[MRCA] Low Band FM

[Jack Antonio]

On 5/29/2020 10:15 AM, Ray Fantini wrote:
> LMRS Land Mobile Radio Services is Business band radio, some frequencies 
> are set aside strictly for government and public safety and others for 
> commercial use. Low band VHF (30 to 50 MHz) is the first and oldest 

I have an AN/PRC-97, which is a Motorola HT-200, on 34.2 MHz. A project
is to get it onto 29.6 one of these days.

Back in the 50s and 60s, Nevada Highway Patrol used 42.94 as one
of their primary frequencies, and quite a few of the smaller
communities used that frequency for their police or
sheriff departments as well. The CAP had some BC-1000s, which
some of us cadets "borrowed" and listened to the cops on.

Batteries for the BC-1000 you ask. Well, this was in Hawthorne,
Nevada, site of a Naval Ammunition Depot. The High School Electronics
lab had boxes full of outdated, Navy surplus batteries, with
taps from (IIRC) 45 to 135 V. They worked well enough, though.

We were told, that the batteries were used in mines, and the
voltage taps is what determined how long the mine stayed active,
but I don't know if that is an actual fact.

Had to give the BC-1000s back, but I did manage to snag a TBY.

However, the TBY and my model airplane collection did not
show up at the other end, when my parents moved.

Jack Antonio
WA7DIA