xtl 5000

nypd · Post by **nypd** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:58 am

some guy emailed me saying he has a motorola xtl 5000? he wants $1,100 new in the box... but he said it only goes up to 470? any way to make it go to 490? i never heard of this radio and is it a good price?

Post by Pj » Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:20 am

The XTL5000 is going to be the replacement for the Astro Spectra. I know the 700/800 dual band radio is out, I do not know if the UHF and VHF versions have been released yet.

As the radio's are so new, I don't think anyone has been able to play with the freq band settings yet.

The radio line does exist, but I can't tell you if he actually has one.

nypd · Post by **nypd** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 10:26 am

yeah...i went to motorola.com and saw it existed..but i didnt trust this guy.. if it was realeased or anything... im not too familiar with mobile radio's...........

mancow · Post by **mancow** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:33 am

It's likely a scam. I had a guy try to sell me a nice spectrum analyzer for $400. He sent a nice email that had all kinds of links to an escrow site. From what I could determine it was one of the fake escrow services that take your money and run. It also looked like the guy had hijacked a good ebay account and was using it commit fraud.

Stay away from t the XTL! It's too good to be true.

mancow

Cam · Post by **Cam** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:40 am

Yep, those should be selling for what, like 5 to 10 times that?

Cam

CTAMontrose · Post by **CTAMontrose** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:38 pm

Me thinks its a little too soon for used XTLs to start showing up on the market...

KG6EAQ · Post by **KG6EAQ** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 3:03 pm

That's the post I was looking for r0f! I couldn't remember which forum it ended up in though.

nypd · Post by **nypd** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 7:55 pm

guy emailed me back...and said it was sold already...

mancow · Post by **mancow** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:01 pm

Must have been surfing the forum...

mancow

nypd · Post by **nypd** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:12 pm

does the xtl have a siren ? b/c this had a siren too he said

Post by Pj » Wed Dec 10, 2003 8:49 pm

I am sure that you can get the siren amp for it, which would then interface with the radio.

It would look like the box under the control head:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... tegory=296