Weirdo SYNTRX cellphone style HHCH

mr.syntrx · Post by **mr.syntrx** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:34 am

Look what I scored.

(The GP300 or whatever it is speaker mic is a seperate, irrelevant item, unless someone wants to buy it from me. Its cable is just stuck under the handset.)

Having never seen one of these, I figured it'd be a cool collectors' item, even if it never works on one of my radios.

Has anyone ever used one of these before, or does anyone know anything about it? I'm guessing it's from an ex SA Government radio - they've got LOTS of strange SP gear.

bellersley · Post by **bellersley** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:36 pm

There is a Maxtrac style radio that is Privacy Plus that has a hand set very similaw to that.. Might even be the same.

motorola_otaku · Post by **motorola_otaku** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:25 pm

bellersley wrote:There is a Maxtrac style radio that is Privacy Plus that has a hand set very similaw to that.. Might even be the same.

Except his plainly says "SYNTRX." Those are some truly bizarre radios, so all bets are off.

I know the radios you speak of.. they come from the Coverage Plus family, which was a sort-of predecessor to Smartzone and Nextel. Back before it became terrorism to do so, we had a couple programmed up on local PS trunking. It was quite amusing to tell people that your "cellphone" could listen to the police.

His, however, resembles a different variant that was built on, of all things, a Mitrek chassis. They were also EPROM programmed, versus the Maxtrac-style radios which could be programmed with RSS (albeit a particular version, and no, I don't know the part number).

mr.syntrx · Post by **mr.syntrx** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:24 pm

Yeah, the SYNTRX line are pretty bizzarre. Motorola Australia engineers in Melbourne basically had a free reign and did whatever they wanted with that radio.

The handset showed up today. Its part number is AMN6109A. It has a two-digit LED display like a normal Spectra-style Syntrx HHCH, with lights for Tx, Scn (scan) and Local (direct), and switches for the same, as well as Sql, monitor, and channel up/down.

It has an 8-pin connector on the cable from the handset to the cradle, and the cradle has a DB15 (which I'll have to figure out the pinout of, unless someone can snag it off MOL or something for weird crap like this.) The cradle has a volume pot on the side.

Bruce1807 · Post by **Bruce1807** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:48 pm

The Syntrx also one an Australian Design Award when it first came out.