Zetron Model 48

[100pcttn]

I have a Zetron Model 48 that was used as our telephone interconnect here at our manufacturing plant for the old Motorola beeper system. It's been taken out of service for a few years. Wondering if there's any saleable interest in it before I send it off to the big recycling plant in the sky! Thanks.

 

[buddrousa]

They make a good ANALOG Repeater Controller for Community Repeaters.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

still useful. Condition? Photos?

 

[buddrousa]

At one time I kept about 20 working in West Ky and West Tn. This before the cellphone was in a car and we had phonelines on them 1 in each county made it real handy car phones.

 

[100pcttn]

still useful. Condition? Photos?

I can only say the unit was operating as designed when it was removed from service. Since then, it has sat on a shelf in my office. Photos attached....

 

[PACNWDude]

That is a blast from the past, an older Zetron "black box" product (even though they were dark grey). I used to work for Zetron, many newly minted engineers worked there as one of their first jobs in the region. It was interesting to see "Bellevue" on the tag too, as the company has been in Redmond for a very long time now.

Great product, but at this point, if you are wanting to sell it, realistic pricing might be gleaned from some of the popular auction sites, as this is one of their older products. Attached is a brochure for the "B" variant.

As far as old Zetron products go, this one may still be useful to someone, as previous posts show.

 

[100pcttn]

That is a blast from the past, an older Zetron "black box" product (even though they were dark grey). I used to work for Zetron, many newly minted engineers worked there as one of their first jobs in the region. It was interesting to see "Bellevue" on the tag too, as the company has been in Redmond for a very long time now.

Great product, but at this point, if you are wanting to sell it, realistic pricing might be gleaned from some of the popular auction sites, as this is one of their older products. Attached is a brochure for the "B" variant.

As far as old Zetron products go, this one may still be useful to someone, as previous posts show.

Thanks! Yes, I'm a firm believer in trying to repurpose things before just tossing them out. As described, we used this for our own in-house paging system for that chapter of that program. I think I found a copy of the old PO on it where we bought this particular unit around 2001. (You may know better on that detail since you worked for them and probably know their serial number pattern!). It's been in my office for several years, now I'm trying to downsize and sift through 40+ years of paperwork and "collected" items....like this Zetron!

 

[N8YX]

I have a couple Zetron 27s in the shack. One at either end of one of my operating positions. 4ea Optocom/R-7000/PCR-1000 combos feed them, and the other 4 channels - two per 27 - are fed by two pairs of IC-751A/R-71As. TX muting is handled by an Extron IPCP-355M. If any of the four transceivers on the bench goes into TX, everything is muted except the audio channel being used by that particular transceiver (so I can hear the sidetone when using CW).

The use of 27s was suggested by forum members. It's a round-about replacement for my Multi-RX units (which I would LOVE to see back in production...) but the same level of functionality will be achieved - albeit with a few more discrete pieces of hardware.