"Dr. Anton T. Squeegee" wrote in message
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Another example would be something like the Motorola Spectra (shown at:
http://images.batlabs.com/mobiles/speca9.jpg) - but you can't get those
in dual band.

Ahh... As the owner of a pair of Spectras, and as a tech who works
on them almost every week, I can assure you that their displays are not
"color LCD."

The closest they come is, on the Astro Spectras, a monochrome LCD
panel consisting of 2 lines of 16 characters each.

The standard 'Systems 9000' head is nothing more than a blue VF
(Vacuum-Fluorescent) display tube with 15 segments per character instead
of 7.

While it is true that individual Spectras were never made in a
dual-band configuration, the same functionality was achieved by using
two radio drawers (VHF and UHF), a handheld control head, and a
specialized system interface unit to tie it all together. Such setups
were frequently used by government agencies, most of whom went under
three-letter abbreviations.

Now, with that said... I would be curious to know if you turn up
something along the lines you describe. I'd like to look at it myself.

Happy hunting.


--
Dr. Anton T. Squeegee, Director, Dutch Surrealist Plumbing Institute.
(Known to some as Bruce Lane, ARS KC7GR,
kyrrin (a/t) bluefeathertech[d=o=t]calm -- www.bluefeathertech.com
"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped
with surreal ports?"

Might I ask if you have a source for used Astro Spectras?
I may not be able to afford such (I have no idea how much they cost since I
never see them as "used". But I do have a use for one or two if I can find
them.

73

Jerry