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Are you asking about pagers? If so I like the BR802. I carry 2 pagers, 1 for fire and 1 for search and rescue. My 2nd is a Motorola Advisor Gold.. it's also a good pager.

well my dept stuck me with a minitor 2. its pretty out dated but it still works... somehow.

we have minitor V, the 2s are nice cause you can have the crystal changed an ignore the ems calls at night. lol

 Used Minitor 3's & 4's for sale.

We've had a lot of problems with Minitor Vs, particularly with the chargers.  Though we did have one dropped on a brush fire that had the case melted and it still worked.  

We're currently trying out the Swissphone RE629 and have had good results.  We like the small size and the time stamp.  Price is less than the Vs.

You can go in and activate the vibrator (which can be fun to use....) through the software for controlling the little rascals.

I'd recommend that departments look at the new radios that have built in page functionality too. Much more useful.

BLPavlovich says ...

My department uses Motorola Minitor V's and a few have portables. We've also had some problems with our chargers for the pagers as well. In fact, I have problems with mine. Half the time it won't charge, and sometimes it will just keep blinking red instead of a steady red light when I go to charge it. And you guys are lucky that your department has vibrate on your pagers. We don't, even with the Minitor V's.

Like KD7CAO has said, the vibrate feature can be activated via software.  When we bought our pagers, we also bought the programming cradle and software.  "C" on our Vs are what I call "church mode," in that it only vibrates and you have to hit the replay button to hear the dispatch.  This is great for church or other formal functions where you don't want the pager going off.  You can quickly walk outside and hit the replay button without disturbing everyone else.

There's also a feature where the alert tones (the really fast beep,beep, beep) can be kept at full volume, no matter what the volume of the pager is set to, which is helpful for those firefighters that constantly miss calls because their SOs turned the pager down.

If you've been having problems with the chargers, contact Motorola and they'll replace them.  They had a recall on most of the chargers, particularly the amplified version.

The Minitor 3's and 4's (and I think the 2's as well) have a record option.  On top of the volume knob there is a pushbutton that will replay the call.  Records for 10 seconds I believe...............

See my minitor doesn't have that button that you are talking about