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Motorola Saber Series
Introduction
The Saber portable radio is a product of Motorola USA, Inc. The Saber is a commercial radio that was developed for the U.S. military sometime around 1989. The Saber is widely recognizable by thin, sleek design compared to other radios at the time. Despite the fact that the Saber was originally marketed to the military, many law enforcement agencies and fire departments realized the benefits of the Saber and Motorola soon had a much larger customer base for the radio than they expected.
Saber Conventional
The first Saber line was Conventional operation only. The conventional Sabers were capable of PL/DPL, full duplex and encryption capable. The Saber came in 4 different flavors; I, II, III, and IE. The Model I has 12 channels in 1 zone. No display or keypad. The IE was a Model I with an additional zone of 12 channels, 24 in all. The Model II is either capable of 4 zones of 48 or 10 zones of 120 channels. This is dependant on the memory. It has a backlight display which was capable of 5 alphanumeric characters if you have the 120 channel 2 KB version or the basic zone/channel display for the 48 channel version. It came with 3 softkeys to access menu options. Model III was basically a model II with a full DTMF keypad.
Systems Saber
The Systems Saber was capable of analog Trunking operation and had an explosive channel capacity of 255.
ASTRO™ Digital Saber
The Astro Saber was introduced in the mid 90’s and was a technologically advanced and state of the art at the time. The Astro Saber is feature packed Not only is it capable of IMBE Digital and conventional analog on a per channel basis, but also 12.5/25 KHz per channel as well. This makes the Astro Saber Narrow Band compliant.
Model I has 16 channels, in 1 zone. No display or keypad. Model II has 16 channels in 16 zones and a 14 character alphanumeric backlight display. It came with 6 softkey buttons to access an advanced menu. Model III was basically a model II with a full DTMF keypad.
External links
- [http://www.repeater-builder.com/motorola/saber/saber-index.html
- (http://www.akardam.net/moto/docs/mirrored/combined.pdf
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