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Sorry, I did a search and must have missed it. Whats the meaning behind the various colors of the factory label on a spectra?

Different factories. The white one may be a Depot tag.

Also the serial number tells where and when the radio was made.

Thanks for the reply!

Black labels are later model. 123ABC4567.. the BC tells when the radio was made

http://www.batlabs.com/mfgtabl.html

Thanks, over the years I had seen people say its a black label or white label as if to designate something. I had never seen what that something was!

Well, just to confuse things a bit, generally a black label is newer than a white label, but if a radio goes to the depot, it comes back with a white label. However it does look different from the original white label. Just go to Ebay & look at the different types of stickers on Spectras for sale. The depot ones seem to be whiter than the original ones. GARY N4KVE