Neil, You want to sell them let me know. They are great little radios and easy to mod to a repeater. My first 559 worked so well it was stolen off the site where it was, worst part was that site was the roof of the Tarrant County Sheriff's office! I had built the controller, you could do all sorts of things with it from turning it off to lowering the power from 40 watts to 6 via DTMF.
Paul -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil McKie Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 7:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE 220 conversion I picked up a pair of the UHF Fleetcom II's a few years ago ... at a swapmeet or somewhere. Got them and a base station power supply - all for $25 I think. All is in a box in my garage - upstairs toward the east end of the storage area as I remember. Haven't looked at them in years. Like them or not, I have noticed over the years, the guys who use older Johnson radios, swear by them. Neil Paul Finch wrote: > > Neil, > > The Fleetcom II series radio is the 530 I was talking about, right > now I have a 530 and a 559 as my Ham repeaters. I had the 500 foot > tower erected in 1998 and they have been working since then with no > troubles. In fact they ran on a 60 foot tower for a couple of > years before that. The 530 is getting deaf for some reason but for > a 25 year old radio that ain't bad history. > > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil McKie > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 11:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE 220 conversion > > Hey Paul, > > Ever heard of a Johnson Fleetcom II? > > Neil > > Paul Finch wrote: > > > > Kevin, > > > > Sorry, I don't think so. Guess it's the nightmares I still have > > from my days in the paging industry, I have sort of revolted > > against Motorola equipment. Long boring story, none of it good. > > > > I may order crystals for a old Johnson 530 and have my fun > > modifying it. So far all my other repeaters are Johnson, might > > as well make one more work. They simple and just run and run. > > > > Paul > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin Custer > > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 5:31 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] GE 220 conversion > > > > Paul Finch wrote: > > > > >Hello, > > > > > >Which of the three or four 220 MHz conversions are best that are listed > on > > >the Repeater Builder site? Any positives or negatives to any of them? > > >Anything better out there for these conversions? > > > > > > > Yea, use a Micor. (no I'm not kidding) > > > > Kevin > > Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
