The helicals are the same, the board layout is different but the layering of components is very close meaning the if stages - there are some parts the exact same. The executive line does not have the dual squelch stuff that was the big thing in 72 when that idea debuted, you will find it pretty easy overall to move to the ham band. There was a desktop frame called a royal exec that had the power supply inside and will run a 40 watt tray all day, if you find one of these open the case and take away the inside and it mounts right onto 19 rack making service pretty easy. If you found brown handle high band they are the pll exciter model, at least as built back then. There is a lot of discussion about the pa deck tripler for uhf which is found in the silver handle model, although you should really look as so many have been swapped out and have a uhf pm exciter in the drawer already. When I look at the radios at swapfests I peek at how populated the pa deck is and you can tell how much reworking has been done if there are solder blobs all over the place, bad soldering has caused many radios to go sour that I have seen - I always recommend flowing the joints when it appears components have failed because many times they haven't they just aren't making contact. If you get a radio from a car accident the metal cover may have twisted enough to let rain water in while the car was at the body shop lot or even at the accident scene before being towed to the shop, if the cab driver was just in a accident he is going to be calling on the radio until someone answers him so the pa will get warm and then wind blows open the trunk and the water drops in and klink - the pyrex effect on the radio. Then it goes to the shop for a new pa deck when there is just some time needed to fix the original, or who knows what gets done. Neil McKie wrote: > > I have a question for you GE 'experts.' Is the receiver front end > on the High Band Exec II the same as the Mastr II? How about the IF > chain? Comparing performance, is there a difference? > > I wouldn't know, so far, I have been collecting the things for a > while ... later this winter, I hope to place a GE Exec II high band > model on a two meter repeater pair. > > As some of you know, my main interest is 95% Motorola; RCA, GE and > a couple of other things follow that. Fired up a pair of RCA Series > 700 table-top base stations yesterday - work just fine too. > > The Mastr II's I recently bought for $5 each are brown handle which, > some say, are better than the non-brown handle types. > > My collection of GE is currently way behind that of Motorola ... > manuals included. I have the rough equivalent of three GE Data-Files > here ... trying to merge them is becomming interesting ... > > (I did unload an operational low band GE Progress Line a year or so > ago. I used to service those things back in the sixties. Also used > to service the GE Pre-Progress Line stuff too.) > > Enuf for now, > > Neil - WA6KLA > > Chuck Kelsey wrote: > > > > He probably did. I was responding to the post regarding $10 UHF > > MII's. I don't doubt that the high bands ones were going for $5. > > > > Chuck > > WB2EDV > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "mch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 3:09 PM > > Subject: Re: [[Repeater-Builder] Spectrum Communication SCR1000] > > > > > Didn't the guy say he had two 2M pairs, though? (read: Not UHF) > > > > > > Joe M. > > > > > > Chuck Kelsey wrote: > > > > > > > > That's the exception, not the rule. Typically UHF (non tripler) MII's go > > for > > > > $75 - $100. But even at that price, you are looking at the RF being the > > > > cheapest part of the equation. The antenna will cost more, the feedline > > may > > > > cost more, the controller will cost more, the power supply will cost > > more > > > > and a base station duplexer will cost more. I'll assume that the tower > > and > > > > site are free. > > > > > > > > So, a free radio doesn't mean much in the whole scheme of things. > > > > > > > > And for $10 per UHF radio... tell me you bought the entire lot... or > > start > > > > kicking yourself in the rear end. > > > > > > > > Chuck > > > > WB2EDV > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Neil McKie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > > Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 2:10 AM > > > > Subject: Re: [[Repeater-Builder] Spectrum Communication SCR1000] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A recent swapmeet in the northwest Oregon area had UHF Mastr II's > > > > > at $10 each ... and hi-band Mastr II's at $5 each. He had 50-60 > > > > > radios at the swapmeet. > > > > > > > > > > Neil - WA6KLA > > > > > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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