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Compiled by Mike Morris WA6ILQ from donations from several folks
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Technical Information on Equipment Compiled by Mike Morris WA6ILQ from donations from several folks Click on the logo or here for the main Tait web site |
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| Tait North America Inc. 15740 Park Row, Building 1, Suite 450 Houston, Texas 77084 Phone: 281-829-3300 email: info at taitmobile dot com USA Website http://us.taitworld.com |
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Parent company: Tait Electronics Limited 175 Roydvale Ave Christchurch, New Zealand Telephone +64 3 358 3399 Fax +64 3 358 0340 |
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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.
Repeater-Builder is looking for additional info on Tait commercial repeaters, bases, mobiles, etc, including sources of Tait equipment in the USA (it's rare - I've seen exactly one mobile and one repeater in 20 years in southern California...). An overview article on what equipment is of interest to the amateur would be most welcome. If there is a Tait expert "out there" let me know, I'd be willing to just about turn over this page to you.
Cracking the model number code:
As far as we know that most Tait equipment uses 3 digits to indicate the basic RF
configuration of the radio. Let's use the model number T2020-XYZ-AAA as
an example... Tait calls the XYZ digits the "RF Type group" and in it:
The value of "X" in the above example translates to the frequency band:
The value of "Y" in the above example designates radio IF bandwidth.
The value of "Z" the above example designates frequency stability.
(no data yet)
The digits represented by the AAA in the above example cover a wide range of software and market specific options. The large number of options and their frequent changes preclude listing them here.
One refreshing policy of Tait is that the programming hardware schematics and all of the radio programming software is provided to dealers at no charge. Dealers can distribute it to interested end users if they chose to.
Click here for a chart showing the frequency coverage of various Tait models. Courtesy of A. Nony Mous.
One option that Tait offers that very few manufacturers have is voting in the mobile - where a mobile can select the best base station or repeater signal depending on signal strength. Picture an agency, such as a county or district police department, with a large number of linked base stations, all at different geographical sites (each of which, naturally, has different geographical coverage, or "footprint"), all of which transmit the same audio (or it could be a large, linked repeater system configured so that what goes in on one system comes out on all systems). This mobile voting feature causes each users receiver to automatically select the best signal, and the receiver steers the transmitter appropriately. The user never has to twist a knob as he drives around. This Tait applications note describes the technology and how it works. The nifty part is that it's all in the mobile radio.
A lot of information on older products is at http://www.taitworld.com/technical.
Locally Downloadable Manuals:A 13.8 Mb collection of informative brochures, all worth looking at. The portable repeater is especially worth looking at.
T800-02 tone module (for CTCSS)
T800 Power Supply Service Manual
T850 Series Base Station Equipment Service Manual
Donations of any other manuals would be welcome, as well as articles on repeater-related topics (like where to find a COR signal in a 2010 radio).
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