can it be used on echo link as well? am curiouss
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From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 12:28 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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