I'm trying to gather up information for a proposal to phase out our Minitor II's. I can't keep up with the repairs. Does anyone here know when the Minitor II was initially sold to the public and when it was last sold? Also, when the Minitor II reached End-of-life with Motorola?
There are only about 10-12 of our FF's that use them as their primary alert units. We have an army of Swissphone RE629's and 729's that work great and a handful of Minitor V's that also work well. We'll probably buy on the FF's preference between those two models.
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History of the Minitor II --- Does anyone know dates?
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Re: History of the Minitor II --- Does anyone know dates?
I just check our service history and here is what I found.
Minitor II from 1989 to 1998
Minitor III from 1998 to mid 2002
Minitor IV from ??? to mid 2005 (I assume they came out in 2002)
Minitor 5 from mid 2005 to present
Emd of life for pagers is typically 3-years after date of last production.
Minitor II from 1989 to 1998
Minitor III from 1998 to mid 2002
Minitor IV from ??? to mid 2005 (I assume they came out in 2002)
Minitor 5 from mid 2005 to present
Emd of life for pagers is typically 3-years after date of last production.
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Re: History of the Minitor II --- Does anyone know dates?
Sounds good -- thank you very much
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Re: History of the Minitor II --- Does anyone know dates?
Good information from RFguy...thank you!
A little modification to the Minitor II dates.
The first Minitor II's were manufactured in 1986...
The last Minitor II's were manufactured in the first quarter of 2000.
Those were Low Band and UHF. The VHF High Band Minitor II's were
discontinued prior to Low Band and UHF.
We have a couple of customers that still have some of their original 1986
Minitor II's in service (646BLUnnnn).
They are still more reliable than their Minitor V's.
chipjumper: If keeping up with the repairs on Minitor II's are a problem, wait until you
get a bunch of Minitor V's that are 3 or 4 years old... you will want the II's back.
Bob
A little modification to the Minitor II dates.
The first Minitor II's were manufactured in 1986...
The last Minitor II's were manufactured in the first quarter of 2000.
Those were Low Band and UHF. The VHF High Band Minitor II's were
discontinued prior to Low Band and UHF.
We have a couple of customers that still have some of their original 1986
Minitor II's in service (646BLUnnnn).
They are still more reliable than their Minitor V's.
chipjumper: If keeping up with the repairs on Minitor II's are a problem, wait until you
get a bunch of Minitor V's that are 3 or 4 years old... you will want the II's back.
Bob
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Re: History of the Minitor II --- Does anyone know dates?
Lol thats why we're moving to the Swissphone product. I personally have used a Swissphone for at least four if not five years and they work great. The receive is par with the Min II's and they are very tough. In fact, my original RE529 Swissphone is still in service; now held by "the new guy" as it doesn't have the nice feature of voice storage like the newer models do.
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"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." -Patton
Re: History of the Minitor II --- Does anyone know dates?
Any idea what you pay for the Swissphones? Are they the 629 or 729? One channel or two channel? Does the price include the charger?
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Re: History of the Minitor II --- Does anyone know dates?
Synthesized receiver is on par with a crystal receiver? o_Ochipjumper wrote:Lol thats why we're moving to the Swissphone product. I personally have used a Swissphone for at least four if not five years and they work great. The receive is par with the Min II's and they are very tough. In fact, my original RE529 Swissphone is still in service; now held by "the new guy" as it doesn't have the nice feature of voice storage like the newer models do.