JW wrote:

I'm the radio and equipment officer for a 30 man Fire and Rescue department
in North Carolina, using vhf, 154.355. We average buying about half a dozen
new pagers per years to replace old/defective/lost pagers.

2's were good radios, but crystal controlled, reed controlled tones.

3's were junk, therefore not around long.

4's have also given us a lot of problems, losing programming, stop alerting,
etc. I even have the programming hardware and software for them, and still
end up having to send them back to the service point for repair.

I was just about to start looking outside the Motorola world for our next
bunch of pagers, but guess will give the 5's a try first.


I appreciate your evaluation and comments. I used to own a
Minitor 11 and it worked very well, and I was a hobby listener
at that time. I do remember it sounded very well, the
decoder worked good, and the battery lasted a long time.
I'm actually thinking about buying another Minitor 11
at:

http://www.pwservice.com/compare.htm

Thanks again.

KM.

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 21:53:29 -0400, wrote:

I may be doing some free lancing in the near future and wanted to
ask a few questions about a Minitor 2 vs Minitor 3 radio pager
unit.

This would be operating in the 154 mhz band with 2-tone paging.

From reading various articles in the past I got the impression
the Minitor 3's were synthesized units, and were disasters
when they were 1st placed into service by Motorola. Is this
true?

Is there a Minitor 4 pager available?

Should I try and buy a new unit or clean used unit? Any information
appreciated.

Thanks.

KM


IIIs were crap. We had the misfortune of purchasing 30 of these
*******s when they first came out, nothing but trouble and quickly
replaced by the manufacture with remanufactured IIIs.

IIs, of which we still have many, are hard to find parts for.

We have decided to go away from pagers and start purchasing radios for
all members. We will of course program these radios (Motorola HT-1550)
to match the rank/level of each fire fighter and not all fire fighters
will have access to all channels. considering the price of a pager vs.
the price and abilities of a 2-Way, we decided in the long run, it's
more economical to go with the radios.



/CF