[Yaesu] Motorola bids for 80% of Vertex Standard

Mon Nov 5 20:21:21 EST 2007

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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