Thank you for visiting my website!

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 at stan@stmradio.com 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 $39 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 $49 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.)

Click on this message to remove it.
Used radios: 1 watt VHF Motorola SP10's. Wide bandwidth (25k: deviation set at ±4.5kHz) only. I am now selling these as body-only (no battery or antenna, both of which you can obtain quite inexpensively online) for $20 each, $200 for all, plus shipping (USA addresses only). This includes 10 in great shape and 2 more in useable condition. Chargers are included. The gray radios use walwart chargers that plug into the single jack, as seen on the gray unit. The black units can use the walwart in the jack, or be put into a desktop pocket charger. There are four desktop chargers in this collection. I may include a used battery to get you started, no warranty, along with an odd antenna or two. You can get new batteries for $12 to $21 depending on the brand, antennas for $4 (Hong Kong) to $14 (local shop).

There are five of the gray ones (see the picture) and five of the black ones. The black ones are older refurbished units, while the gray are essentially new (one has a red mark on the front, the rest are pristine, and all are clean inside). The main difference is the accessory jack. The gray case covers over the earpiece socket, showing only the charge/mike jack. The ear socket is in there (the radios are the same inside). You can extend the hole on the gray case so that a mike or headset will fit. It is not obvious how to get the radio out; email me for instructions if interested.

Some of the black units are in fact gray units I refurbished (at considerably more than $20 per unit) and recased in black, and have a 4-frequency pick list. All the gray units use this list, while a few of the black ones have a 16-frequency list. The 4 frequencies are 151.625, 154.570, 154.600, and 151.955. Simple instructions included. You would choose one that no one nearby is already using. In a crowded city, especially an industrial area, there is a risk that all are somewhat busy. 154.570 and 154.600 do not require a license, but all channels are mandated to go narrowband at the end of 2012. These can have their Tx modulation cut back to comply (a simple internal adjustment) but the receiver will still be wide and will eventually pick up adjacent channel interference, when those frequencies begin to be used. But if you use these out in the deep woods (such as for hunting), this should never be a problem.

Shipping: add actual cost. UPS, Fedex or Postal Service. Inquire after ordering, before paying. Will range from $6 to $24 depending on the carrier, weight, insurance and distance.

See bottom of main page for payment options. Warranty: Return problem unit for evaluation (you pay shipping); I will repair at no charge (or refund if repair is impractical) within 60 days of sale (counted from ship date to you). Damage caused by dropping, crushing, water intrusion, fire, and so on, is not covered.

Thank you for visiting my website and considering doing business with STM Radio!

Click on a picture below for a descriptive page or pdf.

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)
Log in for price sheet (password given only to existing customers)
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, and saw the introduction of diode-matrix programmables in the early 80's, progressing to the current software-programmed models. The newest radios are nearly unrepairable electronically, but they still need repair for case damage, knobs, controls, jacks, speakers, batteries, and antennas. I have also worked on Wilson-Regency-Relm, GE, Vertex, Midland (pre-1994), Maxon, and even RCA (although I do not have complete manuals on all of those anymore.) I also work on public address amplifiers.

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.