This story on Channel 7 says the Motorola Astro radios that the Los
Angeles Police Dept. uses are 14 years old, out of production, and
becoming unreliable. The LAPD has its eye on a new radio, but it costs
$3400. Replacing 10,000 Astros will be expensive. No decision has been
made yet.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?se...cal&id=5529090

Years ago I used to carry an Astro on the job. When it replaced our
old MX350 and Sabre radios it was about the trickest thing we'd seen,
with features like scanning multiple talkgroups and private calling to
an individual radio over the trunked system.

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Paul Hirose
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"Paul Hirose" wrote in message
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This story on Channel 7 says the Motorola Astro radios that the Los
Angeles Police Dept. uses are 14 years old, out of production, and
becoming unreliable. The LAPD has its eye on a new radio, but it costs
$3400. Replacing 10,000 Astros will be expensive. No decision has been
made yet.

$3400 for a basic APCO-25 radio? I don't think so. Buy a P-25 radio from
Kenwood or one of the other competitors and save $2K each.

http://www.actioncommunications.com/...=800MhzDigital

"Travis Jordan" wrote in message
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"Paul Hirose" wrote in message
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This story on Channel 7 says the Motorola Astro radios that the Los
Angeles Police Dept. uses are 14 years old, out of production, and
becoming unreliable. The LAPD has its eye on a new radio, but it costs
$3400. Replacing 10,000 Astros will be expensive. No decision has been
made yet.

$3400 for a basic APCO-25 radio? I don't think so. Buy a P-25 radio from
Kenwood or one of the other competitors and save $2K each.

http://www.actioncommunications.com/...=800MhzDigital


Thats what happens when you get overzealous salesmen and uninformed
politicians (or others) footing the bill. They take for granted - the
Sellers/Installers first price. I've seen it happen here far too often.

"Travis Jordan" wrote...
"Paul Hirose" wrote in message
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This story on Channel 7 says the Motorola Astro radios that the Los
Angeles Police Dept. uses are 14 years old, out of production, and
becoming unreliable. The LAPD has its eye on a new radio, but it costs
$3400. Replacing 10,000 Astros will be expensive. No decision has been
made yet.

$3400 for a basic APCO-25 radio? I don't think so. Buy a P-25 radio from
Kenwood or one of the other competitors and save $2K each.

http://www.actioncommunications.com/...=800MhzDigital

Oops - sorry, wrong band -- should have been 470, not 800 Mhz.

Try Icom's IC-F80DT for the same price:
http://www.ga.wa.gov/pca/contract/02...e_I-052605.pdf