What is the difference between a Tram D-201 and a D-201a?

-Night Ranger

On 6 Dec 2003 09:18:28 -0800, (Night Ranger)
was spewin' his pothole sayin':

....What is the difference between a Tram D-201 and a D-201a?
....

Uhmmm.......a letter?

chortle...

seriously? I think the D-201A was a 40 channel and the d-201 was a 23
channel...

and I believe the 201A was also a major revision in design...


....-Night Ranger


me

Subject: What is the difference between a Tram D-201 and a D-201a?
From: (Night Ranger)
Date: 12/6/2003 10:18 AM Mountain Standard Time
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What is the difference between a Tram D-201 and a D-201a?

I think the D-201A is the 40 channel version of the Tram classic, and the D-201
is the 23 channel version. All of the D-201A's I've seen on eBay recently have
been 40 channel rigs.

73,
David

Answer to your question is:
D-201 was a fcc type accepted 23 channel radio.
D-201a was an fcc type accepted 40 channel radio.
Now the stinger so to speak, only difference is the channel slector, and the
variable recieve tuner.
Now that said, the 23 cannel model can be modified to do everthing the 40
channel model can, at the time these radios were made, they were the top
performing radio bar none. The drawbacks are this, you are dealing with a mix
of solid state componets and tubes. These radios were anything close to trouble
free, they are of a old technowledgy that had its problems, and very few techs
can work on them and make the radio perform as it should, and last parts are no
longer available, except to the highest bidder so to speak.
If you want to save your self some trouble, stay the H*LL away from these
things, when they work they are ok, the average high power export radio will
outperform them easily on x-mit, and recieve, and is a whole lot cheaper to
maintain and operate.
In case you are wondering how I know what I am talking about, I am a licensed
ham radio operator, and I am part of the MARS program, NAVY-MARINE CORPS MARS
to be exact, but I got my start with CB back around 1971. Do yourself a favor
and stay away from the boatachors, lol so to speak. Did you know that you can
get a ham radio license and never have to learn morse code? Well you can, and
buddy let me tell you something, you can talk farther reliably with a 2-meter
radio and a repeater system, than you ever could with a CB, and 100KW linear,
and a moster beam antenna on a 150 ft. tower. And the best thing about it is
that you can be legal, with no complaints from the neighbors about their
microwave talking to them or their tv about to be blown up, and talk with
people that use clean language on the radio, and best of all no echo-boxes and
beeps and pings, and farts, and all that worthless junk.

Hope that this has answered your question, 73's NNN0WAW, NNN0GAY EIGHT,
NNN0WAT, UNITED STATES NAVY-MARINE CORPS MARS