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
>