There is a YahooGroup mailing list oriented toards Tait radios at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TAIT_Radios.
If you are at all interested in these radios I suggest you join it.

Contact Information:				Parent company:
	Tait North America Inc. 15740 Park Row, Building 1, Suite 450 Houston, Texas 77084 Phone 281-829-3300 http://www.taitradio.com				Tait Electronics Limited 175 Roydvale Ave Christchurch, New Zealand Telephone +64 3 358 3399 Fax +64 3 358 0340

An overview article on what equipment is of interest to the amateur would be most welcome (and we won't complain if it's written by a dealer, as long as the major thrust is information sharing and not sales). If there is a Tait expert "out there" let me know, I'd be willing to just about turn over this page to you.

You should read this page before any of the other articles here in the Tait section.
Tait Introductory Information An introduction to the Tait radio equipment, with background, history, some model-specific information, photos, and other miscellaneous items.

Click here for a chart showing the frequency coverage of various Tait models.   Courtesy of A. Nony Mous.

A lot of information on older products is at http://support.taitradio.com/home.
Tait has made some service manuals for older radios downloadable for the general public (as opposed to dealers, and others with special privileges) at their support website.

Locally Downloadable Manuals:

T296-01 Power Supply   20.2 KB PDF
Cleaned up a little (removed some scanner-introduced speckles) and converted to PDF by WA6ILQ from a 372 KB JPG supplied by a ham in Australia.

A 13.8 MB collection of informative brochures, all worth looking at. The portable repeater is especially worth looking at.

T800 backplane module   308 KB PDF

T800 rackplane interface module schematic   13 KB PDF

T800-02 CTCSS module   93 KB PDF

T800-02 CTCSS module Technical Note 566   589 KB PDF

T800 Power Supply Service Manual   891 KB PDF

T800 Power Supply Diagram   35 KB PDF

T800 Ancillary Equipment   1.9 MB PDF

T800 Series II Ancillary Equipment service manual, Part 1 of 2   1.8 MB PDF
Issue 101 dated May 1998.

T800 Series II Ancillary Equipment service manual, Part 2 of 2   2.4 MB PDF

T830 Series Base Station Equipment service manual   3.2 MB PDF
Issue 100 dated February 1996.

T830 Series II Base Station Equipment 136-174 MHz Service Manual   8.5 MB PDF
Issue 201 dated August 1999.

T835 136-174 MHz Receiver Manual   16.9 MB PDF
Issue A dated January 1991.

T837 136-174 MHz Exciter Manual   12.6 MB PDF
Issue A dated January 1991.

T838 136-174 MHz Power Amplifier Manual   7.9 MB PDF
Issue A dated June 1991.

T850 Series Base Station Equipment Service Manual   1.8 MB PDF

T855 Audio Processor schematic   146 kB PDF
Looks like it's part of the T850-series equipment manual.

TM8100 and TM8200 mobile radio service manual   20.7 MB PDF

Tait Programming Interface (T700/2000/ORCA) Schematic Diagram   50 kB PDF

Tait TB8100 Base Station Stuff   57.7 MB ZIP file
Contains documentation, firmware, and software for a March 2009 maintenance release. We have no idea what any of this is, as it came anonymously, probably from a CD. Download the file and unzip it, then see what's in there.

Specifications and Sales Brochures:

Spec sheet for the TB8100 series base / repeater station 540 kB PDF file.

Spec sheet for the TB2100 series base / repeater station 941 kB PDF file.

Spec sheet for the TB9100 series base / repeater station 515 kB PDF file.

Sales brochure for the transportable repeater based on the TB8100 and TB9100 stations 494 kB PDF file.

Donations of any other manuals would be welcome, as well as articles on repeater-related topics (like where to find a COR signal or a subauduble tone decode signal in a radio).

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This article first posted 21-Dec-2005.