[Motorola] Luggie Talkie

[Bill Morphy]

I was involved in a Rail-Trail project a few years ago, and I built a system 
in Forrest-Conservation. I had all used and donated equipment to work with.

I had a "Dispatcher" that I re-channeled and re-aligned to transmit on 
151.370 and receive on 159.225.  It did have a PL.  I wired inside 4 
different frequency PL reeds and a selector switch for PL transmit.

It was very much the same radio as the PT series  "Lunchbox" radios except 
the PA which I think was 10 watts for the Dispatcher and something like 2 
watts for the PT.  I think that it also had a beefed up audio PA to drive an 
external speaker.

Mine was an underdash version, but I think that I saw it in catalogs as a 
trunk mount or motorcycle tourpack mount radio.

Both radios use positive ground boards. The Dispatcher used a non conductive 
case and capacitively coupled antenna ground to provide the ground 
isolation.

BTW, I had several PTs that I also set up the same way.  I built a regulated 
AC powered, PS into the bottom battery compartment of the PTs and used them 
as control stations.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of equipment manufactured by Motorola" 
<motorola at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 12:00 PM
Subject: RE: [Motorola] Luggie Talkie


> The "AAC" radios generally did not have PL available
> (but some did).  However, the BAC versions definitely
> came from the factory with PL.  Those units used the
> small, rectangular reed that was about 1.5 inches
> long, 3/4 inch wide, and about 1/2 inch thick.
>
> Remember that the same radio was "repackaged" as the
> original "Dispatcher" and used quite often on
> motorcycles.
>
> If you wanted a portable radio that required a "little
> red wagon" to haul it you would have the 5 watt
> version with the "D" cell battery pack.  If I remember
> correctly the battery pack held 48 "D" cells.  We got
> a few of those as "trade-ins" when I owned the
> Motorola reconditioned equipment center for the
> south-central United States.  Of course they were not
> reconditioned by that time.  However, all of the
> trade-ins had to be returned to us and were either
> scrapped or sold to amateur radio operators.
>
> Glen, K9STH
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> --- dick jones <jonesrwj38 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Richard I agree that ICM would be the way to go. I
> have brought many of these radios down to the ham
> bands over the years and they generally do quite well.
> The BAC nomenclature tells me that you have an all
> transistor receiver and tube and transistor
> transmitter. You should be able to get near 2 watts
> out. If you find you need tubes I think I still have
> them for the transmitter & willing to let them go very
> cheap. With the AC supply it will make a great radio.
> If the repeater needs CTCSS to access then you have to
> find a way to ad am encoder. I do not ever remember
> seeing PL in any of those series radios.
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> Glen, K9STH
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> Website:  http://k9sth.com
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