[Elecraft] Motorola Speaker VS Bookshelf Speaker ?

[kc4kgu@ENTERZONE.NET]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Stuart Rohre wrote:

> I believe, the Motorola, RCA and GE mobile speakers were optimized to the
> voice band in a high noise police car environment.  That makes them a good
> ham band speaker.  Probably have a pretty good magnet on them, to move the
> cone for good efficiency in an open window car.
> 73, Stuart K5KVH
> 

Indeed.  Remember, during petrolium scare(s) in the late 70's, early 80's,
many police depts BANNED the use of A/C in the cruisers so, the
communications speakers had to compete with wind noise, traffic noice,
siren, etc. 

73 de John - KC4KGU
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