It all depends on the antenna you use te too

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On May 30, 2011, at 7:49 PM, John Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> For whatever reason, I find for a scanner to hear anything on 900 MHz, it 
> has to be almost right on top of it. 800 seems a bit better for that, the 
> thf6a doesn't seem to hear anything on 900 though. Yup, the MTS and MCS2000 
> can do trunking, some of them were actually setup for it when I bought them, 
> they're about the best radios going on 900 MHz really but a good Kenwood 
> TK-481 version 2 is just as good, I've done the comparison, I love to get my 
> TK-x80/81 HT's all together and use them at public service events and what 
> not.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 7:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Motorola Software
> 
> 
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>> Well, I use my THF6A which I need to send in for repairs, and then all of 
>> my
>> scanners since 1993 have had 800/900 MHz.  You know the MTS-2000 is good 
>> for
>> trunking too.  I've heard stuff on that band, but just the usual baby
>> monitors and cordless phones, and even there they are starting to 
>> disappear.
>> Other then when linked I've never heard anything at all on 220 either, and
>> aren't we going to loose that band some day?
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 7:15 PM
>> Subject: Re: Motorola Software
>> 
>> 
>>> I have the MTS2000 mobile, one mobile and one in an EF Johnson base 
>>> station
>>> consul as my base radio, a Motorola LCS2000 mobile which is my backup for
>>> that band for either or, and I may come up with another use for that 
>>> soon,
>>> then I have 2 Motorola MTS2000 HT's for 900 MHz. I may have something 
>>> else
>>> in a box in the cellar but don't remember, I need to go through that box
>>> again. Pave paws pretty well took 440 from us around here in MA, like it
>>> did
>>> in CA, so we went to 900 MHz, especially after getting hold of a stock
>>> pile
>>> of about the best Motorola repeaters you can get so it's real popular
>>> around
>>> here and in CA, and there are pockets of activity throughout the country,
>>> like most of those bands, some areas it's popular, others it's
>>> nonexistent.
>>> One of the great things about the band is, buildings that uhf and vhf
>>> can't
>>> get out of, like on an ht, on 900 mhz you can get a signal in and out of.
>>> Where I used to live, that was something I loved with the EOC I
>>> volunteered
>>> in, everyone's struggling with their radios, and here I am on that band
>>> having a full quieting conversation with someone and no one could figure
>>> out
>>> how I was doing it. In my mother's house too, where I'll be a couple days
>>> this week while people work on it, I'd never get out well on 2 meters
>>> unless
>>> I go out on the porch or in the yard, 900 MHz, I can sit at the kitchen
>>> table while people work and I'm there alone and talk to people. Thing is,
>>> do
>>> I bring the MTS2000 or the Kenwood TK-481, but I'll decide that in the
>>> next
>>> day or so.
>>> I don't know what you listen on, but if there's any PL-259's involved, 
>>> you
>>> won't hear anything, they're 100% useless on the band. I don't find a
>>> scanner to be much good there at all, only the radios meant to be there.
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 6:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Motorola Software
>>> 
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>>>> What Motorola gear do you have?  Also, isn't there a version of JAWS 
>>>> that
>>>> will work with DOS?  It would also be interesting to know if there is 
>>>> any
>>>> RSS from Motorola available for the MAC?  I've never heard anything ham
>>>> related on our 33 CM band at all, either here in NY or back in Michigan
>>>> or
>>>> any place else I've been.
>>>> 
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