[Motorola] Awful Radios

[n_griggs at bellsouth.net]

Does anyone remember or want to admit they worked with radios made by Pace??!!  I worked at a two-way shop in the early 80's and they bought some VHF high band and UHF radios from Pace.  These used the Motorola MC145151 PLL.  The way they were programmed was using a diode matrix that had about 20 wires coming out of it.  You cut the wire for the pin you wanted high.  These would also do full duplex by cutting a couple of jumpers.  The problem with the radios was a poorly designed VCO!!  The thing was SO microphonic you could just touch the top of the radio and the frequency would drift!!  Pace suggested filling the coils with wax which didn't help - especially if the radio was in a vehicle in the hot sun!  Output power was about 25 to 50 watts depending on which radio you had.  Would be great for 2m or 70cm use if the VCO hadn't had so many problems.  

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> From: "Coote, Jay" <jcoote at ci.arcadia.ca.us>
> Date: 2006/11/08 Wed AM 11:08:08 EST
> To: <motorola at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [Motorola] Awful Radios
> 
> I worked for an entity that used Aerotron (I forget the model) UHF
> mobile radios.  These were the tan and brown dash mount radios with an
> internal speaker and push switches for four channels.  These radios
> failed daily.  The non-technical martinet who made the descision to
> purchase left the technicians "holding the bag" and getting all the
> blame for his flakey Aerotrons.  What I remember most were the CTCSS
> decoders making an irrititing click in the tinny sounding speakers...
> can't imagine being in a vehicle with that going on for the entire shift
> and keeping my sanity.
> 
> If this is a gripe list, I'm also less than amused with Kenwood
> DOS-based programming software.  My thoughts are if you still make DOS
> software in this day and age then provide a computer it will work on,
> and show respect for your large English-speaking customer base by having
> someone proficient in that language check your software before releasing
> it.  End rant.  
> 
> 
> 
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