Philips FM1000.....

[Rog]

Hi All,
Have four redundent Philips FM1000 rigs that have been used prior to mobile
phones.
Can they be converted and put to amateur use?
Is it worth doing? or send them to the bin?
Any info gladly received,
Rog G0FNO

[Bob Martin]

Yes you can find your local Simoco service centre (ex Philips telecom) and
they will have either a portable data programmer or a PC based data
programmer and they will be able to set these up to TX/RX on 2m for you.

Power output is nominal 25W but they will go to 30W and you get 100
channels.

not a bad set and the fascia is remote mountable too if you can get your
hands on a separation cable

Rog <rogerth...@redhotant.com> wrote in message
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[Rog]

Thanks for the info, I'll check if there is a centre local to me.
Cheers, Rog
"Bob Martin" <bma...@qssi.df.ac.com> wrote in message
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[Alan Melia]

Watch out for the Band 3 trunking radios mainly ones with the keypad. These
cant easily be converted as they need a new control PCB as far as I am
aware.
Cheers de Alan G3NYK
Alan....@btinternet.com

Rog wrote in message <39e9...@news.jakinternet.co.uk>...

[Jan Buiting]

Conversion to ham use of FM1100 and FM1200 may be found in Radio Today,
September 2000 issue, or on my website at http://www.pmpc.myweb.nl

Also join the newsgroup "FM1000" on http://www.egroups.com

Jan
PE1CSI
Philips Vintage PMR Collection

Rog <rogerth...@redhotant.com> wrote in message
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[bigpimp]

> Hi All,
> Have four redundent Philips FM1000 rigs that have been used prior to
mobile
> phones.
> Can they be converted and put to amateur use?
> Is it worth doing? or send them to the bin?
> Any info gladly received,
> Rog G0FNO
>
>

Put them in the bin.............My bin !!
No seriously they will reprogramm quite easily...
i have one here on 70cms packet...
all depends which band yours is...

hope it's not the band 3 version.......not worth a weekend at a rally..

M1ADU/M5ADU........................PMR's your mate..!!

[pa...@my-deja.com]

http://www.qsl.net/pa1mt
for also info for the FM1000 !!!

Greetings Gerrit

In article <8se981$els$1...@buty.wanadoo.nl>,

"Jan Buiting" <pe1...@amsat.org> wrote:
> Conversion to ham use of FM1100 and FM1200 may be found in Radio
Today,
> September 2000 issue, or on my website at http://www.pmpc.myweb.nl
>
> Also join the newsgroup "FM1000" on http://www.egroups.com
>
> Jan
> PE1CSI
> Philips Vintage PMR Collection
>
> Rog <rogerth...@redhotant.com> wrote in message
> news:39e9...@news.jakinternet.co.uk...

> > Hi All,
> > Have four redundent Philips FM1000 rigs that have been used prior to
> mobile
> > phones.
> > Can they be converted and put to amateur use?
> > Is it worth doing? or send them to the bin?
> > Any info gladly received,
> > Rog G0FNO
> >
> >
>
>

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