[Yaesu] Motorola bids for 80% of Vertex Standard

[John Geiger]

Correction, now here is ugly:

http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic7200.htm

73s John AA5JG

--- "James F. Boehner, MD" <jboehner at DueSouth.net>
wrote:

> Ughhhhh! It may perform well, but IMHO, Ugly!
> 
> I hope Motorola consults someone about making their
> displays a bit more 
> pleasing to the eye!  Maybe they will learn that
> from Yaesu.  I have several 
> Motorola radios, and their displays are certainly
> first generation!
> 
> '73 de Jim N2ZZ
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Geiger" <n5ten at yahoo.com>
> To: "Peter Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>;
> <yaesu at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 8:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [Yaesu] Motorola bids for 80% of Vertex
> Standard
> 
> 
> > And here is a Motorola HF rig from the late 1990s.
> > Looks nicer than anything the big 3 were putting
> out
> > at that time:
> >
> >
>
http://www.rigpix.com/mischam/motorola-mobat_micomh.htm
> >
> > 73s John AA5JG
> >
> > --- Peter Markavage <manualman at juno.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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
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