[Wswss] RE: [VHF] Re: Tempo Commercial Line 220 FM Transceiver Manual Needed

[Jim Garver]

Well now, it's true my memory of these rock rigs is vague, so just guessing.
Look inside, if the single circuit board is pale yellow and single-sided,
looking like an old Heathkit, then it may be a Midland 13-509.  I never had
a Tempo CL220, the QST review is May 1973, all I can find about it.

I had about a dozen of the Midlands and their ilk, with various faces.  They
were all kinda deaf on simplex use, but probably just needed a better
transistor in the front end.  Some came with a HamTronics preamp installed
inside, which helped.
The Drake unit, well I had several UV-3's and it was not that one, of
course.  Maybe another brand.  It was black & silver, more black than the
Cobra 200 which I also had at one time.
While researching this a little I discovered that Sears sold Yaesu 2 meter
FM rock rigs back in the '70's.

BTW, an excellent 220 FM rig is: Yaesu FT-127RA Memorizer

Henry Radio imported all kinds of stuff back then and put their Tempo name
on it. The popular Tempo One was really a Yaesu FT-200.  So what else was
the Tempo CL-220 called?

All these old radios have been conspired against by repeater organizations
that insist on PL.  Most of the Oregon 222 repeaters do not have tone
access.  My favorite is 224.94 Mhz which is an old VHF Engineering rack
mount up at the Channel 2 transmitter site, Portland. It has been faithfully
kerchunking since 1972, Oregon's first 220 FM repeater.
73,
K7YO

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Boone [mailto:Cboone at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:26 AM
To: n6ze at aol.com; k7yo at centurytel.net; PNWVHFS at googlegroups.com;
wswss at mailman.qth.net; vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu
Subject: RE: [VHF] Re: Tempo Commercial Line 220 FM Transceiver Manual
Needed

The Tempo 220 is NOT a Midland 13-509 clone..Nor did Drake make a 220 rig as
far as I recall...

The Unide clones (made for Class E CB which thankfully never came about)
were the Midland 13-509, the Cobra 200 and the Clegg FM-76. All three have
been used in making rptrs.

The CL220 uses different xtals, has the front end preamp in its own separate
enclosure and works ok...but is hard to separate for rptr use and in my
opinion, was not worth the effort.

The Uniden models all usually hear about 0.2 or so...no preamp needed...not
sure where you got your info, Jim, but a lot of it stated below is simply
incorrect.

Pete, I have a CL220 in storage that needs some work on it......but alas,
don't have the manual for it...

Chris
WB5ITT

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu [mailto:owner-vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu] On
Behalf Of n6ze at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:33 PM
To: k7yo at centurytel.net; PNWVHFS at googlegroups.com; wswss at mailman.qth.net;
vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu
Subject: [VHF] Re: Tempo Commercial Line 220 FM Transceiver Manual Needed

Will look closely at Midland 13-509 manual.

The front panel on my Tempo has 4 pin mic conn. on lower left; 'on'/'off'
toggle switch & 'hi'/'low' power toggle sw on upper left of panel; middle
section of panel has rotary xtal switch and just?to the right, a meter;
upper right panel area has 'hi'/'low' light slide sw & 'freq'/'signal' slide
sw; right side of panel has 'squelch' pot on upper right area & a 'volume'
pot on lower right.

The rig currently runs a few watts out into poorly matched vertical.

bt73Pete, N6ZE


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Garver <k7yo at centurytel.net>
To: n6ze at aol.com; PNWVHFS at googlegroups.com; wswss at mailman.qth.net;
vhf at w6yx.stanford.edu
Sent: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 4:29 am
Subject: [PNWVHFS] Re: Tempo Commercial Line 220 FM Transceiver Manual
Needed




I would bet money that inside it's a Midland 13-509 for which you should at
least be able to find a schematic.

The 220 Drake, ?Cobra, others all the same inside.

Nice radios but need a preamp.

K7YO

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Does anyone have a PDF of the manual for this old rig? It is an old 12
channel 'rock bound' FM rig.

I hope to use it for the January VHF SS.

bt73Pete, N6ZE