Re: showing our age (really old radios) Even worse, I passed on two huge Fred Link Transmitters, one a carrier current and the mate an on air version of the same box, both on what is now the AM Broadcast Band.
A ham friend of mine proudly displays his Convention Photo of him standing next to Fred Link... both in the picture look pretty darn constipated but that's how the 1970's were. The above mentioned friend just called me on the phone during my typing of this post and also mentioned he currently has two Link Control Heads he plans to use/install. Upstage that mint condition Motrac Control head another friend is using. s. > "Sid" <purvis...@...> 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 Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, 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: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > > 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: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > > 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: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
