I bought a 1968 model 20-1075 which was an auto radio tunaverter, and no one seems to remember these units. This particular model converted one's car radio signal from am to fm in the hi-band range 150 megahertz + range. One other manufacturer was tompkins tunaverters by Salch Co. from Texas. I might be the only one in the whole US that has one. It hooked up in-line to a car radio thru an antenna cable and converted the signal to fm. There were others that could pickup cb, air, low band , uhf and even ham bands. I'd give just about anything to anyone that has one for sale, knows how to fix them, or has a schematic. contact me at stevexo@verizon.net in Md.
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marksmith
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Used to have one. One button to activate FM and a tuning dial. They were the precursor to an FM radio in a car. Have not seen one in decades. Early 70's.
BCD536HP/HP2/996XT/PSR800/396XT/996T
BCD536HP/HP2/996XT/PSR800/396XT/996T
I still have and use a converter that tunes the FM broadcast band in my 1946 Jeep. had one back in the day that received the 150 MHz band. no schematics, though. sorry.
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As I recall, you had to tune your AM radio to a specific frequency, like 1400.
The current day wireless backward equivalent is the transmitter that you plug into your cigarette lighter and then plug any usb device into and then pick the open FM frequency to have your FM radio become the receiver. The old ones were in-line on the antenna cable I think.
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BCD536HP/HP1/HP2/BCD996XT/BCD396XT(2)/BCD996T/PSR-800 and others.
The current day wireless backward equivalent is the transmitter that you plug into your cigarette lighter and then plug any usb device into and then pick the open FM frequency to have your FM radio become the receiver. The old ones were in-line on the antenna cable I think.
Mark
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BCD536HP/HP1/HP2/BCD996XT/BCD396XT(2)/BCD996T/PSR-800 and others.
I had a converter. All you had to do was hold it close to an AM radio tuned to 530 kHz and I was able to receive police or fire on VHF. There were 1 and 2 channel models. The 2 channel models had a toggle switch to select between VHF frequencies.
I had a tunaverter 348x for low band vhf. Bought from Thompkins Radio Products in Refugio, TX. This had an add-on squelch box that fastened to the bottom of the main box. Squelch never did work too good, though. Had a good time with this for a long time when I was young and stupid. Now I'm just stupid.
Wasn't another popular one called a panther or some animal?
(this is the type you held against a portable broadcast receiver)
Edit: Little Tiger. That was the name of it. Made by... Electra (who was later purchased by some company called Uniden)
(this is the type you held against a portable broadcast receiver)
Edit: Little Tiger. That was the name of it. Made by... Electra (who was later purchased by some company called Uniden)
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Anyone know where I can buy one, that works or knows how to repair them HI BAND VHF Thanks Steve in Md 301-933-6804
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