Maratrac Control head?

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dfc2
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Maratrac Control head?

Post by dfc2 »

I picked up something at a State auction the other day! It appears to be a standard 99 Ch Maratrac control head, houever, it has a squelch knob on it, the knob looks like a MX300 series knob, but it has the correct label and everything on it. Is this normal? I don't recall seeing one before.

any healp?

Thanks.

DFC2
Mike B
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Post by Mike B »

Take a look at the MaraTrac Batlabs page (at the bottom of the General Information section):
http://www.batlabs.com/maratrac.html

If the radio has an internal HLN5342ESP01 option board, then it can use the external squelch control knob on the control head. I think these option boards are usually only found in the low band radios (below 50 MHz).
dfc2
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Maratrac with SQ knob.

Post by dfc2 »

I don't have the radio itself. Just the conotrol head and cabling. The state seems to have no idea what it's doing when it sets up it's auctions. The pallet I got has some stuff on it and the pallet next to it has the other half of some of the radios. and No..the guy would not trade any of it. They seem to just stack things that look alike n each pallet...so one full of control heads, and the like, the other full of radios and similar stuff..... Oh well...just bring more money next auction...

Thanks for the help...
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n1pfc
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Post by n1pfc »

Mike B wrote:Take a look at the MaraTrac Batlabs page (at the bottom of the General Information section):
http://www.batlabs.com/maratrac.html

If the radio has an internal HLN5342ESP01 option board, then it can use the external squelch control knob on the control head. I think these option boards are usually only found in the low band radios (below 50 MHz).
Correct, 50MHz and below. Thing is, the internal squelch adjustment on the radio still affects the squelch as well as the knob on the control head.

Kurt
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jistabout
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Post by jistabout »

Hi, I'm looking for a Maratrac 99ch. control head + cables.
Would you like to sell/trade? Thanks.....

- Darrell
Aww screw it. I didn't wanna fool with it anymore anyhow.
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