[Lowfer] Looking for odd-ball HiFER QRP item.

[Mike Staines]

Kurt:

I have seen the same, or similar, units used to talk novice sky-divers
("pull the left shroud line...  Lift your feet..." etc.

Perhaps a local skydiver or club can point you in the right direction.

Mike
WM1KE
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 11:45 -0800, KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
> Perhaps as early as the very late 1980's, certainly by the early 90's, a
> company had a gimmick, a small 11m receiver, about 2/3 the size of a pack of
> smokes, watertight, blue anodized aluminum case, on-off switch, volume
> control and earphone.  The case had a stainless steel belt clip and the top
> was white or gray plastic with a water-tight seal.  The item was intended to
> be a receiver for swimmers, the coach, pool-side, could talk to the swimmers
> one-way.  I don't recall the exact frequency of the system, 27.xxx, most
> likely different frequencies were available.
> 
> All Electronics on Vermont Ave, in Los Angeles sold bits and pieces of this
> system sometime around 1992-1994.  I had purchased one receiver with the
> intent or purchasing more, scrapped the unit I had, never bought others.
> 
> What I'm looking for:  Name of the product, the maufacturer, photos or ads
> if available, with a little luck some of the actual product in hand and
> ultimately, if possible, a complete system!
> 
> By any chance does one of you have some old All Electronics catalogs from
> the 92-94 time frame with an ad for these units?
> 
> Let me know what you have in part, whole, info, if for sale, asking price
> for any portion.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kurt
> 
> 
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