Radiosrfun wrote:
"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
U-Know-Who wrote:

I bet you already hooked up a long wire to your Space-Patrol walkie
talkie,
didn't ya?

Hey, a couple years back I had a QSO with a guy using a 49 MHz
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle walkie talkie, recrystalled for 6M.
He was getting out pretty well too.


Somewhere in my papers - I have an article that came out specifically
dealing with taking a "Space Patrol" type walkie talkie and placing it on "6
meters" as a QRP rig. I bought a pair to do it - and things got hectic. That
became a back burner project. I still have the walkie talkies but have to
dig out the paperwork.

It shouldn't be that big a deal.. I know a lot of the newer ones are basically
one IC with a crystal for the transmitter and an RC tank for the receive, so
you'd have only two things to change.

"Space Patrol" looks good on a QSL card equipment line, but not as good
as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
--scott


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