Motorola Hard Hat antenna?

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Item Number.  RDE4454A      
          ANT HARD HAT 400 MHZ
Unit of Measure: 1 EA    
Est. ship date     Available        List price          Your price        Quantity          Extended price 
24 Jul 2007         N                 112.00             112.00                                  112.00 
 
 

What is this?

[emsbuff3240]

LOL

They must have got their idea from the tower hat guys at dayton.

[Bruce1807]

used to put them on locomotives

[transistor747]

Actually, back in the day, /\/\ used to sell a steel hard hat with a mobile whip installed on the top.
This was (apparently) for an external antenna for portables, pagers, etc.
I remember seeing a picture of one years ago, but never saw the item itself.
It was weird!
(but then again, so was Tellario)

[High_order1]

no thank you. With the way I bump my head into things, I can imagine what would happen when I stuck my head in a relay cabinet or a 480v locker.... zzzt


lol


_Shawn

[Wicho]

Actually, back in the day, /\/\ used to sell a steel hard hat with a mobile whip installed on the top.

How'd they make the low-band version stay on your head?

[transistor747]

How'd they make the low-band version stay on your head?

Actually, back in the day, /\/\ used to sell a steel hard hat with a mobile whip installed on the top.

How'd they make the low-band version stay on your head?

Staples

[Bruce1807]

actually they used to make an antenna that looks like a hard hat.
Hence the name. It could be that

[techie]

Actually, back in the day, /\/\ used to sell a steel hard hat with a mobile whip installed on the top.
This was (apparently) for an external antenna for portables, pagers, etc.
I remember seeing a picture of one years ago, but never saw the item itself.
It was weird!
(but then again, so was Tellario)

I've got a catalog page showing the helmet antenna. (accessories catalog, ~1980)
NAD-6050A Helmet antenna for pocket receiver 144-174Mhz w/phone plug. Helmet not supplied by Motorola.

They also made leg antennas for pocket receivers, both loband and hiband vhf.