Astro Tag Question

FiremanSparky · Post by **FiremanSparky** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:43 am

I thought I saw this discussed somewhere, but can't find it. Does the Astro series of portables use green printing on black background info (FCC, Serial#, Model #, etc) tags, or a combo of green printing on black and black printing on white tags?

Post by **alex** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 6:04 am

The answer to your question is that they use a variety of lables to mark the radios. If the radio has been depot'ed, expect different lables than what you see most of the older ones, with green/black.

There was another topic that was pulled from here recently regarding this, while it's not bad to discuss lables, I'd like to keep discussion about how to make them yourselves off the board.

-Alex

Radiogeek97 · Post by **Radiogeek97** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:35 am

My ASIII came back from rockford with white labels on it after they recased it ect.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:20 am

Purchased a new XTS3000 about 6 weeks ago, and it also had those white/black tags on it.

Jay

FiremanSparky · Post by **FiremanSparky** » Tue Jul 20, 2004 10:01 pm

Thanks everyone. The reason I asked is because when the first agency I was with switched from low band to digital trunked 800MHz, the radio's we
ordered (XTS-3000 Model I & II's) had the green on black tags, and radio's I see for sale/trade in various places (Astro 3000/3500/5000) have either green on black or black on white tags (I've seen several that had both). I wanted to know if the type of tag a particular radio has is a give-away (in addition to r0f's Astro Guide) to tell a legit radio from a fraud/parts/hack, especially since I plan on purchasing my own (XTS-5000, if a "real" one comes along) in the near future. Again, thanks!

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Salem The Cat · Post by **Salem The Cat** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:30 pm

alex wrote:The answer to your question is that they use a variety of lables to mark the radios. If the radio has been depot'ed, expect different lables than what you see most of the older ones, with green/black.

There was another topic that was pulled from here recently regarding this, while it's not bad to discuss lables, I'd like to keep discussion about how to make them yourselves off the board.

-Alex

Yes, knowledge of how to make labels at home is MUCH more
dangerous than discussing how to program up radios on public
safety trunking systems behind the administrators back.

Making counterfeit labels is bad, putting unauthorized radios on
local PD trunking system to "monitor", is good.