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Radiodude
Advanced Member
Username: Radiodude
Post Number: 621
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 21, 2012 - 3:42 pm: | 
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If anyone has a Motorola Mocat 40 channel cb with original mic please contact me.
Ernie
KC8YOQ
Copper 123
Walkie Talkie
2NA750
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Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2230
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, December 21, 2012 - 6:52 pm: |
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Ebay is your friend here.
BTW, the Mocat line is a fantastic radio.
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 953
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 7:17 pm: |
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I wanted one so bad when they came out. They looked so much like the police radios. But I have only seen pictures. I lost out on ebay on a brand new one one time.
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
Mrnobody
Member
Username: Mrnobody
Post Number: 85
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 28, 2012 - 9:11 pm: |
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motorola also made base adapters for these radios |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2231
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 - 10:35 am: |
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Where people blew it with these radios was when they added power microphones.
Like their commercial radios, the Motorola Mocat CB radios fed DC to the microphone through the cable to power an amplifier in the mic. By having the first amplification stage in the mic rather than in the radio, they practically eliminated RF rectification audio feedback in the transmitter. It also almost eliminated the possibility of strong RF fields from modulating the CB radio.
So, not realizing that the stock mic has a high gain audio stage built in, users would wire up the typical battery powered CB power mic to the Motorolas, and then be disappointed in the results. The battery mics don't have the amount of gain that the Motorola circuit does, so the audio was actually worse.
The good news is, with the stock mic, the Motorola CB radios have plenty of audio. The transmit and receive audio is always above average on almost every Motorola product.
My only regret is that the FCC didn't make the CB band FM mode instead of AM when it was created, or at least before it became popular. Imagine how many commercially produced radios could have been easily adapted to CB with far superior performance to the "price-point" radios offered all these years!
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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Mrnobody
Member
Username: Mrnobody
Post Number: 86
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 28, 2012 - 9:10 pm: |
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i have motorola 4009, think it's close to the mocat, nib |
Ironmike
Member
Username: Ironmike
Post Number: 68
Registered: 6-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, January 03, 2013 - 5:25 am: |
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I have the Ford Aeronutronic badged version. |
