[Milsurplus] what's it for?

[Revcom]

Glenn,

You sure stirred up some memories when you mentioned MTLA 80D.
I remember installing -4- of those suckers in a bureau agents car way
back when.  2 high band and 2 low band. Gads, now days it would break
the suspension!

Rod
K0EQH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at arrl.net>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] what's it for?


> It looks like the dynamotor that was used in the 6 volt Motorola FMTR-140D 
> and FMRTU-140D.  The FMTR was for lowband (30 MHz to 50 MHz) and the FMTRU 
> was for highband (150.8 MHz to 174 MHz).  The 140D units were rated at 60 
> watts output.  The FMTR-80D and FMTRU-80D were rated at 30 watts output 
> and had a smaller dynamotor.  There were also 12 volt models of both 
> units.
>
> The 140D and 80D were from the mid 1950s.
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
>