In t Bill Horne
wrote:

Of course, they've been retired from commercial service, but _where_
are they? Unless they were all crushed for the gold content, they must
be sitting in warehouses, so why don't hams make use of them and set
them up on 52.525 (or whatever) or the other FM bands?


I had a GE "Progress Line" rig (with a GLB synthesizer) and a couple of
Motracs and HT-220s in my youth, but that was back in the 1970s.

I suspect that when (relatively) cheap but very flexible ham band
VHF/UHF transceivers hit the market, the interest in such behemoths
simply dried up.

--
Bert Hyman W0RSB St. Paul, MN