>>
>>That's another strange comment-I haven't fired up the ones I have, but I
>>remember that a local (very small) PD near where I used to live had a
>>VHF one in the chief's car tied to the 39Mhz mobile. I was working for a
>>'basement MSS' at the time, and was told that that unit put out about
>>1-2 W. The chief would park the car at the station, turn on the PAC-RT,
>>and use his portable all over town! He said there wasn't much of
>>anywhere in town he couldn't go...heh
>>(It WAS one of the very first ones out there, back around 1979-80 I think.)
>>--
>>Jim Barbour
>>WD8CHL
>
>
> The PAC-RT manual I have says that it's a 250mw output transmitter. It
> shows a Handi Com MH10 or MH70 (I forget the model number) handheld
> board in it with the final transistor and it's collector resistor removed and
> a capacitor bridging the base and collector pads.
>
Yeah-the book and the spec sheets said 250mW, but the wattmeter said a
watt or two. I remember because the shop owner made a comment about how
it was supposed to be 1/4W, but did a lot more...
> Either someone put a regular handicom board in it, or it must have been
> a real small town with the police station on a slight hill.
>
No hill, but it was a REAL small town. You were never more than 2-3
miles from the station.
> Moto did some strange stuff to try and make sales... I can imagine the
> Chief's PAC-RT appearing with the undocumented "high power option".
>
> Mike
>
Sorta like the '75 Mustang II (you know, the fancy Pinto version) my
father had that came with a 302 V8, which was a normal option...but the
C7 police interceptor tranny wasn't. It turned 10.7 in the 1/4...and
blew the toque conv. at abt 80,000...
Back to radios, a cusotmer of ours that has their own EDACS trunked
system on a localized facility has SEVERAL 100W mobiles in the pile-to
talk to a system that they are never more than a couple of miles
from...I turn 'em all down as low as they'll go...abt 18W.
--
Jim Barbour
WD8CHL
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