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Comment on Western Mobile Telephone Callmaster MT-200 US Communications Corp 1981 #87 by Geoff Fors

Geoff Fors — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:07:03 +0000

Western Mobile Telephone was a used car telephone refurbisher in Anaheim, California run by Art Garabedian. He would mate the US Communications heads to much older, refurbished radio drawers and then sell them to end users or small dealers. The maker of the head is unrelated to Western. Pacific Telephone used these heads on their company owned phones, with an annoyingly different access code string for programming. In use they became very hot.

Comment on Yaesu Musen FTC-2205 “Traveler” 1982-1983 #151 by Geoff Fors

Geoff Fors — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:05:53 +0000

Yaesu FTC2205 Traveler was being marketed by 1982. I worked at a Yaesu dealer at the time and we had them by the summer of ’83. A rather impractical item to try to seriously use. Expensive.

Comment on Standard / Hitachi AMPS Analong Control Head 1983 #122 by Geoff Fors

Geoff Fors — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:05:15 +0000

Hitachi which was made
with a Western Electric KS # and while intended to go with a
Hitachi drawer, like all first generation production AMPS units,
will run anyone else’s radio package. Interesting large display

Comment on Harris Alpha 40 / Alpha 2000 Black #119 by Geoff Fors

Geoff Fors — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:04:39 +0000

A Harris head mated to competitor’s
radio or the CT1555 Harris drawer was Alpha 40. When mated to the Harris
AL2000, it was the Alpha 2000. Very high quality set.

Comment on Motorola Rotary MK UHF Automatic Control Head Black #134 by jack

jack — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:56:44 +0000

Ronnie, Geoff, is this a FACTS unit? Fully Automatic Car Telephone System Control Head?

Comment on Motorola 02500A/8000x Pre-Production Brick 1981 bone LED #210 by jack

jack — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:29:45 +0000

The first cellular phone was released to the public in 1983 as the DynaTAC 8000x. Cellular phones were in development from 1973 to 1983. These two phones are from 1981, pre-production. Only four units are known to exist.

Comment on Panasonic eb300w ad 1989 #8 by jack

jack — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:45:41 +0000

Not much value. I would recommend you place the unit on Ebay. Good luck

Comment on Panasonic eb300w ad 1989 #8 by efj212509

efj212509 — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:36:52 +0000

I have a Panasonic mobile phone model EF-6108EA . It is in perfect working condition. Does it have any monetary value ? Please advise. The phone is like the one on the picture.

Thank You

Comment on IMTS (1964 to Today) by IMTS Release in 1964 An Important Advancement in Cellular Technology | Wireless Museum

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:23:58 +0000

[...] an important milestone in telecommunication development, the IMTS system was released in 1964. IMTS, which is an abbreviation for Improved Mobile Telephone Service, was released and put into practice [...]

Comment on MTS (1946 to 1984) by IMTS Release in 1964 An Important Advancement in Cellular Technology | Wireless Museum

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:21:21 +0000

[...] IMTS was released to replace the existing Mobile Telephone System, which was regularly and commonly referred to as the MTS system. The MTS system had been in use by [...]