Some of the comments on the Old Motorola's brought back a lot of Memories ,
There use to be a Store in oak park Il name Spectronics , I recall going
there over 40 Yrs ago it was a Drive for Me too from Indiana , They had a
large Disc Meter in the Window on 146.520 you could key your radio
Robert,
I will have to chase it up, it's at a fellow amateur's place and he is away on
holidays, back in a few days.
Cheers,
Jack
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Jack,
Does it have a long number on the bottom right corner?? (On the front cover)
Robert
And you are so correct my friend :-) Just found a place that James (KC9KTV)
was able to upload it for me in pdf.
Hey Kevin I have it on Mediafire site right now. Not sure if you would
want this for the website manuals section or not (hold your request for it
until we see what Kevin sez
RE: Link radios. My first ham station was a Link base unit on 40 something MHz
given to me by the sheriff when they got new equipment. I reworked all the
tuning coils and moved it to 52.525 MHz and used it for years. Those tubes
looked nice at night with the lights off. Sid. WA4VBC
--- In
You guys will have to find a picture of that. It sounds hysterical!
I assume Mr. McKay built the transmitter right into the mic, no?
And you will have to excuse me, but what is a 94?
I myself don't have stories like this because I am a child of the 80's, but I
love hearing about it and am know
Albert, 94 refers to 146.940 Mhz, the original frequency used by many on
FM...I got on in 1968.
Then if 94 was busy some would switch to 76 146.760.
94 was often referred to as Channel A
Most new repeaters in those days were on 146.940 with the input on 146.340.
73 John VE3AMZ
- Original
Thank you everyone, for all the service manual requests (On-list and off). I
have noted them and will keep my eyes peeled for them throughout this project.
Eric - I will have printed out the RB manual request page and will keep my eyes
peeled for those as well. :-)
Cheers!
John Hymes
La Rue
I had an interesting occurrence the other night while programing one of my UHF
P200's
It is a radio I use for 70cm and is a 438-470 unit.
Usually at the top right of the display when running the software, the
bandsplit is displayed. Well, I noticed last night that it did not display
438-470,
Re: showing our age (really old radios)
Even worse, I passed on two huge Fred Link Transmitters, one
a carrier current and the mate an on air version of the same
box, both on what is now the AM Broadcast Band.
A ham friend of mine proudly displays his Convention Photo of
him standing next to
At 06:51 AM 07/28/10, you wrote:
You guys will have to find a picture of that. It sounds hysterical!
It was. It looked like a stock mobile microphone off a Motrac.
He had a belt clip that normally held a HT, but the hangup button
from the mic fit into it just fine. He'd have the end of mic
There's a 2mb version of it at repeater-builder.
Go to the Test Equipment page, then Motorola.
If yours is a cleaner / better/ more complete version
let me know. I'll replace it with yours.
Mike WA6ILQ
At 01:30 AM 07/28/10, you wrote:
And you are so correct my friend :-) Just found a place
Look at W6KGBs article on moving 450-470 Mastr IIs
to 420-450. It's on the GE Mastr II page at repeater-builder.
You could use a Mastr II UHF mobile with the receiver,
exciter and IPA converted to 420, then use the receiver
in an aux receiver chassis at the voter site.
You wouldn't need to
Don't think it'll go that far... the articles at R-B will tell you for
certain.
I guess the easiest way is to read the station programming and see where it
is now... if it's in the 800 MHz band, it won't go to 900.
Mark - N9WYS
-Original Message-
From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
At 11:46 PM 7/27/2010, ka9qjg wrote:
Some of the comments on the Old Motorola's brought back a lot of
Memories , There use to be a Store in oak park Il name Spectronics
, I recall going there over 40 Yrs ago it was a Drive for Me too
from Indiana , They had a large Disc Meter in the
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
Hi all,
Without the RF Tools provided by 11807E opt 100 on HP 8924C, how to measure
return loss and cable fault?
The 11807E opt 100 provides the IBASIC program that can show the return loss
profile over the range of frequency and indicates the max/min return loss and
the corresponding
mfj 259
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Dickson dicksonf...@... wrote:
Hi all,
Without the RF Tools provided by 11807E opt 100 on HP 8924C, how to measure
return loss and cable fault?
The 11807E opt 100 provides the IBASIC program that can show the return loss
profile over
I would buy a bunch of those vinyl boots that look like strain reliefs
its really more of a cb product for 8u
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Tony tonyn2...@... wrote:
I was taught by an old ham who did a lot of commercial installations the
following.
His advice was to use good
we are hearing that the fcc is going to limit output power to 2 watts
in the gmrs service
that would preclude all repeaters and implies handheld use only
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Andy agrimm0...@... wrote:
I just applied for my GMRS license yesturday evening. I got a
Sounds like bogus information. why not just surf the FCC web site and
quantify the rumor!
_
From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Fuggitaboutit
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:54 PM
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject:
That box you have on top (the old BatWinger) I have one of sitting on the floor
in the shop next to the bench.
Maybe I should dig up some of the ancient radios that I have floating around
and
take pix of them.
--
John Smokey Behr Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE
IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno
On 7/28/2010 1:11 PM, skipp025 wrote:
I lay down a base wrap of decent quality tape before applying
the Scotch 130c because I do work for (other) people who very
often change their mind.
Ah, the famous courtesy wrap as it's known out here in the East!
73, Joe, K1ike
That isn't bogus information. There is currently a proposed rule making by the
FCC that is suggesting just that. Search the archives within the last 4 - 5
weeks and you'll see the posts.
Don, KD9PT
- Original Message -
From: David Jordan
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
The FCC is asking for feedback on this proposal.
Possibilty exists that Repeaters may be done away with.also no License
Although am not into GMRS(Have an Amateur Repeater.
Wesley AB8KD
- Original Message -
From: Don Kupferschmidt
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent:
Absolutely true.
And that's only the start of it.
Look up NPRM 10-119 in Google.
Mike
At 12:54 PM 07/28/10, you wrote:
we are hearing that the fcc is going to limit output power to 2 watts
in the gmrs service
that would preclude all repeaters and implies handheld use only
--- In
Wow Mike, you are da man!
(that and you have WY too much time on your hands! g)
To have the kind of detail at your fingertips is, well.. downright scary!
Ah, the SoCal days of the 34/94 wars, wars with DR0NK and so on.
Ken
At 10:18 AM 7/28/2010, Mike Morris wrote:
At 06:51 AM
Hi If you go to mygmrs.com they have a lot of detail and information about how
to respond to the latest government buy out by business
The FCC is going to make GMRS go away unless we post responses to there
proposals
Chris Quirk; W6CJQ WQHA994
District Emergency Coordinator
East Bay Section
I cut my teeth on Link radios. In fact, I had a hard time adjusting to
Motorola. It always seemed that they took much more circuitry and, thus, many
more parts, to do the same job (not any better) as Link. My first Links on the
ham band were the old 1905/2240 two box pair on the 146.2/146.8
This is all before my time. When did Link stop making radios?
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Received: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:43:52 PM PDT
From: wb6dgn wb6...@att.net
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: showing our age (old HT's)
I cut my teeth on Link radios.
1953?
Lance N2HBA
- Original Message -
From: JOHN MACKEY
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: showing our age (old HT's)
This is all before my time. When did Link stop making radios?
--
This is all before my time. When did Link stop making radios?
I may be off by a year or two but, best I can remember, it was about 1962 or
1963.
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, JOHN MACKEY jmac...@... wrote:
This is all before my time. When did Link stop making radios?
Make that '52 or '53. Gotta remember, the 5 is in the middle!
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, wb6dgn wb6...@... wrote:
This is all before my time. When did Link stop making radios?
I may be off by a year or two but, best I can remember, it was about 1962 or
1963.
--- In
Make that '52 or '53. Gotta remember, the 5 is in the middle!
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, wb6dgn wb6...@... wrote:
This is all before my time. When did Link stop making radios?
I may be off by a year or two but, best I can remember, it was about 1962 or
1963.
--- In
I use Scotch # 88 and then Scotchcote and I have never had a problem.
On 7/28/2010 1:17 PM, Joe wrote:
On 7/28/2010 1:11 PM, skipp025 wrote:
I lay down a base wrap of decent quality tape before applying
the Scotch 130c because I do work for (other) people who very
often change their mind.
I am using the Motorola CDM series of radios for 420-425 MHz links from
voting sites. They make a low-split UHF split that covers 403-470 MHz out
of the box, no mods needed. On the transmit sites, you will want to use a
fan for cooling. We mount the RX radio and a UHF TX radio on a 1U rack
Pulling it back apart isn't an issue with the 130C if you apply it sticky side
out. Once you slit down through the vinyl and 130c with a knife, you can peel
it apart to open up the splice.
Yeah, its a little work to get it to release from the jacket of the cable...
but its doing its job
On 7/28/2010 11:21 PM, ve7fet wrote:
Pulling it back apart isn't an issue with the 130C if you apply it
sticky side out. Once you slit down through the vinyl and 130c with a
knife, you can peel it apart to open up the splice.
Yeah, its a little work to get it to release from the jacket
First you'll need a return loss bridge. No replacing that.
The 11807 software can make things a little prettier, but you can still do
return loss quite easily. Distance to fault is going to be a bit more
challenge, but it can be done too.
Return loss is the easiest to set up. You'll need to
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