Low Band HT220, did any ever exist

[WB6NVH]

This is a question for the older ones among us!

Over the years I had always been of the impression that the HT220 was only made in Mid, High and UHF models, and not low band.

The other day I happened to be looking in the master index of instruction manuals and there was a book listed for a low band HT220. I have had dozens of HT220's and worked on many more than that over the years, but I never saw a low band model and I don't recall the salesman ever having any advertising sheets on such a model. The closest I have ever had is a 77 MHz mid-band model.

I am wondering if anyone has or ever saw a 30-50 MHz series HT220, as I was thinking that perhaps they never actually put it into production. I had always been under the impression that the low band HT-s went from HT200 to MT500 in low band, skipping the HT220.

[Bill_G]

I never saw a low band FFN.

[abbylind]

Ditto Never saw a low band HT220 Saw some MH10s Handicoms and PT series in lowband

[mike m]

During The Phoenix south Mountain swap meet in the early 1980's I was rummaging thru a box of old radios looking for code keys and other CW items when I came out with a HT220 that saw better days, the thing that interested me was the long antenna on it.

Upon opening the back battery plate the owner and I saw that it was on 29.6 and 29.5 MHz, another ham pulled out the guys asking price and walked away with the HT.

This was the only HT220 I ever saw in low band but lots of Mt500's were purchased after this one in both the 29 and 50 MHz splits by myself.

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Apparently Motorola made a VHF "DVP" HT-220 at one time. I found a service manual for just such a radio. Where the PL board would go, a small PC board with gold flat pack IC's was installed. There was a CVSD chip, some discrete logic and three or four BCD rotary switches under a door. It was designed for some sort of multicast system according to the crystal strapping diagram. Common TX and switchable RX freqs. This was about 1979 ish. The lab that developed these sort of things actually had a vault door.

[com501]

Apparently Motorola made a VHF "DVP" HT-220 at one time. I found a service manual for just such a radio. Where the PL board would go, a small PC board with gold flat pack IC's was installed. There was a CVSD chip, some discrete logic and three or four BCD rotary switches under a door. It was designed for some sort of multicast system according to the crystal strapping diagram. Common TX and switchable RX freqs. This was about 1979 ish. The lab that developed these sort of things actually had a vault door.

Not that your post has anything to do with the OP, but those HTs were made for the FBI.

As far as the OP, yes, I had one at one point, in high split, after I got rid of my HT-200. It didn't work much better, it was just a tad smaller. It's a good thing the State of California Parks system had lowband repeaters is all I can say....