If I am honest this was one of the best radios I ever had. It had no memories, no fancy gismos, but it worked well. If my memory serves me, I used this with a TV J-Beam antenna (hand rotated) which still had about 10dB gain in the 70cm amateur band.
12 Feb 2017
First UHF Radio
My very first UHF radio was a version of the synthesised FM320 Australian UHF FM CB mobile made by Philips. This was a 70cm amateur version. It was called the FM321. It produced 4W on TX and used channel numbers. I remember someone from Philips discussing producing an amateur band version, at an IEE conference I think.
Ergonomically it was excellent. It only got used at home, never mobile. It worked some impressive DX on UHF FM simplex. I cannot remember when it was sold.
If I am honest this was one of the best radios I ever had. It had no memories, no fancy gismos, but it worked well. If my memory serves me, I used this with a TV J-Beam antenna (hand rotated) which still had about 10dB gain in the 70cm amateur band.
If I am honest this was one of the best radios I ever had. It had no memories, no fancy gismos, but it worked well. If my memory serves me, I used this with a TV J-Beam antenna (hand rotated) which still had about 10dB gain in the 70cm amateur band.
Roger
ReplyDeleteWhen was launched has a CB rig, late 1980s early 90s? I did not know the did a ham version until I read it on your bog.
Tony G4LlW
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