There is a part 15 hobbyists club for things in the 49mHz band
http://www.qsl.net/49mhz/
I think Bruce MICRO1700 has talked about 49mHz.
There is a part 15 hobbyists club for things in the 49mHz band
http://www.qsl.net/49mhz/
I think Bruce MICRO1700 has talked about 49mHz.
long dead. i was a member
long dead. i was a member. sad it is though. was a good idea and i even came up with some ideas for efficient long range 49 mhz comm’s
RC
Great band for RC stuff.
RFB
I did a lot of 49 MHz stuff
I had 2 one channel Radio
Shack FM 49 MHz walkie talkies.
They were very good, but very
low power and usually had baby
monitors or cordless phones
on that one channel, unfortunately.
I think those radio ran about
5 mW. The receivers were very very
sensitive, though. I got about
a half mile range one day on a
long empty main road, where there
was no interference. (About 30 years
ago.)
I believe the frequency was 49.83 MHz.
Radio Shack made a 5 channel hand
held version. I wish I had bought
2 of those. They would have been
more useful because there probably
would have been empty useable channels –
instead of all of that interference.
That 49 MHz club had some members long
long ago. One guy tried to put a 49 MHz
walkie talkie inside a beam antenna –
in other words, it was part OF the antenna,
so the range could be increased.
Those were good memories using those radios,
but they were too lacking, unfortunately.
Some people modified them for 6 meter FM
ham radio. I could see doing that to
monitor a specific 6 meter channel. As
I mentioned, the receivers were very very
good. On the other hand, they would not
transmit very far.
Bruce, W 60 HZ
I’ve got some…
I bought some of those from RS when they were transitioning from RADIO Shack to REGULAR STUFF…on closeout. I got 3 of them (one of them is a 5 channel I think)…all 3 of them still in boxes in my shack/studio. Never did anything with them, but planned to do a 6 meter beacon project with them…now, I don’t know what to do with them…any ideas?
That’s a good question
I can’t believe you have a
5 channel unit.
Those are rare. Is this the
walkie talkie kind, or is it
the unit with the mike and
headset?
You might want to put them up
on E-bay. There are a lot of
people out there that are looking
for radios that they once had and
got rid of years ago.
That’s of course, if you wanted to
get rid of them.
If I come up with any good ideas, I’ll
let you know. I can’t think of any
at the moment.
Best Wishes,
Bruce, W 60 HZ, X-13
even rarer i 2 have mint
even rarer i 2 have mint condition RS spook type flat pack vox radios with covert earpeice on 49mhz
Gee Robert, I don’t think I’ve seen what you mention.
I don’t know about those – –
but here’s an interesting piece
of radio trivia.
Just when Lafayette Radio was
ending their long run as a really
cool “radio” store, they started
making 49 MHz walkie talkies.
Those radios had metal cases and
were built like tanks. I think
they were AM, and very much like
their 27 MHz radios. I wish there
was more Lafayette radio gear around,
just in general.
I have a Lafayette VHF/UHF monitor
receiver from either the late 1960s
or the early 1970s. It’s a beautiful
piece of gear, and every part of it
looks and works fine.
There used to be a Lafayette website,
but I haven’t seen it lately.
From what I remember, you are quite a
bit younger than I am. I am 58.
But what you remember about this gear
and radio history in general is amazing,
I think. Because you are so much younger
and didn’t live through as much of those
times as some of us did. But yet you have
a tremendous amount of knowledge.
Best Wishes,
Bruce, Experimenting with Part 15 CC and 13.560