I wonder if the Tait 220 stuff is type accepted. Not that I care, but it may make a difference in whether or not the dealer would try and get them for us. Just curious. We could always go directly to a tait dealer in ZL land and get them shipped, but the shipping costs would be high.
Another option to consider is getting stuff from the UK and Europe. Over there, that band segment was/is called "VHF Band 3"(some trunked). I looked into that awhile back. Most of the equipment I found on UK ebay was narrow band, but might be modified (or used as-is?) Anyway, VHF Band 3 is now some sort of terrestrial digital broadcast band, so the old two way radio gear is pretty much worthless there now. It should be able to be had for a bargain, not counting shipping.. 7treez, na6df --- In [email protected], Jed Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That souds like a plan > Yeah 220 stuff is getting very very hard to find for sure On Sep 26, > 2007, at 2:55 PM, Doug Bade wrote: > > > There was some notes I read somewhere that the channel steps on the > > 220 version was limited and in this country we could not access ALL > > freq's on 15/20 khz band plans.. just some... I think I read it was > > 12k5or 10k0 or something like this, and channel stepped which did > > not match all of our bandplans...I would want to check into it before > > finding out the hard way.. > > > > Doug > > KD8B > > > > > > At 02:47 PM 9/26/2007, you wrote: > > > > > >> 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>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>http://www.taitworld.com/main/index.cfm/3,178,241/ > >> sp8115_final.pdf > >> - > >> see page two/specifications for bands, etc. > >> > >> -- > >> Nate Duehr, WY0X > >> <mailto:nate%40natetech.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
