I had 1 of those a few years ago, I honestly am not sure that it does have
Tone capability like you're looking for, it might but I don't think it did.
The battery is very easy to rebuild though, it's standard AA cells that you
can buy anywhere, in fact when I had mine I built the battery pack in that
one because I didn't get one.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:28 AM
Subject: Anyone know anything about this radio?
> Hi y'all,
>
> This should present an interesting problem to someone :)
>
> I just purchased (for $45 inclusive of shipping) a Santec ST-144
> handheld...complete with manual, rubber duckie, two speaker/mics,
> headset, drop-in charger, DC charger, DC adapter (so you can run it
> from your car, one presumes), leather case, the NiCD battery (which
> doesn't hold a charge--but those are cheap or can be rebuilt)...and
> the original boxes...though why I care about the boxes is a mystery.
> Anyway, quite the deal. I almost bought one of these (except with
> only the radio and a wall charger, no manual) way back when I was
> only licensed a couple years and getting my first HT...but I didn't
> buy it after all.
>
> Here's what I remember about the radio:
>
> It's a big brick radio. Yeah, about that size and shape. The battery
> pack is internal, i.e. inside the actual radio, so you can't easily
> just swap it out when it dies and keep yakking. It was old enough
> that it had a number of switches on the front, one of which set your
> offset, but new enough that it had direct frequency entry from the
> keypad. One thing that I thought was very cool at the time was that
> it had three power levels, which I later found out were 250 mw, 1.5w,
> and 3.5w. And there, my knowledge ends. I'm presuming this rig is an
> early-to-early-mid-'80's vintage, but that's only supposition.
>
> What I really want to know, though, is...did it have PL tones (encode
> if not decode) standard, or were they an optional feature? I know it
> did have the capability. At least, I assume that that's what the
> extra click on the squelch knob was for!
>
> So why'd I buy the thing? My excuse is that it's meant to go to my
> nephew, who's expressed an interest in ham radio. Whether it will get
> there or whether I'll actually just keep it instead--who knows?
>
>
>
>
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