Re: How did you get into radio?


> Believe it or not, they were also popular as mobile rigs in those
> days! Several of my local GM3s had them fitted in their cars ... often
> mounted between the driver and passenger seats in the front of the
> car, because many cars had column gear-changes at that time. They
> worked very well on 80 and 40 metres AM, but I never knew of anyone
> who succeeded in getting the VHF unit to work on 2 metres.

I had a nice one with headphones carbon mic , ant tuner and dynamotor...sat
on the back seat of my '63 mini wired direct to battery in
boot.....KWALITY.......we just don't appreciate what we have these days...it
all has to be small and DIGITAL..........


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