[Motorola] Original Handie Talkie

geoff at wb6nvh.com geoff at wb6nvh.com
Mon Aug 14 13:57:38 EDT 2023



The FHTR low band antenna went NLA around 1959. It was not the same as 
the one for the Dispatcher style later pack sets, those had a more 
versatile antenna that was tunable.  Those are also unobtainium.  I 
suggest that a 1/4 wave at 52.525 is pretty short and you could just 
make a full-length whip and solder it into a PL-259.

I have been wondering about using those little eBay Chinese buck 
converters that take voltages of around 6-12 Volts and step them up to 
67.5, 134 or whatever.  They are really cheap and efficient.  However, 
they are RF noisy on the lower frequencies. I wonder how noisy they are 
at 52 MHz.

Geoff

WB6NVH

Monterey CA

On 2023-08-14 09:57, Russ Tobolic via Motorola wrote:

> 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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