NC4RR
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Are their any uses for these ht 100 channels any more ?? vhf uhf
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Motorola MT 1000
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huh?
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Mostly just ham band. Most everything went narrowband in the US, and the MT-1000 will not do 2.5KHz deviation.
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The MT1000s are great for the Ham band, no mods necessary. I have several, and have all of the repeaters in SW Florida programmed in. They work great.
These are also Part 80 certified, so they are also great as marine radios. Since you can skip channel assignments, you can program in the US channels and have them read the right channel number on the display. I have all US marine channels programmed into a couple for boating, and use channels 91-97 to program in all of the NOAA weather channels.
A neat trick on these is to use 2 tone on the weather channels, using a long tone 1050Hz, and they will act as alert radios for weather, staying silent until the alert tone goes off. We are on the water a lot down here, and they come in very handy.
They are cheap, VERY rugged, and have great sensitivity.
John
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These are also Part 80 certified, so they are also great as marine radios. Since you can skip channel assignments, you can program in the US channels and have them read the right channel number on the display. I have all US marine channels programmed into a couple for boating, and use channels 91-97 to program in all of the NOAA weather channels.
A neat trick on these is to use 2 tone on the weather channels, using a long tone 1050Hz, and they will act as alert radios for weather, staying silent until the alert tone goes off. We are on the water a lot down here, and they come in very handy.
They are cheap, VERY rugged, and have great sensitivity.
John
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The Genesis series were some of the best portable radios Ma M ever built. One thing I would suggest is checking the solder pads on the RF board where they interconnect to both the universal connector and the antenna ferrule.
For some reason the antenna ferrule sometimes cracks/separates from the RF board resulting in poor transmit but the radio will RX okay. Other than this and dirty volume pots, these radios just refuse to die.
There were several splits on the VHF models, IIRC, 136-151, 146-162, 146-174 and 157-174. Everything EXCEPT the high split narrow model will do the ham band no problem.
The only UHF model that would do the ham band is the 438-470 split, however, the maximum front end Butterworth filter separation was like 12MHz. So they will work across the whole bandsplit but not without degraded performance. I usually stagger tuned them for 444 on the low end and 460 on the high end, just enough to cover most ham bands with .4 uv sensitivity and the same at the low end of 460.
The transmitters are fairly widebanded across the whole bandsplit.
For some reason the antenna ferrule sometimes cracks/separates from the RF board resulting in poor transmit but the radio will RX okay. Other than this and dirty volume pots, these radios just refuse to die.
There were several splits on the VHF models, IIRC, 136-151, 146-162, 146-174 and 157-174. Everything EXCEPT the high split narrow model will do the ham band no problem.
The only UHF model that would do the ham band is the 438-470 split, however, the maximum front end Butterworth filter separation was like 12MHz. So they will work across the whole bandsplit but not without degraded performance. I usually stagger tuned them for 444 on the low end and 460 on the high end, just enough to cover most ham bands with .4 uv sensitivity and the same at the low end of 460.
The transmitters are fairly widebanded across the whole bandsplit.
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