[BC] Early mobile phones

[Tom]

When I worked at channel 13 (WTHR), we upgraded the entire 2-way system; 
switched from Motorola to Standard.  Including adding a third and fourth 
repeater pair for mobile repeat use - News used the lower set 
(450.2125/455.2125 and 450.3125/455.3125); operations used the other set 
- 450.4125/455.4125 and 450/5125/455.5125 - including the microwave 
trucks for link setup and IFB use.  (the trucks could swap the MR 
setups, if necessary - using 5125 to relay news or 3125 for operations - 
but I don't think we ever had to.  Statute of limitations; we did 
occasionally use the MR and the handhelds on high power if we were in a 
difficult setup - like from the basement of a steel-frame building...)

The Standard handhelds would run for literally hours key-down with no 
problems; just to see what we had, we fed one into a dummy load and a 
spectrum analyzer with a pencil holding the PTT button (pressure applied 
by large rubber band).  IIRC, we got just over 8 hours continuous with 
no reduction in signal; after that, the battery was the limiting factor 
- the case was barely warm.

Tom S.

Gary Glaenzer wrote:

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> 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