[Motorola] Original Handie Talkie

Russ Tobolic erusst at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 14 12:57:11 EDT 2023


Hello,
I am brand new to this group.  I have an original Motorola low band handie-talkie FHTR1DH, I acquired back around 1968 when I was still in college.  At the time I had new xtals made for 52.525MHz from International Crystal (SK).  I operated it for a time until the batteries discharged.  It has been sitting in a box or on a shelf for the last 55 years and I all of a sudden got a bug to get it running again after reading W0RW's article in CQ Magazine recently and Paul graciously let me borrow the manual for it.
After a number of moves around various states since college and the Air Force, I have lost the antenna for the HT.  I checked all my junk piles and it is nowhere to be found.  According to the manual, the part no. is P-8563 and the loading coil is "pre-tuned and sealed at the factory to the exact operation frequency".  Does anyone out there happen to have one of these antennas or the loading coils, or know where I could get one before I start on an adventure of home brewing a new one?  Never mind the fact that I'm going to need to build new battery packs with with 20+ 9volt batteries.
I would greatly appreciate any help.
Thank you, 73Russ, N3CO


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