Minitor 5 production

MikeL123 · Post by **MikeL123** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 6:50 pm

Does anyone know when the minitor 5 will be available for sale?

thgiz · Post by **thgiz** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 6:22 am

I called my dealer and was told mid summer. He stated will be the same as a IV but capable of doing 12.5 or 25 bandwidth

nmfire10 · Post by **nmfire10** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:12 am

Ah just as I suspected.

Minitor V is the same as a minitor IV which is the same as a minitor III which is a piece of crap.

Post by **firemed9** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 1:45 pm

according to a tech I talked to the other day, it will be more sensitive, and designed in the old MII case, and use MII accessories and batteries.

nmfire10 · Post by **nmfire10** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:43 pm

You've got to be kidding me. They really need to make up their minds.

1. The minitor II is a perfectly good pager. Obviously we need to can that product line.

2. Build the Minitor III and ensure it is as big a POS as possible.

3. Redesign and replace all the Mintitor III's to fix some of their many problems. Still a POS.

4. Everyone hates the Minitor III. Lets make a new model and claim it is better. We'll take a Minitor III with a new mode knob and call it the Minitor IV. Of course, it is still a POS.

5. Since we didn't make the Minitor IV capable of 12.5Khz, we'll need to make yet another new pager. Now we'll take the Minitor IV, make it do 12.5Khz and put it in a Minitor II housing. People will look at it and think "Minitor II" and buy it! Yay.

RADIOMAN2002 · Post by **RADIOMAN2002** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:07 pm

Don't buy pagers buy portables, our department did it and will never buy a Motorola pager again.

hooknladder · Post by **hooknladder** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 7:59 pm

The only good part about the Minitor 3/4 is the rechargable AAA batteries. Why would they want to change that? Last I looked at original /\/\ batteries they were upwards of $10 each. Highway Robbery!!

nmfire10 · Post by **nmfire10** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:33 pm

hooknladder wrote:The only good part about the Minitor 3/4 is the rechargable AAA batteries. Why would they want to change that?

You answered your own question.

Last I looked at original /\/\ batteries they were upwards of $10 each. Highway Robbery!!

And I also believe a small portable is much better than a pager anyway. We are transitioning to UHF at the moment and that is part of my master plan. Screw pagers, mini portables all the way.