[Milsurplus] Moto FM in GI clothing

[Glen Zook]

I was at Georgia Tech from September 1962 until I graduated in March 1967.  Worked for Atlanta Communications which was just a couple of blocks from campus for a year and then directly for Motorola my senior year.  Then I owned the Motorola reconditioned equipment center for the south-central United States from 1970 until 1979 when Motorola went out of that "end" of the business (company was located in Plano, Texas, a Dallas suburb).

The government did utilize a lot of the civilian Motorola FM equipment, some of it was "repackaged" and some of it wasn't.  During the period I owned the Motorola reconditioned equipment center we did ship quite a number of reconditioned equipment to the military.  This was the "height" of Viet Nam and the U.S. Government definitely did purchase reconditioned equipment.  Now I have no idea as to just what unit(s) got the equipment but we definitely shipped it to various depots around the country.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Marty Reynolds <cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org> wrote:

From: Marty Reynolds <cosmoline at aa4rm.ba-watch.org>
 
Well I'm a ramblin' wreck too.  Class 1970 Nuc Engr
 
Great story about use in rr diesels
 
Only once did I do a cab ride in Canada.  Cooler there & it was in a 'streamliner' on it's last legs... a GM "E unit."
 
Was so enthralled with the 200 mi.s spent up there I never looked for a radio
 
BUT

Very interesting that gummint maybe just boosted the entire Moto package that for it's time was such a tough & modular package. M Tauson came in there & that leads to earlier gummint 'modularity/voltage-source' efforts
 
- RT70 w. AM65 that used plug-in 6, 12, 24v vibrapacke
 
- SCR 500 with 12V or 24V dyno sets... & neat how there was a  BC604 'view window' to see which dyno was there
 
- 12 & 24v BC191 & BC 224 vs BC375 & BC348
 
- arc5 28v q5-er vs arc5X 12v equiv. (a stretch)
 
- 12 or 24v ARC-x / arc-4s

- others?