On 12/1/2015 11:20 AM, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 01/12/2015 16:09, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
Galaxy FM-210
em no ...the clegg and the drake tr22 six channel xtal job is about as
far back as I go ....with 2m stuff anyway...a bit more modern was
playing with a weird tri-band drake uv3 in 1979 ....about as modern as I
went with merrycan gear ....


The FM-210 was the first solid state FM rig made for 2M ham bands, if
not the first 2M FM rig specifically for the ham bands. Before that
came out, we used converted tube-type Motorola "G" and "A" strips and GE
Prog lines.

Converting these from VHF high band (150-174Mhz) was pretty easy.
Change crystals, add a few pf to the receiver front end and transmitter
output circuit and it would tune right up. But most were single
channel; if you found a dual channel one you were in hog heaven.

And the current drain - most had vibrator power supplies, although a few
older ones had dynamotors. 10-25W, depending on the model, and would
pull 8-10 amps in receive and up to 20 amps keyed.

Those were the good old days, when you could actually work on stuff
(like you could cars).

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