Hello i was hoping to get more information on this handheld. It is a motorola mx-350 and is programmed to 73.3mhz....i have tried to do some research and haven't found anything on it. I was told it was a government radio from the 70s and is on a "restricted band".....i was looking to sell it to someone who can make use of it and add it to their collection. What would a fair price be?
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I don't know but as I DO collect interesting and unusual radios, and like the MX series in particular, as there are so many unique types of them, I'm interested in it.
I've heard of midband MX radios existing but have never actually seen one.
Is it an SSU series model number? (Synthesized, also says MX-300S in red letters on the steel escutcheon, just below the antenna.)
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I've heard of midband MX radios existing but have never actually seen one.
Is it an SSU series model number? (Synthesized, also says MX-300S in red letters on the steel escutcheon, just below the antenna.)
Elroy
Mid-band radios, 72-76 MHz here and 72-88 MHz in Europe are pretty scarce. Everybody seems to have migrated to higher freqs or use cell phones.these days. Mid-band is used by remote controls for industrial machinery, radio fire alarm boxes and even land mobile, if you can find equipment for it. It was used for radio links between paging transmitters until satellites became cheap as well.
trivia: In one of the James Bond flicks, He's trying to stop a nuclear detonation at a US Air Force base in Germany. The bomb is hidden in a circus. James goes crashing through the gate of the base and the AP's have... Mid-band MX's! Sorry I can't remember which film it is, but it shows where my mind is at...
trivia: In one of the James Bond flicks, He's trying to stop a nuclear detonation at a US Air Force base in Germany. The bomb is hidden in a circus. James goes crashing through the gate of the base and the AP's have... Mid-band MX's! Sorry I can't remember which film it is, but it shows where my mind is at...
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The European midband is actually 66 to 88 mHz. I've seen photos of US Army MPs carrying Saber I radios with long, really long, rubber antennas, and since we know that Sabers were not made for 30-50 mHz these had to be the Euro midband Sabers.
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haha, it was edited but you get the drift
As for the MX portable
We need to know more information about it
Regular surplus MX's go for pennies on ebay all the time, but there are a few gems that rack up a few bucks
Maybe it's a receiver meant to be used as a body wire receiver since many of the old ones were in that 70 Mhz range.
hey thanks everyone for your input! and elroy it only says MX-350 on it..so it is most likely not the synthesized version..the model number is H42AXU1120A SP3...it has a super sky probe antenna as well as a shoulder mic and an original motorola case for it.i am in need of an HT-1250LS+
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