On Sep 22, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Jed Barton wrote: > Does anyone know if any of the tait mobiles or portables will work > in the > amateur 220 band, or have any specs for them? > I know they have a bunch of repeaters. > Any info would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jed
They do have them, and according to a local Tait dealer, they will program into the ham bands, but I have no direct experience with them. I have programmed Tait 220 LTR rigs into the ham bands before... it was a trial-and-error thing, since the LTR rigs are channelized. I was dorking around with making one a transmitter and one a receiver for a backyard repeater. The project never got finished. But I was able to trick them into having one rig transmitting on 224.34 and the receiver on the receive portion of that pair. He was going to order a couple of mobiles into his "collection" and try them out. I should follow up with him and see what he thinks of them. I would guess from my experience with the LTR rigs, as long as their newer programming software doesn't lock the rigs to commercial frequencies (unlikely), they'd probably work just fine in Amateur service. Looking at their website, the TM8115 is a 99 channel conventional rig, and they have a version banded "D1" that is 216-266 MHz. Not sure how you go about finding a dealer in any particular area, or whether the dealer could sell the D1 banded radios in the U.S. Can't see why not, though... http://www.taitworld.com/main/index.cfm/1,178,0,44,html for docs on all the models. http://www.taitworld.com/main/index.cfm/3,178,241/sp8115_final.pdf - see page two/specifications for bands, etc. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
