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The article says the backbone is good it's the units in the field they want to replace so I guess they're going to stay UHF not 800 and go XTS....

Hmmm maybe we'll see a bunch of LAPD Astro Sabers on eBay soon. I imagine they'll all be auctioned off in a police auction if they in fact upgrade.. Maybe "then" it will be safe to walk around LA with a Saber on your belt.

Full story at the below URL

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3556151

Jennifer

I doubt it... Knowing those Motorola bastards the new contract will have a stipulation that all the old Astro Sabers be destroyed so they wont flood the market.

jjbond wrote:The article says the backbone is good it's the units in the field they want to replace so I guess they're going to stay UHF not 800 and go XTS....

Hmmm maybe we'll see a bunch of LAPD Astro Sabers on eBay soon. I imagine they'll all be auctioned off in a police auction if they in fact upgrade.. Maybe "then" it will be safe to walk around LA with a Saber on your belt.

Full story at the below URL

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_3556151

Jennifer

Hey Jennifer how are you? KA7BTV here........

Dan's probably right about those Sabers...........

It would be a huge waste BUT they're probably 482-512 split anyway, nothing to get worked up about. Didn't they just get their Astros in the last few years ?

Hi split Astro's are 450-512, BTW LAPD has 450 channels.

They got most of their Astro Sabers in 1994-5. They're getting tired, that's for sure.

There will be a load of Astros on eScam with holes drilled in them.

doubt it, motorola will take care of the destruction..

now will a few leak out? sure.. but the great majority will be crushed.

Well I was just about to purchase two LAPD Astro housings that I found... just to keep for the hell of it but the novelty may be gone soon... sigh...

Wait..why would holes be drilled in them?

There was a guy on eBay a while back selling HT1000's, Visars (DN revisions, too) and MT1000's with a big hole drilled in the middle.

That and Motorola tends to destroy radios from agencies as big as that when they retire their radios, so they're not wandering the street and don't get to the wrong hands, obviously.

Maybe they can jump on the SSE5000 bandwagon ala NYC.

Here's why. Because some agencies like to demil their old radios by
actually drilling a one-half or three-quarter inch hole right smack through
the middle of the radio. Makes the radio look like Marlon Brando when he
was shot in that movie years ago -- I forget the movie's name -- but the
name of the part Brando played was Bad Bob.

A thoroughly barbaric practice, but one still practiced by those to whom
a radio is just a commodity used to make money and nothing more.

So that means they're dead...I thought it was just a hole through the casing

No, the hole that Tom's talking about goes all the way thru.