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I recently worked with a federal agency and saw a radio I had never
seen before. The radio is a Motorola Astro lunchbox type unit approximately 2 feet high and looked a little like a spectra display.
Anybody have an idea on this unit or the model #.

Just a quick addition It was not the portable repeater we have all seen
with spectra built in.

It is a ASTRO-X radio, it contains a ASIII inside.

The 2 agencies that use them the most are the Sercret Service and White House Communications Agency.

The is a new one coming out with an SSE5000 inside.

What's it for? Like....is basically a transportable spectra kinda deal, like the PT400 series was?

-Mike

rOf, there is a railroad astro spectra, I saw a PDF brochure on it somewhere, i think it is on motorolas website, although I have not seen one in RR service yet.

I posted a link awhile ago. Does/looks everything like the analog spectra, except it will do the AAR narrowband channels in the 100 series, and digital operation is via a push button. If you want digital, press the A/D button and boom, your IMBE on that same channel.

As with the rest of the astro's, its Flashport.

You are looking for this:
http://www.motorola.com/cgiss/railsolut ... band.shtml and
http://www.motorola.com/cgiss/docs/rail ... ochure.pdf

This was not a rr spectra . As uspss said it must be an astro-x .
Anybody have more info or picture and is this unit available to the
public ?

I have a drawing with one somewhere. Lemme see if I can extract it from the pdf.