Motorola pager system information and questions (T5482C)

[UTLForlife]

Afternoon! I have the opportunity to acquire a complete cabinet for a motorola T5482C, I believe it is a 350w VHF paging system. I do not know much about what goes into a paging system but i'm curious if any of you have more info on the system, Ie Components, and specs. My main question is would there be any useful components in there for a repeater system?

 

[kf8yk]

That is more commonly known as a Nucleus paging transmitter.

The T5482 part number was used with both VHF & 900 MHz stations, you need to look at the part number on the power amplifier to know exactly what you have:

TTD2110/X830AD VHF 144-160 MHz
TTD2120/X830AE VHF 158-174 MHz
TTF1610/X201AA 900 MHz

 

[UTLForlife]

That is more commonly known as a Nucleus paging transmitter.

The T5482 part number was used with both VHF & 900 MHz stations, you need to look at the part number on the power amplifier to know exactly what you have:

TTD2110/X830AD VHF 144-160 MHz
TTD2120/X830AE VHF 158-174 MHz
TTF1610/X201AA 900 MHz

gotcha, do they typically come with a receiver? or could it be paired with a receiver to turn into an FM repeater? it looks like it has some processing capabilities for data. I am reading through the manual for the nucleus.

 

[kf8yk]

There was an option for an auxiliary receiver, typically the receiver was used for backhaul links in a wide area paging system & the receiver would be in a different band like 72 MHz. Most units did not have a receiver, instead using wireline or satellite for backhaul. These were never intended to be used as voice repeaters per se, the similar looking Quantar/Quantro was the product line for repeater use back then.

You need to read up on using external analog modulation to use these outside of POCSAG/Flex paging. There's some info here: Adding Analog Modulation to a Motorola Nucleus II Transmitter

 

[UTLForlife]

There was an option for an auxiliary receiver, typically the receiver was used for backhaul links in a wide area paging system & the receiver would be in a different band like 72 MHz. Most units did not have a receiver, instead using wireline or satellite for backhaul. These were never intended to be used as voice repeaters per se, the similar looking Quantar/Quantro was the product line for repeater use back then.

You need to read up on using external analog modulation to use these outside of POCSAG/Flex paging. There's some info here: Adding Analog Modulation to a Motorola Nucleus II Transmitter

Awsome find! Thanks for passing that along! According to that article.. it doesn't look too bad, a minor board modification and adding an audio source from another radio to the Nucleus.. hmm.. I've got some cdm 1250s laying around.