[Motorola] Expo charger reserection

Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:06:59 -0600

Replacement batteries should be available from Multiplier, Alexander, and JBro.

Terry

At 07:46 PM 12/12/2002 -0500, JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON wrote:
 >I don't know, I just happened to find the Expo on a pile of junk before my
 >PD moved to 800 MHz trunking, and the head tech had been told to find new
 >homes for all the old equipment a few months before, and the chief of
 >police let me have this Expo when from seeing the ID number I recognized
 >it  had being used by my grandfather.  It was his last mobile/portable radio
 >that he used from 1986 to 1993.  I can remember finding it when I was
 >nine, and his response was "I don't want you monkeying with that, its not
 >a toy."  I guess back then it cost his department about $1500  I played
 >with  it off and on over the years, but I was always in favor of him getting
 >a mobile in his car with more power, and an outside antenna like what he
 >had from 1971-85.  My intent when I found the Expo was to have it
 >converted to 2-meters, but I am having no luck with finding anyone who
 >knows anything about it, and I don't know where to find extra parts IE
 >batteries and chargers and adapters or anything like that myself.
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Wn4i wrote:
 >
 >> Hello Jeffrey
 >>
 >> I have a VHF and a UHF  EXPO  .....but no batteries ?  How much is a new
 >> battery ?
 >> Any way to replace the batteries inside an old one like I did on my MT 2000
 >> .
 >> I was a member of the EXPO Engineering team back in 1980--85 ...in
 >> Plantation Fla .
 >> regards
 >> Yves Wn4i
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> ----- Original Message -----
 >> From: "JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON" <[email protected]>
 >> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
 >> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 1:25 AM
 >> Subject: [Motorola] Expo charger reserection
 >>
 >>
 >> > Good morning all.  Well, the Expo charger is working again, and that was
 >> > after I moved it from one working outlet to another, and then letting it
 >> > go for a while.  It is warm now, and the light is on and the battery is
 >> > charging.  I don't know what it was, but other times when the 
battery  has
 >> > been dead I have been able to use it right after charging it, and tonight
 >> > that didn't happen, but now everything is seemingly back to normal.  I
 >> > guess the only explanation would be a short in the cord, but I don't 
know.
 >> >
 >> >
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