[Yaesu] Motorola bids for 80% of Vertex Standard

[Peter Markavage]

And they made great car reverbs back in the "old days".

And, the Metrum 2 meter unit had a strong resemblance to the imported
Lafayette HA-146 2 meter transceiver.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 16:34:32 -0800 (PST) Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Motorola has actually been in the direct amateur radio
> business twice before.  The first was in the late
> 1940s and early 1950s when they made a 10 meter mobile
> AM station.  Both the transmitter and receiver were
> crystal controlled and in separate cabinets (i.e. the
> old "twin coffin" design but smaller cabinets than the
> FM two-way equipment).
> 
> The next time was in the late 1960s and early 1970s
> when they marketed their VHF marine transceiver as the
> Metrum 2-meter unit.
> 
> Of course they also built quite a number of Collins
> designed R-390 series receivers for the military.
> 
> Glen, K9STH