[Motorola] Original Handie Talkie

[Russ Tobolic]

 Thanks for the reply and the suggestion for the power supply Geoff.  I knew that antenna was long gone but I thought I'd give a try to find one.  A 1/4 wave at that freq is around 54" which is not very practical to carry it around.  I think the original was around 43", and that extra 11' makes a difference.  I've got a few old CB whips around so I'll try a shorter one with a loading coil.  I actually used one of those cheap boost converters to go from 12v to 30v to fix an old Icom IC-228 which needed an internal 30v source.   There isn't any discernible noise on 2M so I may look into some of those.
Russ, N3CO
    On Monday, August 14, 2023 at 01:57:39 PM EDT, geoff at wb6nvh.com <geoff at wb6nvh.com> wrote:  
 
 
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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