Eric, I don't think they are landfill material yet. I think you will find that there is many of them still in service.
I know in one of the sites here locally in Southern Oregon, my Micor ham repeater is surrounded by 5 MSR2000 VHF repeaters still in commercial service. You have to remember that they were the replacement for the Micor line of radio. Most agencies and businesses in a lot of areas that had Micor repeaters did not replace them with the MSR2000 radios as Motorola had hoped. When Motorola built the Micor it was over-designed, over-built, and super reliable. Motorola sold them like hot cakes at a fireman's breakfast to just about everybody that had a need for a repeater. When the MSR2000 came out the Micor was still king of the mountain and most customers and tech's did not see the need to replace a relatively new perfectly good working repeater, simply because Motorola had a new offering. In my experiences and observations there was a fewer number of the MSR series of radios that were sold when compared to the Micor series. I have seen quite a few of MSR VHF repeaters come out of service, but have not seen any UHF MSR's at all around here. Overall in looking for some myself, I have seen more UHF MSF5000 series repeaters surplus than UHF MSR2000 repeaters. Good luck with your project. Don't give up, there has to be some of these radios out there somewhere. If you come across a gross of them somewhere I am looking for a couple myself. Joe - WA7JAW --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Eric Grabowski <ejgrabow...@...> wrote: > > It's hard to believe that all of these are already in the landfill, but maybe > that is indeed the case. Bummer! It looked like these would have made a fun > project. Oh well. >
