GE PR36, shudder! A brick with wires that easily broke when the case was opened or shut. Not a nice radio to have on the bench.
I ran a Portamobile 1 on 52.525 about 10 years ago, guess I'll have to dig it out of the storage and see what shape it's in these days. Moving slightly off topic, I recently came across a Motorola mobile mic with the cast metal housing. A real favorite of the cops back in the day; it had many uses, only one of which had anything to do with communicating via voice. Other uses had to do with communicating, but were more non-verbal in nature and directed at the jerk in the back seat of the cruiser. Milt N3LTQ ----- Original Message ----- From: La Rue Communications To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's) How about a GE PR 36? Does that qualify for old? (Esentially I think anything in our two-way museum that we're getting set up eventually qualifies as old) :-) Nice thing about the older gear - is that its SO hardy! Incredible that some of the stuff we have thats old and obsolete still works and works well! Whereas a lot of newer gear, if it got to be as old as the "old stuff" would be worthless and junked as forever inoperable! John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora Street Stockton, CA 95202 http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn ----- Original Message ----- From: Captainlance To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's) Wow.. memories... A Link 50UFS low band base station.. We have one here, too... Still works. Lance N2HBA ----- Original Message ----- From: La Rue Communications To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's) I think I automatically disqualify myself since I dont know too much about our units. But one of the cornerstone pieces of our shop is our Link Repeater. Im not trying to one up anyone - but rather share and get into the OLD stuff with the rest of ya. I also dont think I qualify because I grew up on CHiPs and Dukes of Hazard..... :) So overlook that little fact and let me ask if anyone has dabbled with this machine? (See attached) John Hymes La Rue Communications 10 S. Aurora Street Stockton, CA 95202 http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn ----- Original Message ----- From: John Gleichweit To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's) Whaddaya mean lunchboxes don't count? I have a pair of GE Portamobile II's in the shop just begging to be recrystalled and ready to rock. If course, I was considering building those into APRS trackers or packet boxes, where everything was built inside, and all you needed to do was plug in a laptop. I dug an actual GE "HandiTalkie" out of the bottom of a box that was full of surplus stuff from the county. In that same lot was a couple of MX300s. -- John "Smokey Behr" Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 List Owner x10, Moderator x9 CalEMA 51-507 http://smokeybehr.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/smokeybehr ----- Original Message ---- > From: skipp025 <skipp...@yahoo.com> > To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Sun, July 25, 2010 7:00:36 PM > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's) > > > > Allow me to show my age ... > > To me, the HT-220 is/was a Xtal Controlled Ht !! > > Allow me to show my age... > > The HT here is a VHF Engineering 2 Meter Portable > assembled from a kit... and it still works. > > :-) > > s. > > ps: Surplus Motorola and GE Lunch Boxes don't count on > the bragging scale. > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
