motorola pye
Three decades of police communication are represented in this photo (taken with the flash) of six radios - all of them body worn. The one at the back with the crudely chopped off antenna is the oldest - a Pye Pocketfone 70 dating from 1971 and, while was used by bus inspectors in West Yorkshire, most police forces (including the City of London) did use it.
The one next to it is a Pye PFX dating from 1984 and was the first synthesised multichannel police radio, being used by most forces including the British Transport Police and Customs & Excise, as well as the fire service.
It was also relatively cheap as well, costing me £16.50 and came with a fist mike, enabling it to be body worn and the reason why it towers over the PF85 next to it is because it's fitted with a high-capacity battery, which incidentally is past being rechargeable. The PF85 next to it was the last handheld/bodyworn radio to carry the Pye name before Philips (or Royal Philips Electronics of Eindhoven to give the Dutch company its proper name) took over Cambridge-based concern.
In front of the Pye trio are two Motorola MTS 2000s, although the first one is a Flashport (serial number 705583) It may have a sticker saying "Property of British Transport Police", but I'm not so sure because the channels seem to suggest it was used by the Met. Back in September, that cost me £24.50 and, unlike a similar radio I got last May, you can hear the squelch. As for the fist mike attached to it, well, I had to buy that separately. The one next to that is similar but an MTS 2000E and cost me £37 last May but was the biggest waste of money ever, because although the seller assured me that I could pick up the police channels already on it once I got the battery charged, when I finally got the battery charged (because the charger took bloody ages to arrive) I could hear fuck all!
Finally, the one on the right is my cheapest ever radio to date...a Motorola MT 700. I bought this at a radio sale at Hack Green Nuclear Bunker last year and I think the fact that it was ex-Transport Police influenced me. Like most old body worn radios with detachable mikes, the fist mike is screw-on, although it doesn't have a battery. Never mind the Transport Police, I think these were used by British Rail, because in a photo in an old BR clothing guide from 1991, a member of the station staff is seen using one.
motorola pye
Three decades of police communication are represented in this photo (taken with the flash) of six radios - all of them body worn. The one at the back with the crudely chopped off antenna is the oldest - a Pye Pocketfone 70 dating from 1971 and, while was used by bus inspectors in West Yorkshire, most police forces (including the City of London) did use it.
The one next to it is a Pye PFX dating from 1984 and was the first synthesised multichannel police radio, being used by most forces including the British Transport Police and Customs & Excise, as well as the fire service.
It was also relatively cheap as well, costing me £16.50 and came with a fist mike, enabling it to be body worn and the reason why it towers over the PF85 next to it is because it's fitted with a high-capacity battery, which incidentally is past being rechargeable. The PF85 next to it was the last handheld/bodyworn radio to carry the Pye name before Philips (or Royal Philips Electronics of Eindhoven to give the Dutch company its proper name) took over Cambridge-based concern.
In front of the Pye trio are two Motorola MTS 2000s, although the first one is a Flashport (serial number 705583) It may have a sticker saying "Property of British Transport Police", but I'm not so sure because the channels seem to suggest it was used by the Met. Back in September, that cost me £24.50 and, unlike a similar radio I got last May, you can hear the squelch. As for the fist mike attached to it, well, I had to buy that separately. The one next to that is similar but an MTS 2000E and cost me £37 last May but was the biggest waste of money ever, because although the seller assured me that I could pick up the police channels already on it once I got the battery charged, when I finally got the battery charged (because the charger took bloody ages to arrive) I could hear fuck all!
Finally, the one on the right is my cheapest ever radio to date...a Motorola MT 700. I bought this at a radio sale at Hack Green Nuclear Bunker last year and I think the fact that it was ex-Transport Police influenced me. Like most old body worn radios with detachable mikes, the fist mike is screw-on, although it doesn't have a battery. Never mind the Transport Police, I think these were used by British Rail, because in a photo in an old BR clothing guide from 1991, a member of the station staff is seen using one.