Neil, As a matter of fact I think you are correct. I seem to remember something to that effect. Was that a part of the settlement with RCA? Maybe so.
Paul -----Original Message----- From: Neil McKie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 11:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE Stuff..... Paul, I read that. After looking at the VEETAC Manual I have here, I agree with you. The message I sent (see below) I wrote a couple of hours before I sent it. Your comment (also below) came in after I had sent mine out. Correct me if I am wrong, didn't GE finally own the two-way radio division of RCA? Neil Paul Finch wrote: > > Neil, > > As I said in a earlier email, RCA was sued successfully by GE because > it was so obvious that RCA had copied the GE Master II design. The > RCA looked almost exactly like the GE, what was RCA thinking! RCA > would never recover and shortly after closed the radio division. > > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil McKie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 10:14 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE Stuff..... > > I believe the 1000 was the better known as the ML1000 ML for the > RCA plant in Meadowlands. The 1000 or ML1000 was a larger (higher > power version) of the Series 700 radios. > > With this discussion, I finally went out to my garage ... and went > looking ... and found the following - all RCA: > > Three ML1000 manuals on 50 and 450 MHz bands. > > A Tac 200 (VEETAC) Fixed Stations manual (SM-8025626-1) 150 MHz > (Signed and dated by the late Walt Braunstein, 9/80) > > The RF package (Transmitter/Receiver) at quick glance looks like a > Mastr II ... careful study inside parts look like an early Motorola > Syntor or 100 watt Mitrek. Uses a Temperature-Compensated Crystal > Oscillator - TCXO that in the picture looks very like a take-off of > a GE Integrated Circuit Oscillator Module - ICOM. > > The CTCSS 'Quiet Channel' module is immediately behind the front > panel just like the Mastr II. The antenna relay is a take-off from > a Micor. > > The receiver front end helical resonators are soldered to the > circuit board. > > The control head looks like a cross between Micor and Mastr II > control heads. Internally looks like a Mitrek control head. > > ----- > > I trust there a few folks who fondly remember the earlier RCA gear. > For you, I found the following: > > An October 1978 Price Schedule for Replacement Parts and Accessories > for RCA Mobile Communications Equipment. (2 copies) > > Advertising poop sheet for VEETAC control head stacking kits. > > Advertising poop sheet for the VEETAC High Band and UHF radios. > > Some TAC300 and TACTEC service info and a photocopied CMU-10A manual. > > Original factory supplied manuals: > > Super Carfone 450-470 mobile station. Remember the instant heating > tubes? > > Carfone 450 CSU-15C ... base station used a 5894 in the final. > > Carfone CMV-4 ... the receiver crystal formula: > > Channel Freq - 0.915 > Crystal Freq = ---------------------- = 11.62 - 13.3 Mc > 13 > > The first LO crystal was used twice ... > > The receiver was 152-174 MHz ... > The first IF was 12/.54 - 14.23 Mc (walking IF) > The second IF was 915 Kc > > Used a relay to change channels - the relay contacts switched > the crystals ... not crystal oscillators. > > Carfone Portlable Transmitter-Receiver CTR-1A weighed 44 Lbs. > > Fleetfone CMV-2EL, CMV-3EL, low band, used 1 or 2 807's in the > final depending on the power output. > I have two copies: one is stamped Mann C & E on the front cover. > > Remember the RCA 'E Line'? E = Efficiency CMUE-15A2T > with a Joe Olivera signature on the front. > > Super Basefone 25 - 54 MHz, 100 watt > written on the front is Baldwin Hills (A CHP radio site in > the Los Angeles area) > > Remember the FCC required 452-C tags - Transmitter Identification > Tags to be stuck to every FCC licensed transmitter? I have a > few of the original RCA labeled 452-C tags. > > Another place in my garage ... you remember the Motorola Service > Station peel-off-the-back stickers you stuck on your your service > truck? I have one that says RCA. > > You thought you collect stuff? > > Neil McKie - WA6KLA > > Kevin Custer wrote: > > > >>>You mean when the GE engineers dissected the Micor to help build the > >>>Mastr II? > >>> > >>>And the chief designer of the M2 was hired away by RCA. A while > >>>later a new RCA mobile came out (the name escapes me). The designer > >>>admitted that it could have been named the Mastr-3 as it was "a > >>>Mastr II with all the bugs fixed". This was long before the actual > >>>GE M3 came out. > >>> > >>>Stop by your regional library some time and look in the periodical > >>>index for the Fortune magazine article abut the rush project the RCA > >>>mobile radio division had to get the new radio out the door. > >>> > >>>I whish I had kept that copy when my dad was a subscriber. > >>> > >>>Mike WA6ILQ > >>> > > > > If memory serves me correctly, that would be either the RCA TAC 200 > > and/or RCA 1000 built about 50 miles from my home. And yes the Chief > > Design Engineer was taken away from GE's Mobile Radio Division in > > Lynchburg VA to go work for RCA in Meadowlands (Little Washington) > > Pennsylvania. > > > > Kevin > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
