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Old 29th Dec 2017, 6:38 pm   #1
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I believe it's quite well known that the personal radios used in the programme were Pye PF8s. However, does anybody know the makes and models of the two-way mobile radios fitted to the cars ? There were at least two; one with a hexagonal-shaped fist microphone and one with a black telephone-style handset (looked vaguely Japanese-made). Cowley's car had the latter with a second handset on the back seat.

I've tried to find this information on the Mk1 Episode Guide but no joy.

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Post some screengrabs and someone here can undoubtedly help!

or scroll through the G8EPR Pye Museum and hope to spot something similar??

http://www.qsl.net/gm8aob/toc.htm
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I found one picture. Not that good but the best I can find.
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The slotted speaker-grille looks like something from a member of the Dymar "Lynx" family:

http://www.qsl.net/gm8aob/pages_2/dymar880.htm#Lynx

I used a Lynx-2000 [converted from bootmount to dash-mount] on 2M as a packet-radio station in the 1990s. It could be driven really rather harder than Dymar intended, with a 50:50 duty cycle, while retaining acceptable spectral purity!
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Thank you G6. The mention of the Dymar Lynx rings a bell and the pictures look familiar. Not sure about the GPO handset though - maybe not an original accessory.
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There were a number of handsets with push-to-talk features used with these radios [and the Pye Westminsters/Whitehalls of the same era]

Example: http://www.qsl.net/gm8aob/images/2007_02160004.JPG

and a similar 'squarer' style with clip-down cradle was also used:

http://www.storno.co.uk/img/55channel.jpg

[this one shown with a Storno two-way VHF install]
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Old 29th Dec 2017, 9:27 pm   #7
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I have a handset much the same as the one in the first picture. I think it was a Fire Service surplus item but not the same as the 'Cowley' one, which was a little bigger.
The Storno unit is similar to those supplied with modern Air Traffic Control comms systems.

Interesting that Mk1 opted for Pye personal radios but Dymar for the mobiles. Mind, I don't suppose any of them were working units and merely props.
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The picture a few posts back is a Dymar Lynx 830. Anybody want one, I've a couple to get rid of, low band cyrstalled for 4m.

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I would be interested to know a bit more about them. Ideally I wanted something that would do multimode on 4m but realise that won't happen without buying an Icom 7100!
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