[MRCA] BC-611

[Jack Antonio]

I bought a UHF HT-220 kit from Spectronics around '72 or '73. But the
board wasn't broken. It was however a reject. The story I was told that
it was cheaper for Motorola to just build a new board from scratch,
rather that attempt to repair a reject. Spectronics made it clear
the radio was for amateur use only.

I do recall that after that, the big M discovered someone was selling 
repaired rejects back into commercial service, so they took steps to 
stop that.

Problem with mine was a cracked 1/8W resistor, but I had to remove half 
dozen other components to get to it. Radio worked great after that, used 
it for the next 20 years or so.

Jack Antonio
WA7DIA

On 10/5/2024 9:40 PM, Mike Feher wrote:
> That is interesting Tim that you worked for Motorola. I lived in Ft. 
> Wayne at the time and the HT-220 was every hams dream. There was a store 
> in Chicago whose name I believe was Spectronics or something like that. 
> They used to sell Motorola floor sweepings as well as complete boards 
> for the 220.