Stan-the-Man Pro Radio Service Ship-to: 2005 13th Avenue Correspondence: 117 Primrose Lane Haleyville AL 35565 Phone 205-486-3119 or 269-6195 Email stan at stmradio.com Kenwood sales — Motorola repair Licensed — Insured — Experienced

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Stan-the-Man Pro Radio Service (a.k.a. "STM Radio") provides service and sales for business and public safety radio users in Marion, Winston, and part of Franklin counties in Alabama. I am trained to analyse at the component level, and have considerable experience working on radios too old for factory support, so I can often repair problems that other shops send off to the factory or junk out. This means I can often get a unit back in service the same day, and for less cost. Kenwood I sell, but I haven't had to fix very many of them.

I specialize in the Motorola SP50 and CP200 family. Both are excellent-performing radios, but they have some significant weaknesses: the accessory jack, volume control, and antenna base are affixed only by solder, so they tend to break loose. I can repair them inexpensively for you. Unfortunately, SP50 jacks are no longer available new, and I have very few good used jacks left. I repair both models by the boxful, with a same-day turnaround on these common issues. Contact me before sending anything.

For sale: two C30 Antenex low band antennas. My low-split lowband customer has gone VHF, leaving me with these new antennas in stock. Uncut, will do 29mHz, maximum cut is 35 mHz. List price is currently more than $71, I will sell these for $34 each plus shipping (estimated at about $10 for both, not much less for one). I also have two Laird C47's (47-50), will sell for $46 each.

I have a few used Motorola VHF SP10's and UHF SP21's for sale. Click for details. (Scroll down to see entire pop-up.)

Due to recent work on a broadcast station, I have some used equipment for sale. First is a "EAS 911" emergency alert encoder by TFT made in 1996, which appears to work. The passwords are 911 and 912, so you can edit all settings. No book, but simple instructions printed on top. The printer works but the ribbon was stuck in one spot for a while (unstuck now, but still a bit faint.) Similar units offered on eBay for $300 working but without passwords, or $175 in unknown condition. This one $200 including shipping up to $20.

I also have four 1970's vintage sportscaster's headsets, Telex CS91, two in good condition, one lacking its XLR connector and headband cushion, and one for parts only (the mike and earpieces work, but it is a little damaged). All for $40 including shipping up to $12.

There is an "silence alarm" in a 5"x5"x3" desktop box. It takes balanced line input and if it does not detect audio for the interval set (variable from 5 to 50 seconds) then a sonalert is activated. Press a button to silence it; if audio is restored, it begins monitoring again. The module inside has two SPDT outputs. Input level can be set also. Make an offer.

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Contact stan@stmradio.com for pricing, setup, delivery, and install.
Or phone: Shop 205-486-3119, Cell 205-269-6195. (Shop rolls forward to cell on 5th ring)
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For even more detail on current radios, visit the Kenwood Site.

Here are some links to other things I have worked on:
A basic multi-radio dispatch controller
An adjustable circuit breaker for workbench

About us: Stan-the-Man Pro Radio Service was established July 2005 by Stan Jones of Haleyville Alabama, after 21 years of service at a Motorola dealership, which closed when the owner retired. I began as a bench tech for a Motorola shop in 1984 and have repaired 1960's models Motracs (hybrid tube/transistor technology) and HT220's. The newest radios are not really meant to be repaired at the component level, but they still need maintenance for case damage, knobs, controls, jacks, speakers, batteries, and antennas. I have also worked on Wilson-Regency-Relm, Vertex, Midland (pre-1994), and Maxon, although I do not have manuals on all of those anymore.

You can now pay a bill using Intuit PaymentNetwork (affiliated with QuickBooks). Since it is so far untried, we will have to work out the details on first use. On your request I will send you an invoice by email using their site; you go to their site using a link in the email, enter your credit card information (I never see that) and authorise the payment. It appears that most debit cards will work also. The fee is 3.25%, so for example a $100 invoice would send me $96.75. If I cannot absorb that, I will adjust the amount billed accordingly, and if that is unacceptable, you can ignore the email and contact me for another means of payment. For example, if I adjusted the bill to $103.25, I would get $99.89, which I would easily absorb as a loss of 11¢.
The limit is $500 per day, and $1000 per month at present, if I understand their grid right. If you are using Quickbooks 2010 or later, you can set it up to automatically record the payment on your books. In QB 2011 you can make the payment directly from within the program. But, you do not need to own Quickbooks to use PaymentNetwork.
If you sign up your bank account as a funding source with Quickbooks (which may already be true if you use that software) then you can make a payment without a card, in which case the fees are too low to affect the final amount. Again, I never see your information.
If you have a paper invoice to pay, you can click >HERE< to go to Intuit PaymentNetwork. This takes you to a sign-in page (you have to create a sign-in account to get access). After that you can use your card or bank info to make the payment.

Or if you have PayPal (who doesn't now?) you can use it to pay an invoice. Similar fees apply.