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    Join Date: Oct 2012

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    I'm Alan.

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    A blast from the past here, I had one decades ago in an old Datsun Cherry estate.
    I have just been given this, it is a Pye Cambridge with production life 1961 - 1970.

    Originally AM with an output of 5-7W this one has been converted to amateur radio use on FM.
    It is not small, there is a boot mount chassis with remote control head and speaker and microphone. Very Z cars era.

    These were used as early radio telephones with a maximum of six channel, call signs and one way speech (..over).
    This is the boot mount chassis:



    The control box and speaker, you can tell it's a radiotelephone 'cause it says so:



    The microphone really looks ancient, plus being as large as a modern smartphone:



    The transmitter section uses valves (ooooohh):



    It still works on transmit but not on receive. In reality it is a museum piece, here is an original photo from Pye:




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    Join Date: Apr 2012

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    I'm Geoff.

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    I used something very similar at work in the seventies. (I was 'Tango Three' by the way )

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    Had something similar but more modern with one of the companies i worked for. late 70's into 80's... worked quite well but had range limits
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    I've still got one of these, boxed, perfect condition. People asking eighty squid for them on ebay:

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