New Toy From Local Hamfest...

Just picked up a mint condition Motorola Spectra VHF-HI police/business band radio for the truck. It is trunk mounted with a cool control head to mount on the dash. It even has the classic motorola microphone too. I cant wait to get it reprogramed for the 2 meter ham band. They say these sound great on the air. This radio is not narrow-band capable, so it is basically useless now for anything but the 2m ham band, since we can keep our old channel spacing. This means there will be a flood of basically useless radios on the market for hams.

 

It has programmable PL tones for sure. Im looking into what I can do with it. I hope there is a way to enter all the standard repeater splits, then be able to change PL tones as needed. Not sure what i can do yet. It might not be as capable as my FT-7900R in that regard. If so, I will make a base station out of it LOL

 

Im hoping it has the ability to assign any pl tone to any of the programmed channels via the control head. It looks like it has 128 memories. I have a Motorola shop nearby that will check it out for me.

 

Im waiting for some creeper-cop to give me a hard time when he sees the Motorola "police" microphone... LOL