Re: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor)
At 5/23/2008 16:39, you wrote: Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Just another Dayton 2008 bit of seller humor. One flea market space had a stack of 6 large RCA Tac Tec Mobiles for sale at a modest $30 each firm. Great Radio for its day and probably still quite usable for some ham project (the version that looks like a GE Mobile) but at that price I'm sure he took them back home or they went into the scoop loader on Sunday. Not as bad as the $200 75 watt UHF Mastr II mobile. It did have a UHS preamp, but come on, $200 for a Mastr II mobile? Bob NO6B
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor)
If it had the FM exciter, that's a pretty good deal. Joe M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 5/23/2008 16:39, you wrote: Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Just another Dayton 2008 bit of seller humor. One flea market space had a stack of 6 large RCA Tac Tec Mobiles for sale at a modest $30 each firm. Great Radio for its day and probably still quite usable for some ham project (the version that looks like a GE Mobile) but at that price I'm sure he took them back home or they went into the scoop loader on Sunday. Not as bad as the $200 75 watt UHF Mastr II mobile. It did have a UHS preamp, but come on, $200 for a Mastr II mobile? Bob NO6B Yahoo! Groups Links
RE: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor)
A lot of people made me feel bad when I told them I wanted $300.00 for my 75 watt Mastr II repeater station (not a mobile) complete with Wacom duplexer and multi-CTCSS tone panel! Heck, I could not sell a working RCA 700 desktop repeater ready to go on 444.975 for 50 bucks! I don't know what these people wanted. I think most wanted me to give them the equipment and pay them to haul it off. A foreign type guy wanted to buy a test cable for $5.00, I said no, that would be like giving it away. He then offered to buy two for 15, said no again. I did come down a lot on some things but for the most part I held firm like on the repeaters.A guy told me he bought a Micor complete with a duplexer for 100 bucks, I am sure he did. I have been given a lot of equipment like that but it does not mean I am going to give it away when I haul it that far. I would rather bring it back home and I did. The funny thing, I sold the GE Mastr II to a fellow club member here in Texas so I had to bring it back anyway! I still have a lot of GE and Motorola UHF base stations for sale, guess I will try Belton, Texas in the fall if fuel is not 10 bucks a gallon! Paul _ From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 2:37 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) At 5/23/2008 16:39, you wrote: Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Just another Dayton 2008 bit of seller humor. One flea market space had a stack of 6 large RCA Tac Tec Mobiles for sale at a modest $30 each firm. Great Radio for its day and probably still quite usable for some ham project (the version that looks like a GE Mobile) but at that price I'm sure he took them back home or they went into the scoop loader on Sunday. Not as bad as the $200 75 watt UHF Mastr II mobile. It did have a UHS preamp, but come on, $200 for a Mastr II mobile? Bob NO6B No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1463 - Release Date: 5/23/2008 3:36 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1463 - Release Date: 5/23/2008 3:36 PM
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor)
Yes I feel the same way. the $300 is a good price when I see what I pay for a TX RX duplexer and a Zetron tone panel. I think some people just want to see that they can get away with. John It is like I had some DB-420 for $100 and no one would give me that. - Original Message - From: Paul Finch To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 4:41 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) A lot of people made me feel bad when I told them I wanted $300.00 for my 75 watt Mastr II repeater station (not a mobile) complete with Wacom duplexer and multi-CTCSS tone panel! Heck, I could not sell a working RCA 700 desktop repeater ready to go on 444.975 for 50 bucks! I don't know what these people wanted. I think most wanted me to give them the equipment and pay them to haul it off. A foreign type guy wanted to buy a test cable for $5.00, I said no, that would be like giving it away. He then offered to buy two for 15, said no again. I did come down a lot on some things but for the most part I held firm like on the repeaters.A guy told me he bought a Micor complete with a duplexer for 100 bucks, I am sure he did. I have been given a lot of equipment like that but it does not mean I am going to give it away when I haul it that far. I would rather bring it back home and I did. The funny thing, I sold the GE Mastr II to a fellow club member here in Texas so I had to bring it back anyway! I still have a lot of GE and Motorola UHF base stations for sale, guess I will try Belton, Texas in the fall if fuel is not 10 bucks a gallon! Paul -- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 2:37 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) At 5/23/2008 16:39, you wrote: Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Just another Dayton 2008 bit of seller humor. One flea market space had a stack of 6 large RCA Tac Tec Mobiles for sale at a modest $30 each firm. Great Radio for its day and probably still quite usable for some ham project (the version that looks like a GE Mobile) but at that price I'm sure he took them back home or they went into the scoop loader on Sunday. Not as bad as the $200 75 watt UHF Mastr II mobile. It did have a UHS preamp, but come on, $200 for a Mastr II mobile? Bob NO6B No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1463 - Release Date: 5/23/2008 3:36 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1463 - Release Date: 5/23/2008 3:36 PM
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor)
I had heard about the TAC200 that the problem was inferior quality control on the incoming parts and the failure rate on some capacitors was terrible. I had experienced that particular problem. They were similiar to the Mastr II but the board layout was reversed left to right and so on. Worked on quite a few of them in their day. Steve KB3FPN - Original Message - From: Jack Hayes To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 10:28 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Many years ago I dated a young lady who worked for RCA in San Francisco. She used to say RCA stood for Really Crummy Apparatus. --- On Fri, 5/23/08, Paul Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Paul Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 7:24 PM Hello All, I guess everyone knows the history of the Tac Tec RCA radio? That radio single handed put RCA out of business. The engineers apparently copied the GE Mastr II radios almost verbatim and GE took them to court and won, bye bye RCA Like you said, they looked like GE's, small wonder Paul -- From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:Repeater- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com] On Behalf Of skipp025 Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:40 PM To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Just another Dayton 2008 bit of seller humor. One flea market space had a stack of 6 large RCA Tac Tec Mobiles for sale at a modest $30 each firm. Great Radio for its day and probably still quite usable for some ham project (the version that looks like a GE Mobile) but at that price I'm sure he took them back home or they went into the scoop loader on Sunday. cheers, s. ps: Now if they'd been RCA Series 700 stuff I might have been interested in the stack for $30 total... :-) pss: I know there's an RCA Carfone out there somewhere... still waiting to appear from someones garage. :-) No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.0/1461 - Release Date: 5/22/2008 4:44 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.0/1461 - Release Date: 5/22/2008 4:44 PM
RE: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor)
Many years ago I dated a young lady who worked for RCA in San Francisco. She used to say RCA stood for Really Crummy Apparatus. --- On Fri, 5/23/08, Paul Finch lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; wrote: From: Paul Finch lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]gt; Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, May 23, 2008, 7:24 PM Hello All, nbsp; I guess everyone knows the history of the Tac Tec RCA radio?nbsp; That radio single handed put RCA out of business.nbsp; The engineers apparently copied the GE Mastr II radios almost verbatim and GE took them to court and won,nbsp;bye bye RCA nbsp; Like you said, they looked like GE's, small wonder nbsp; Paul nbsp; From: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:Repeater- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com] On Behalf Of skipp025 Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:40 PM To: Repeater-Builder@ yahoogroups. com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Just another Dayton 2008 bit of seller humor. One flea market space had a stack of 6 large RCA Tac Tec Mobiles for sale at a modest $30 each firm. Great Radio for its day and probably still quite usable for some ham project (the version that looks like a GE Mobile) but at that price I'm sure he took them back home or they went into the scoop loader on Sunday. cheers, s. ps: Now if they'd been RCA Series 700 stuff I might have been interested in the stack for $30 total... :-) pss: I know there's an RCA Carfone out there somewhere... still waiting to appear from someones garage. :-) No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.0/1461 - Release Date: 5/22/2008 4:44 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.0/1461 - Release Date: 5/22/2008 4:44 PM
Re: [Repeater-Builder] Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor)
Hey Skip,. don't bad mouth my RCA Tac Tec (VeeTAC) repeater. It has been in service for almost 20 years now. I bought several of them for scrap by the pound, and they had been thrown out of the back of a truck. Fins broken and pretty well beat up, but they still worked. Only problem I had with it was when the wood ants got into it and glued the chassis to the wood shelf I had it on. They also covered over all the lands on the boards that had voltage on them. They finally caused some strange noises on the repeater and I was surprised that I could not pry the VeeTac off the shelf. That one went in the trash, needless to say. And a healthy (maybe unhealthy) dose of insect killer was sprayed around the wooden pole the repeater is mounted on. The cotton pickin ants finally ate the center out of the creasote pole and it blew over in a high wind - broke off at the base. Only cost our club insurance $7,000 to replace the fence and the corner of the telephone building it took out. Also took out the power, and their backup generator did not work, so we got taxed for the emergency service call to restore power. The ants can be as bad as the mice on another thread - HI. 73 - Jim W5ZIT skipp025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dayton 2008 Chuckle (Tac-Tec - humor) Just another Dayton 2008 bit of seller humor. One flea market space had a stack of 6 large RCA Tac Tec Mobiles for sale at a modest $30 each firm. Great Radio for its day and probably still quite usable for some ham project (the version that looks like a GE Mobile) but at that price I'm sure he took them back home or they went into the scoop loader on Sunday. cheers, s. ps: Now if they'd been RCA Series 700 stuff I might have been interested in the stack for $30 total... :-) pss: I know there's an RCA Carfone out there somewhere... still waiting to appear from someones garage. :-) _
