[MRCA] GE Portamobil

[Mike Morrow]

Ray wrote:

> ...an old General Electric Porta Mobile VHF transceiver with the
> battery pack and microphone. ... It’s currently on 143.9/148.10 ...

That's the old obsolete standard Civil Air Patrol repeater frequency pair.  Pairs like 148.125/143.550 seem to be commonly used now.  After 9/11/01, CAP and MARS frequencies started being treated like Top Secret SIOP-ESI information due (I guess) to the very vital highly-classified traffic carried on their networks, not to mention the self-importance that guarding FOUO information gives to the privileged possessor! :-)  When I was in MARS and CAP in the 1960s and 1970s, we'd pass out mimeographed sheets with net times and frequencies to encourage listening and to recruit members...even when it was popular entertainment for some left-coast types to interfere with phone patch traffic for Vietnam-theater servicemen.

That Marine Band AM set sounds interesting.  I've collected several of that type since they started showing up at hamfests 45 years ago.  I like the sets that have an AM broadcast band receiver built in.

Mike / KK5F