FYI
Motorola responds to attacks against the United States
The thoughts of the people of Motorola around the world are with the families of the innocent victims of the violence against the United States on September 11, 2001. All of us continue to be deeply affected by these tragic events. Nevertheless, it is critical that we help each other get through this tragedy and help the world recover.
Motorola is continuing extensive efforts to globally expedite new shipments and meet numerous customer requests for emergency help to support police, fire, ambulance and other emergency services in the affected areas.
Motorola business and logistic teams and manufacturing facilities worldwide will remain on full alert and will continue to give priority to public safety emergency orders as needed.
To date, Motorola has delivered at least 86 trucks with communications equipment to field teams and customers in the New York City area, Virginia and Maryland. In addition, seven planes carried Motorola equipment into the affected areas at the height of these disasters.
Additionally, three major communications systems were delivered, including a 900 MHz “trailer” radio system and an 800 MHz “trailer” radio system in New York City, and an 800 MHz “trailer” system which is being used at the plane crash site in Pennsylvania. A fourth major system, an 800 MHz, 15-channel communications system, was delivered to New York to provide back-up communications for emergency services. Motorola workers produced the system, which typically takes about three weeks to assemble, in 30 hours for shipment to the emergency areas.
Approximately 9,500 of our portable radios, 16,000 batteries and 3,000 chargers have been delivered so far. Further, about 120 base stations, and nearly 5,000 pieces of miscellaneous accessories, such as cabling and antenna equipment, have been delivered. Motorola has also delivered 700 Iridium satellite telephones to emergency agencies in the New York City area. We also provided 1,000 cellular phones to a major insurance company for its policyholders in the affected areas.
Motorola has also donated 10,000 iDEN multi-function phones to various federal, state and local government agencies, plus about 88,000 batteries, chargers and other accessories. Nextel will provide the phone service.
The Motorola Foundation will donate $1 million in support of relief efforts, dispersed to: New York Police, Fire & Rescue; the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund (World Trade Center / Pentagon Fund); General Relief Fund in New York; Abilities, Inc.; and Employee Match to the One Motorola Responds Fund.
We all have the opportunity to redefine what it means to be heroic. We must focus our energies on collaboration and reconstruction. We need heroes and heroines of epic proportion working to strengthen the world one step at a time.
Christopher B. Galvin
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Motorola, Inc.
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Salem The Cat
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Further to that the NEW SOUTH WALES State Government(Australia)has donated 6000 Motorola XTS3000's to help with communications. These radios are all UHF low band APCO 25 trunking with SAMSUNG stickers replacing the Motorola stickers, why you ask ? These radios were used for the Olympic Radio network during the Sydney 2000 Olympics
SAMSUNG were appointed as the offical provider of communications to the olympics and as they do not make suitable two way radios Motorola XTS3000's were used and badged as SAMSUNG.
SAMSUNG were appointed as the offical provider of communications to the olympics and as they do not make suitable two way radios Motorola XTS3000's were used and badged as SAMSUNG.
The only caveat with the those Australian Olympic XT3000's is that they require a unique version of the RSS. Telstra (sort of Australia's AT&T) was the communications vendor at the Olympics. Prior to the festivities, they had some sort of security breach with other radios and software. This resulted in Telstra requesting radios with unique EEPROMS and the modified software. Trying to read a “Samsung” XT3000 results in a "codeplug too new for this application." message. More bit-bashing anyone?
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Dale Earnhardt
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Motorola has always had a public spirit, I, however, found that working for moto' was no more fun when MC&E broke up, I wound up at pan american cellular, got really bored, programming was the same thing, over and over, this is why nokia and ericsson/GE beat moto' at cellular, we wanted to build something new, something digital, but was not to be, so, well, history.
Thank You.
Thank You.
Well, when I was in NYC the other week, All the ambulances were using XTS3500R's, while most of the officers had Astro Saber 3's. The trailer by Chelsea Pier had a milk crate full of XTS 3500R's, and there were a box or two of Astro Saber 3's. I think all were UHF. I didn't get to play much with the XTS, it didn't have scan, but the audio quality from it was quite good. Only thing I noticed was that sometimes depending on where you were one portable would hear something on the same channel, and the one sitting next to it wouldn't. I don't know if that's just the effect from NYC or not...
However, I like the XTS... kinda a neat looking radio. However, my wallet can't take dishing out $2-4K on a 3500.... The radios that we were using were ID'ed as NYFD portables, so I don't think these were "borrowed" radios from //.
However, I like the XTS... kinda a neat looking radio. However, my wallet can't take dishing out $2-4K on a 3500.... The radios that we were using were ID'ed as NYFD portables, so I don't think these were "borrowed" radios from //.