(/\/\)otorola VHF-Air Base Station

[Batman]

Did Motorola ever make a VHF AM Air Band base transceiver? I'm thinking Motrac era and it was a rack mount unit.

I thought I remembered seeing one many, many years ago.

any pic's or model number of units that your aware of.

also did motorola ever make any AM Mobile/Base(other than the Micom) setups in the 26/27MHz Range?

this is more of a curiosity

[jhooten]

also did motorola ever make any AM Mobile/Base(other than the Micom) setups in the 26/27MHz Range?

The Mocat series of CB radios.

Pics here:
http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/usedc ... orola.html

[kc7gr]

The Government Electronics Group of Motorola made at least one that I know of. It was indeed a big rackmount unit, I think about 8U or so, that was built to military specs and covered the military aircraft band (225-399.9MHz).

I used to have one. Fascinating box... Don't remember what I did with it now. I think I might have sold it at the Foothill electronics swap meet a couple of years prior to leaving the Bay Area.

As to civil-band stuff -- No idea. Anything's possible. Motorola had their hands in a lot of different fields before Ed 'Chainsaw' Zander and his pet bean-counters took over (though, in all fairness, the decay was starting to spread before he showed up).

If they did make anything in that area, I suspect it would have been on contract for the FAA and intended for installation in ATC centers or airport control towers.

Keep the peace(es).

[Hartley]

Hi,

Motorola made the URC-100 series for the government - several different models, basically a power supply and chassis (with interface plugs, etc.) for a military aircraft type radio. Some are UHF only (225-400) others cover VHF as well. Some also cover up to about 150 mHz FM mode.
I think the later versions are still in service - I ran into a couple on the Yuma test range a few years ago, in service as cross-band repeaters.

73 DE Hartley

[N9LLO]

Not on the original topic, but I have nice 1953 Motorola built R390 HF reciever. Motorola was one of many vendors to build the Collins designed rig during its lifetime.


Chris
N9LLO

[transistor747]

I have seen a Motorola labelled VHF airband base station recently, rack mount, modern design. It was apparently built by the government electronics group. I believer there was another model that was higher in range than VHF, but not sure exactly what range.
We recently got a RFQ for one of them, specifying the Motorola model # exactly. The customer was shocked to find that Motorola was out of that business.