[Motorola] Maratrac clamshell head and cable

[Jeff]

Here is something that I have found with the Maratrac heads and cables. 
Make sure the pins are CLEAN!  I bought a skid load of lo band radios from 
the sewer dept.  All the connectors, male and female needed cleaning.  Also 
make sure they are screwed on all the way.  The radios act very funny when 
all the cable contacts are not being made.  So still I ask, whats in a 
Maratrac 8 channel head?  Is it just a pot for volume and some switches for 
channel selection? Or are there electronics in the basic head?
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Funny you mentioned
I'm going thru all my stuff and I have a couple maratracs, I need to see if 
I have an extra clam shell head and cable for you

On another note, I have been trying to real several of those radios and they 
all come up with a serial busy error (error #2) and I can't read the radios
I have the radios hooked up to the big control head that has the "88" 
display, the one without the squelch knob,, should I try hooking them up a 
different way? Or maybe is my programming cable bad?
Most of the ones I have are UHF/VHF and maybe 1 or 2 6 Meter's

Could the problem be they have been programmed to operate with the clam 
shell control head? Some radios will display on the control head that its on 
CH1, and some won't show anything but sound a beep when I press buttons on 
the head



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Sent: Apr 6, 2010 13:04

Is there anywhere on the internet that I can find the schematic for the 
Maratrac 8 channel head and cable?  This would be the very basic head and 
cable setup.  Could a Miterk head and cable be modified to work?  I have put 
several on 6 meters and I'm short one cable.   I only need 4 channels in my 
area, and for testing it would be great.  Thanks, Jeff, N9OFB
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