[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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