firedog359
Member
Hello everyone.First off,I'm just a Firefighter who loves and collects old radios and consoles.I'm not a Ham or a Tech,so I don't know a whole lot about some of the equipment that I have.I recently aquired a GE Mastr II VHF high band base station in the 30" deskmate cabinet.The comb number shows it to be an intermittent duty,110 watt,2ch TX/RX,channel guard unit with extended local control.The unit came with a series 659 Mastr local controller and a Motorola N1016B paging encoder.I have managed to aquire most of the service manuals for everything but I still have some questions that I hope someone will take the time to answer.First,In the pictures that I have seen online,there is a control shelf with cards or an IDA controller.Mine doesn't have any of this and I'm wondering does the local controller take the place of all that? Also,exactly what does an IDA controller do?Thanks in advance for any and all help with my questions.