[Boatanchors] Spacers

[Jack Taylor]

Interesting as to what resources can be found out here in this forum!

Back in the days of the Motorola 80D's, I worked for a Motorola Service
Station.  Seems to me we would get two each manuals with each radio.
I don't know if Motorola still has that policy but recently I went looking
for a service manual on the Motorola Syntor X VHF radio.  These units
were from the era of around 1984-1985.  However nothing yet has
surfaced locally.  Any chance someone has an extra?

73 de Jack -  N7OO
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Glen Zook 
To: telegrapher at att.net ; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Spacers


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