.

You will want to make sure the maxtracs you are getting are B6 or B7 models,they will do conventional and trunking.I think they are 10 conv. modes.The B5's are trunking only

F.C.

If they are trunking and have the 2ch front,you will have to change the eprom and blank (and reinitialize) the logic board to make them conventional.