Note-this page is still under construction as of March 31, 2009.. I will add photos as I have time. Geoff Fors
UNUSUAL POLICE, FIRE AND HIGHWAY PATROL 2-WAY RADIOS
This page is an adjunct to my pages on the California Highway Patrol radio system and consists of assorted miscellaneous photos of radios used by the police and highway patrols of other states and countries in various years, in no particular order, as well as larger fire agencies and federal government groups. If you have photos of unusual radio equipment used by any state highway patrol or police or fire agency, I would be happy to add them here and give you credit. I have avoided showing common, off-the-shelf models of equipment. This page only shows unusual or specially made equipment.
RCA Equipment
RCA 1000 Series, 42 MHz, Nevada Highway Patrol + Michigan State Police, Mid-1970's
NHP used these along with an assortment of conventional, non-scanning RCA 700 Series mobiles, in the mid to late 1970's, perhaps up into the 1980's, on a 42 MHz low band system. They seem to have also used a wide assortment of other gear by Motorola and possibly GE during this time. This same RCA 1000 head and drawer was also used by the Michigan State Police during the same time frame.
GE Equipment
GE MASTR PROFESSIONAL California Division of
Forestry Photo courtesy of Bob Thompson 
GE Mastr II WASHINGTON STATE PATROL 1977 (?)
Equipment used large cased "E" series VHF High
Band radio drawer. Dual receive.
California Division of Forestry GE Mastr II
Head Photo
courtesy of Bob Thompson
Motorola Equipment
Head below believed to be early California Division of Forestry
Photo courtesy Bob Thompson
Motorola Multi-XFL VHF High Band Radio, federal government order for Bureau of ATF, circa 1971. Uses HT-200 circuit boards, 166 MHz range. Type of outer housing unknown. Details solicited!
MOTOROLA MOTRAC
Special production control heads and radio drawers seemed to have proliferated in the 1960's for Motorola's Motrac model equipment. Here are just a few. California Highway Patrol special control heads and radios are separately shown on my main CHP Radio page.
California Division of Forestry, 1969.
QCN1019A. Photo courtesy Bob Thompson
Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources, dual radio
control head. 1963? Rear panel has a male connector as used on
mobile telephones of the era, rather than a pin-socket panel as regular Motrac
heads.
San Jose, California Police UHF Radio. 8 channel with multiple PL tone capability, 1969. If it weren't for the date marked on this head by the factory, and that I have the matching UHF Motrac radio drawer, I would swear it was a 1960-62 era head for a special T-Power radio, by its appearance! PL reeds located inside head.
California Division of Forestry, 1963 XCN6892AK SP
3 Photo courtesy of Bob Thompson
North Carolina State Highway Patrol. Very heavy die cast housing.
Used with T71LHT 42 MHz Motrac.
The above head has been identified as matching a low band 100W Motrac, type T71LHT, purchased approximately 1966 by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol in a relatively small quantity of approximately 200 units, as a replacement for some of the fleet of 1950's T51GGV series Twin-V mobiles. These were in turn gradually replaced by GE MASTR Professional radios by the mid 1970's.
MOTOROLA MICOR
Orange County, Calif. Sheriff UHF Micor, Dual Control for extra receiver. Used through 1989.
Photo courtesy Ray Grimes, Orange County
Sheriff's Department 
Miscellaneous Makers
DENELCOR, INC. COLORADO STATE PATROL CONTROL HEAD, 1968
Denelcor briefly manufactured custom integrated control assemblies for mobile radios in the late 1960's. The siren amplifier and lighting control was built into the control head. It is unknown whether any agency other than CSP purchased these. These control heads were ahead of their time, in that it would be almost another twenty years before Motorola or GE would offer integrated siren and lighting control in a radio control head, and those brands used separate siren/PA amplifiers. Denelcor later manufactured a completely different-looking head for the Cleveland, Ohio Police Department, which used a pair of rotary knobs for functions and controlled a 12 channel Motran or Mocom 70 style Motorola radio drawer.
AEROTRON NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY PATROL, 42 MHz Synthesized Mega
Aerotron, now defunct, was a long-established North Carolina manufacturer so it appears natural that the state's highway patrol would use some of their equipment. Several other state departments used the equipment as well. The Mega is a synthesized radio using bank of socketed jumper strips which program the channel information by a selection of which pin on the jumper strip is inserted into the socket. The later Mega "E" used a uv-erasible EPROM to do the same thing. It is unknown if NCHP used any of the "E" models. The "E" is black in color, the previous models are a pebbly brown color as shown below. The Megas replaced Aerotron M-PAC radios and apparently were themselves replaced by Motorola Syntor X9000's. In highway patrol service, the Megas were often used with handsets rather than microphones.
FOREIGN EQUIPMENT
BOSCH German Railroad Police Radio
This Bosch radiotelephone head was used with a Telefunken Teledux 1970's 160 MHz solid state radio package by the Deutsche Bahn German railroad authority. Interestingly, it fits neatly into a 1-DIN car radio slot as used in most newer cars. The head contains tone decoding and signaling equipment. There was also a separate handset and cradle. The D-B on the head is the logo of Deutsche Bahn. I have no idea what most of the pushbuttons do. The display is a small red scrolling LED arrangement. The Teledux transmitter-receiver is about the same size as a Motorola Motrac and is built to an incredibly rugged standard. Amazingly, these radios were left in the vehicles when they were sold as surplus by Deutsche Bahn. The numbered plug shown in the lower left quadrant is a coded key to identify the unit to a control station. The "Q" button means "Quittung," or end. The "W" button appears to mean "Wagen zu Wagen," or "car to car."
The Teledux mobile drawer covers a band of channels with 160 Mhz receive and 171 MHz transmit, as well as a rather extensive list of audio tone frequencies (apparently a tone decoder is built-in.) The RF output is on the rear of the housing via a Type "N" female connector. The gray male connector on the front of the Teledux drawer is probably the high current 12 Volt DC input. The matching connector appears similar to those used on automotive relays. It is believed that the transmitter runs about 10-15 Watts output power. It is fully solid state. The Teledux radio packages themselves were also used in the German "B Netz" mobile telephone systems, so this setup may be merely a slight modification of a B-Netz telephone.
There is some kind of interface box in the cable immediately before connection to the Teledux drawer itself. The box contains a circuit board screened with the Deutsche Bahn logo so it is apparently proprietary to them, and that board contains a relay, two 2732 EPROM chips and a Xicor EEPROM chip. This box possibly contains the firmware for operating the system. The specific unit number decoding seems to be controlled by the removable code plug shown inserted into the control head.
Does anyone have any documentation on either this Telefunken radio package or the Bosch control group? It's impossible to find anything on it in the USA!
GERMAN BMW Police Motorcycle Radio
This is a German police radio of the late 1970's or early 1980's, removed from a BMW R80RT police motorcycle. The radio package itself is missing. Can anyone tell me what the radio package would have been? It appears to have used Bosch accessories. The radio would have been about the same size as a Motorola MCX-100 motorcycle radio, but this was apparently not a Motorola item. The control connector was a DB-25 series and the radio had a regular UHF style SO-239 antenna connector. The antenna was originally an auto radio style spring base whip, suggesting a 70-80 MHz radio.
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