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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