[Milsurplus] Old Phart Needed!!!
Richard Arland, W3OSS
richard.arland at verizon.net
Tue Mar 13 11:40:04 EST 2007
I recently procured a RT-209/PRC-21 hi band VHF FM portable military radio.
This was basically a repackaged Motorola FHTR-3B which can be considered a
2nd generation Motorola portable or "Dragie-Talkie".
The Motorola FHTR-3B was my first 2M portable. It was converted for 2M FM by
a Spokane City detective (who was also a ham) and I bought it from him. As I
remember, the conversion consisted of padding 12 coils with some small
ceramic of SM caps and retuning the TX/RX strips.
Do any of you "Old Pharts" have any experience converting either the PRC-21
or the Motorola FHTR-3B from hi-band commercial freqs to 2M FM? It entails
dropping the operating freq about 6 MHz from the low end of 152 MHz.
Please contact me off list.
Thanks.
Vy 73,
Rich Arland, W3OSS
"Cogito, Ergo CQ"
("I think, therefore I Ham")
(with apologies to René Descartes, 1596-1650)
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