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.

wrote in message
...
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

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.