old motorola trunking radio/ phone

[LowderK]

ok here is my question…. back in 1990 when i was a Senior in high school in my vehicle I had a motorola radio that had a handset that looked like a cellphone but had a red vacuum display…. it was full duplex on phone calls but PTT (small button on the side of handset) if we used them as a radio …. they worked on a smart net/zone system i think….. does anyone know the model of that radio…? i was thinking something like ??-1000 or ??-1200..? thanks in advance

 

[ramal121]

Good ol' PP1000. When I was issued a company vehicle that had one, well I thought I was top dog.

 

[LowderK]

ok your right privacy plus…! that’s right i think mine was a 1200 not sure the difference

 

[KevinC]

ok your right privacy plus…! that’s right i think mine was a 1200 not sure the difference

I don't recall a 1200. I seem to recall a 750 (or 700?) and a 1000, but that was a loooong time ago.

ETA...Maybe is was 500 and not 700.

 

[LowderK]

i do believe your right….. 750 and 1000…. i had friends on the same system that had B7 spectra’s that we could talk together but when they made phone calls it was PTT so kinda 3/4 duplex lol

 

[kf8yk]

The Privacy Plus 500 & 1000 were the first generation of the Privacy Plus full duplex radios, radio looked like a Mitrek/Maratrac housing & required the 1801 suitcase programmer or external PROM burner to program.

Next was the Privacy Plus 250 & 750. Same handset but the radio was the size of a Maxtrac. Programmed with a RIB & RSS software. The 250 was interconnect only, no dispatch.

 

[mikegilbert]

Here ya go!

and its more advanced APCO-16 handheld brother:

 

[LowderK]

nice thanks all…. just reliving some old memories……. just my opinion i miss them days……. my 1st mobile like phone was in 1987 in ruidoso new mexico i was 16 it was a GE MPI portable on a interconnect system but if you tried to monitor it ( UHF) on the mobile /portable side you would hear the “GE” jinggle….. other then MPI handhelds we had GE mobiles that were under the seat with a LED display but had CES mics that looked like a cellular phone without the display not sure if the model if the CES or GE radio…. you had either Lincoln Communications or Caprock communications in ruidoso in them days

 

[MTS2000des]

There was also a Privacy Plus MaxTrac that supported full duplex interconnect. I had one active on our long gone Smartnet II trunking system.

 

[LowderK]

really… do you remember the model number.? that is cool i never know that line had a full duplex was it stil PTT tho?

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

Good ol' PP1000. When I was issued a company vehicle that had one, well I thought I was top dog.

Yup I had one. It worked pretty well. Probably a lot of folks listening in however..