[Motorola] Was Encoder, Now MICOR and Channel Elements....

Fri Jan 2 11:11:19 EST 2009

Those Torx security screws are no problem, go buy a bit kit from any tool dealer, done...

I bought a set of security bits years ago from a company that i used to get a catalog from, don't recall the name now, but it cost me maybe $20 for a set.

73,

Scott

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Johnjewkes at aol.com 
  To: motorola at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 10:33 PM
  Subject: Re: [Motorola] Was Encoder, Now MICOR and Channel Elements....

  Howdy Dan,
      We in MARS can use pretty much any piece of Ham or commercial 
  gear that will tune into the bands. I know what you mean about money 
  pit, had a Micor working as a repeater for 10 years. About every 4 months, 
  there was always some part that failed and took it down for a few days at a time. 
       I can even build a Ramsey kit if need be. Now in 2013 when MARS exemption 
  to NTIA Federal Frequencies bandwidth reqs (See the red book of NTIA for details),
  we will have to have equipment that can do the 12.5 instead of 25 KHz step and 
  3.5 instead of 5 KHz width on VHF. 
      Some of the new Yaesu and Kenwood rigs will do the narrow splits and transmission, BUT
  have gone back to having to do a hardware modification to do MARS/CAP operations. And 
  many also have added those Torx security screws to the cases so you can't just 'open them up'
  and they charge about $250 to do the mod for you... 
      I used to really love building repeaters from GE MASTR II's But those are rare finds these days...
  73 John W6HNC/AAR0MI OR

  In a message dated 1/1/2009 6:16:51 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, k0dan at comcast.net writes:
    MICORs were great radios in their day, but whatever treasure trove you have just might be an achor around your neck! If you're rebuilding one for the thrill of it, that's cool but if you want to do a whole fleet of them, I think you're putting a LOT of resources into a money pit. You might almost do better cannabilizing the RF amps out of the MICORs, recycle the rest of the hardware, buying modern low power exciters, and ending up with modern high power radios. Just my $0.02. Oh yeah, not sure if MARS rges let you do all that, but that'd be a fun ham club project.
    73
    k0dan
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Johnjewkes at aol.com 
      To: motorola at mailman.qth.net 
      Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 7:59 PM
      Subject: [Motorola] Was Encoder, Now MICOR and Channel Elements....

      Sad but true, one of the MARS members in Ohio confirmed CEH is gone, having sold all their components to ICM, due to cost of stuff.... Oh Well... But now i have info... and no I guess reading up on these military monster Micors they are actually 30 channels and do a simplex or duplex switching to do '60' channels. (IE 1 is duplexed (one tx, one rx frequency) Channel two is simplexed (TX/RX on same frequency from channel 1). I am not sure how they would do this one either, since the frequency conversion for TX and RX is different looking at the math, I don't quite get it...

      Big heavy drawer units, about twice the size of commercial micors I have had in the past, the receivers are 142-153 MHz already, and most had first frequency of 148.650 currently in the MARS pool, formerly in the USAF pool. None have the heads, but all have the cables, power cords and are ALL 100 Watt units. Mounting instructions deal with mounting them inside of mobile comm shelters. No mention of operating in jeeps, cars etc... Wondering if I could use a controller, one radio for transmitter the other for receiver since I always seem to have problems once I add hot power to both TX/RX during conversion.... 

      TNX though... I guess I will get them from ICM/BoMar...anyone have their contact info???
      73 de John W6HNC/AAR0MI OR

      In a message dated 1/1/2009 5:14:02 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, kuggie at kuggie.com writes:
        Geoff Fors wrote:
        >  I meant to say channel element banks, not rebuilders.

        Then I would have to agree, as I believe all of the places like "Channel 
        Element Headquarters" are no longer in business.

        Kevin
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