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Motorola "Weather Alert Radio" Model #N1262AN Info

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A ham radio friend of mine gave me an older Motorola "Weather Alert Radio" Model #N1262AN that he just came upon. I promptly brought it home and plugged it in and it worked however it was set for 162.550 which is the Miami transmitter. I opened it up and found a 3 position switch on the bottom of the board and when I moved it to the middle position it started receiving 162.475 which is for my area of West Palm Beach. However I find nothing about this radio on here as well as Battlabs, Repeater-Builder, Ebay or Google so does anyone have any info or better yet any paperwork!!!! I've included some pics as well.
 

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Interesting! That's a cool little radio.
 

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I have a large box of these. Our county issued them to residents via a nucular plant project. I was never able to find any real info out there but the case is the same shell as the Minitor I pager. I actually have a fw of them with the tan case that was used for the pagers.
 

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All I can tell you about it is that it was manufactured in the mid 70's, and I believe Regency made it. Didn't see many of them while at mother M.You can try looking up the FCC type acceptance number if it has one. Back then the FCC type accepted both RX and TX. I believe it alerted on the 1050 tone put out before announcements. it appears to use the same plastic as the Minitor I pager audio amp charger
 

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Thank you everyone so far. Great info. Yeah when my buddy said he had a Motorola Weather Radio I said I must have it. I have lots of Motorola Gear (just look at my QRZ.com page under N4SYR) but to acquire a weather radio with the Motorola name on it is a prize!!!! I've also seen on ebay an older CB Radio with the Motorola name on it but the guy wanted $200 for it. It looked nice but wasn't spending that much on a CB. Tomorrow at 11am is the weekly test so we'll see what she does!!!! Also for kb2ztx I see your from CNY. I'm originally from Syracuse (hence my callsign N4SYR). Moved to south florida in 2007.
 

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Pretty cool indeed! I'm guessing that the wide FM sounds great on that thing.
I'd rock one for sure.
 

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I want to rock it except I have a weather alert radio in the man cave & the bedroom. The wife won't let me put it anywhere else. Also someone clipped the grounding plug on the electrical plug that goes into the wall. My buddy said it shouldn't be an issue because the case is plastic not metal but I'm still a little leary having it plugged in when I'm not home. I gotta figure something out cause it's awesome and fully works!!!!!! Be a shame to not use it especially seeing as it's a Motorola.
 
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