"This is all before my time. When did Link stop making radios?"
I may be off by a year or two but, best I can remember, it was about 1962 or 1963. --- In [email protected], "JOHN MACKEY" <jmac...@...> wrote: > > This is all before my time. When did Link stop making radios? > > ------ Original Message ------ > Received: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:43:52 PM PDT > From: "wb6dgn" <wb6...@...> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: showing our age (old HT's) > > > > > > > I cut my teeth on Link radios. In fact, I had a hard time adjusting to > Motorola. It always seemed that they took much more circuitry and, thus, many > more parts, to do the same job (not any better) as Link. My first Links on > the ham band were the old 1905/2240 two box pair on the 146.2/146.8 repeater > in the SF Bay Area. From there I graduated to a 6000-30VR-C1, a very modern > (for the time) one piece unit. Also had some of the old 2975 Links on UHF. > Some interesting stories about that but for another time. As I got the story, > Fred Link retired and sold the company. The successor produced radios for a > very short time but they did not maintain the Link reputation in any way. > Some of the ones I got looked like prototypes; not a finished product. A > rather inglorious end to a formerly great company. > > Tom DGN > > > > --- In [email protected], "Sid" <purvissid@> wrote: > > > > > > RE: Link radios. My first ham station was a Link base unit on 40 > something MHz given to me by the sheriff when they got new equipment. I > reworked all the tuning coils and moved it to 52.525 MHz and used it for > years. Those tubes looked nice at night with the lights off. Sid. WA4VBC > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Captainlance <Captainlance@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Wow.. memories... A Link 50UFS low band base station.. We have one here, > too... Still works. > > > > Lance N2HBA > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: La Rue Communications > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:20 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think I automatically disqualify myself since I dont know too much > about our units. But one of the cornerstone pieces of our shop is our Link > Repeater. > > > > > > > > Im not trying to one up anyone - but rather share and get into the OLD > stuff with the rest of ya. I also dont think I qualify because I grew up on > CHiPs and Dukes of Hazard..... :) So overlook that little fact and let me ask > if anyone has dabbled with this machine? > > > > > > > > (See attached) > > > > > > > > John Hymes > > > > La Rue Communications > > > > 10 S. Aurora Street > > > > Stockton, CA 95202 > > > > http://tinyurl.com/2dtngmn > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: John Gleichweit > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12:04 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Whaddaya mean lunchboxes don't count? I have a pair of GE > Portamobile II's in > > > > the shop just begging to be recrystalled and ready to rock. If > course, I was > > > > considering building those into APRS trackers or packet boxes, where > everything > > > > was built inside, and all you needed to do was plug in a laptop. > > > > > > > > I dug an actual GE "HandiTalkie" out of the bottom of a box that was > full of > > > > surplus stuff from the county. In that same lot was a couple of > MX300s. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > John "Smokey Behr" Gleichweit FF1/EMT, CCNA, MCSE > > > > IPN-CAL023 N6FOG UP Fresno Sub MP183.5 ECV1852 > > > > List Owner x10, Moderator x9 CalEMA 51-507 > > > > http://smokeybehr.blogspot.com > > > > http://www.myspace.com/smokeybehr > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > > > From: skipp025 <skipp025@> > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > Sent: Sun, July 25, 2010 7:00:36 PM > > > > > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] showing our age (old HT's) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Allow me to show my age ... > > > > > > To me, the HT-220 is/was a Xtal Controlled Ht !! > > > > > > > > > > Allow me to show my age... > > > > > > > > > > The HT here is a VHF Engineering 2 Meter Portable > > > > > assembled from a kit... and it still works. > > > > > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > > > > > s. > > > > > > > > > > ps: Surplus Motorola and GE Lunch Boxes don't count on > > > > > the bragging scale. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
