Yep I had seen this one around too.  Mike I guess we're dating ourselves.



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>>> Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]> 02/19/02 02:55PM >>>
I knew a guy who used a radio like that Motorola.  It used tubes, had a
ni-cad battery and a multivibrator transistor power supply.  Two channels.
I saw a similar radio of even earlier vintage with a vibrator power
supply.

Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
Amateur Radio: < K 7 U I J >

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Bob Tinney wrote:

> I'll never forget the first two meter handheld rig I ever owned.  It was an
> old Motorola single channel pencil tube rig that you carried over the
> shoulder and weighed about 8 pounds.  You could receive for about 2 hours,
> if I remember right, and you could transmit for just a few minutes.  I think
> it ran 1 watt.  I guess I'm showing my age!  HI HI
>
> Bob Tinney, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>