[BC] Early mobile phones

[Gary Glaenzer]

I got in on the last of the tube mobiles (but had tons of C53GGB3100 bases), Motracs were
still in use for Law Enforcement (remember the 'stretch to eternity' dual-front end
low-banders?) loved Mocom 70's, ambivalent toward Maxars, hated Micors and their crappy
internal connectors (but became a regional expert on the Mobile Repeater EMS stuff and a
whiz at spreading out 'the bedsheet' and figuring out Sys-90 configurations), left as the
Mitrek and the beginnings of synthesized units came on-line

later sold Standard, always thought they had an excellent product, especially the
steel-bodied 25 watt under-dash units and their portables which were better than MT-500's

never had much to do with the MX-3XX line, some say they were OK, some hated them

I installed a TON of Motorola in late 78-thru 79, as the Law Enforcement Assistance
Administration literally threw gobs of money at local Sheriff's Depts and we installed
low-band 330-watt bases and new Micors with VHF vehicular repeaters in Green, Jersey,
Calhoun, Macoupin, Montgomery counties in IL, plus City of Jacksonville and Morgan
County..........J-ville (UHF) and Morgan (VHF) used Sprectra-Tac voting systems and
exclusively portables..no mobiles.all MT-500's, dual repeaters, back-up power, the whole 9
yards


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Ronald J. Dot'o Sr. <ron.doto at comcast.net>>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [BC] Early mobile phones


> C'mon guys, the MSS life wasn't that bad!  I started on the Motracs
> and then the Twin V's, T-Powers and the always popular FMTR 80D's.  I
> just missed the old tube coffin units.
>
> Ron D
>
>
> >---- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin C. Kidd, CSRE/AMD" <kkidd at kkbc.com>
> >Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 7:16 PM
> >Subject: Re: [BC] Early mobile phones
> >
> >
> >>Oh Gary,
> >>
> >>Please stop.  I escaped from a MSS in 1994 and have tried to forget all
> >>that crap.
>
>
>
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