[Boatanchors] Spacers

[Glen Zook]

The earlier ones were made of metal and the later ones
were just plastic.  I may still have a few of them
around left over from when I owned the Motorola
Reconditioned Equipment Center for the south-central
United States (1970 until they went out of that end of
the business in 1979).  Will have to look.  They
probably are plastic but I may even have some metal
ones.  I still have a number of "bits and pieces" from
that era.

By the way, in their "hey day" Motorola had about 70%
of the two-way market, General Electric had about 20%,
RCA had about 5%, and the other compaines had the
remaining 5%.

The mobile telephones that you probably installed were
the MTS TLD-1000, the IMTS TLD-1100, and the RCC
TLD-1470.  They were basically the same radio with the
1470 using a different i.f. crystal for the different
spacing of the RCC receiving channels from the
transmitting channels.  We reconditioned up to 100 of
those in a weeks time, primarily converting all of the
MTS and IMTS over to RCC.  Easy conversion, just
replaced the i.f. crystal and retuned the high i.f.
strip.

Glen, K9STH


--- telegrapher at att.net wrote:

back when Motorla had a corner or at least a big chunk
of the market in "mobile telephones" and i did my
share of installation work on them, they used some big
spacers that fit under the case which supported the
case/radio up off the floor of a truck or wherever it
was mounted.  I'm wondering if anyone has any of these
laying around anyplace.  they fit around about a 1/4
inch bolt/screw and were about 3/8th inch thick.  I'm
really in have doubts about any of them still being
around but in the event you happen to ahve about a
doven of them, i'd be glad to take them off your
hands.  Otherwise, i'll have to come up with something
else.  No, i'm not going to put one of those big heavy
beasts in my truck so i can say i've got a mobile
telephone either!!!!!









Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


 
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