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Hello John, I remember the tool problem ... you *had* to be very careful no matter what you did. So sorry to read about the babys death. That is difficult for anyone. Are you still married to Noelle? I that you were divorced way back. Neil JOHN MACKEY wrote: Neil McKie

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Oops, that was supposed to have been a private message to John. Neil Neil McKie wrote: Hello John, I remember the tool problem ... you *had* to be very careful no matter what you did. So sorry to read about the babys death. That is difficult for anyone. Are you

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Hello John and others too ... JOHN MACKEY wrote: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still have one here - is a T1411A Mark XII which is a 12 Freq carrier squelch, duplex radio. SNIP Expected receiver sensitivity is 0.7 uv SNIP That's what the manual says ... ;)

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Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that capacitor. If you happen to accidentially short across the capacitor plates with your tuning tool, you would blow the varactor diode. Sounds like you had the wrong Motorola tuning tool ... :( The problem was that what motorola directed as

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Sorry everyone, I intended to send this as a private e-mail to Neil. JOHN MACKEY [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that capacitor. If you happen to accidentially short across the capacitor plates with your tuning tool, you would blow the varactor diode.

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[snip] In my opinion the radio was really more of a UHF mobile phone that was modified to be a land mobile radio which could ONLY be used on a repeater since it was incapable of simplex. The 12 channel option had to be pretty cool at that time. Do you know, did they ever make the land mobile

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I still have one here - is a T1411A Mark XII which is a 12 Freq carrier squelch, duplex radio. The manual that covers it is 68-81006E80 I have a copy here T44MSN1190AK 4 Freq - Carrier Squelch T44MSN3190AK 4 Freq - Private Line Squelch T1409A12 Freq -

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Neil McKie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still have one here - is a T1411A Mark XII which is a 12 Freq carrier squelch, duplex radio. SNIP Expected receiver sensitivity is 0.7 uv SNIP I sold my last Mark XII/T44MSN/T1411/etc at the Rickreal ham swap meet several years ago. I had a