[Motorola] PT300

[Richard Schumann]

Thanks Glen...sounds like you have just a LITTLE experience..hi.  I sure
like the quality of these rigs and this is just for fun.

Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook@yahoo.com>
To: <motorola@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Motorola] PT300


> Most of the older portables that I have ever worked on
> would make it down to 2 meters without any problem
> even those that were supposedly on the "high" split.
>
> I put in the first Motorola portable and paging repair
> facility away from the Chicago area plant (this was
> before the Florida operations) in the Forest Park,
> Georgia, Motorola C&E office in 1966.  This was during
> my senior year at Georgia Tech.  Also, I owned the
> Motorola reconditioned equipment center for the
> south-central U.S. from 1970 until Motorola went out
> of that end of the business in 1979.  As such, I have
> seen a "few" of the portables!  Also owned a two-way
> radio sales and service business until 1989 when I
> went into consulting.
>
> The most that I have ever seen that had to be done to
> a "high" split (and that was very rare) was to add 5
> pf capacitors across a couple of the lower frequency
> coils in the transmitter and the same with the
> receiver "front end".
>
> It is always "safe" to use high-side injection instead
> of the "normal" low-side injection on the receiver.
> This insures that the oscillator - multiplier "string"
> in the receiver is operating within the "normal"
> frequency range.
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
>
> --- Tom B <tbryan@nova.org> wrote:
>
> That depends on the split
>
> =====
> Glen, K9STH
>
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