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GE Starcode 11 49 MHz walkie talkie specs.

KD5ITM

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Back around 1991 - 1992 around age 9 - 10, I got a set of the GE Starcode 11 49 MHz walkie-talkies. I still have them to this day in very decent quality and condition with the original packaging. I‘m trying to find the specs for those walkie-talkies, exact transmit frequency and power output. Does anyone have the spec info for these walkie-talkies?

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Tim - KD5ITM
 

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Most were on or near 49.860 with something like 10mW of PEP.
Back in 2003 when I got my first Icom IC-706MKII, I checked to see what the transmit frequency was but I do not remember. And I don‘t remember if it was AM or FM.
 

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Most of the el cheapo 49MHz stuff was AM. The higher quality stuff (usually had a squelch circuit) like the Realistic 21-401, were FM. Those were actually not bad radios and one could get quite a usable distance.
 

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GE Starcode 11 49 MHz

Most of the el cheapo 49MHz stuff was AM. The higher quality stuff (usually had a squelch circuit) like the Realistic 21-401, were FM. Those were actually not bad radios and one could get quite a usable distance.
I have taken a sudden interest in the Handic MicMan X , FM CB 6 channel walkie talkie. They, the X model, are unique in that they use only one crystal for TX and RX. It is superhet design and they apparently have an FM modulator at IF freq. Also tunable for 10M FM and Part 90 to 31 MHz. I don't think any sold here in US.
 

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some of those old toys worked fantastic.... I had a star trek communicator back in 1969 ..... my communicator could talk to captain kirk who was out in orbit!!!! I never asked him the actual range as I was only 4 years old at the time.....but I seem to remember it did all the cool stuff it showed on the box.... I still have it but it doesn't seem to work? and if you take it apart it's empty inside????
 
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