Does Motorola Still make an FBO radio for Avation?

[spareparts]

I was asked last night to obtain info on adding aircraft comms to our paramedic console (made by General Devices). We would only need one channel as an FBO

The rest of the radio's are Motorola products & I would like to keep it that way if possible. Suggestions??

[altaphon]

There may be some military radios manufactured by Motorola that cover 118-138, but there's nothing with current equipment authorization for civil use. Most people use aircraft radios from Bendix/King, Collins, etc. but the best choice would be a fixed frequency unit from Wulfsberg. These sometimes come up on eBay (although most of the Wulfsberg stuff there is 454/459 MHz FM aircraft radios for the old aircraft radiotelephone system) for very little, sometimes in the desktop case that allows diode programming for fixed frequency use. Manuals from Wulfsberg are expensive but comprehensive.

[mike m]

If you could find someone at Motorola who Knows anything they would probably put on to Wulfsberg.

Wulfsberg now makes exclusive P25 radios covering 136 to 174, 380 to 520 and 700/800 in their newest panel mount radio and in there older RT5000 legacy line which also covers all legacy style public safety frequencies from 29.7 to 960 MHz in one box about the size of 2 loafs of bread along with the antennas to go with these radios.

In fact, if you're familiar with Motorola's XTS5000 line then you'll find the Wulfsberg lines P25 radios to be exactly the same.

You can check em out at http://www.wulfsberg.com

The P25 marketing guy there is named Scott Hovelsrud, very up on all aspects of aviation public safety comms.

[tvsjr]

Yup... he sure needs to spend the money for a TSOd Wulfsberg radio.

Take a look at the Icom IC-A110. It's an aircraft radio in the same chassis as Icom's commercial radios, designed for mobile use. All the interfaces should be the same, and you can lock the radio down into memory-only mode with only one memory channel programmed, which would make it pretty hard to screw up. Available for sub-$1K brand new.

[spareparts]

So far the only VHF-AM base station radio that accepts a standard 4 wire (EIA) remote control interface is the Technisonics TSC-4100/4200/4300 Series.

[Jason]

Moto does not make anything that will foot the bill here anymore. All of that product line was sold off to General Dynamics.

The Icom A110 is really your best bet, as was already mentioned. Add a tone remote adaptor for interface to your console, and your off. Its a darn good radio, and hard to beat for the price. There really isn't anything else comparable out there that I have seen, unless you wanted a real deal TSO'd radio, with a "base adaptor" etc. You would be wasting your $$.

He's not looking for a helo radio guys, just a type accepted base radio for use on ONE channel.