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I am interested in finding which Motorola mobiles will do BOTH 6 meters & 10 meters in the same radio.

The only one I can think of off hand is the lowband Syntor X9000. I don't know of any recent production Motorola radios that will cover that spread.

Jim1348 wrote:I am interested in finding which Motorola mobiles will do BOTH 6 meters & 10 meters in the same radio.

Syntor X T71VBJ7204AK

X or X9000 same RF section.

Or the alternative - the GE/ERICSSON/MACOM..... ORION

well almost

Motorola:

T71 Syntor X or T71 Syntor X9000...only difference is the control unit. Syntor X is analog binary control with a clamshell or pushbutton control head(s), while the X9000 control system is a digital serial bus with a 11 character digital control head with display.

As Apco25 pointed out, the M/A-Com Orion is the only other viable commerical land mobile radio that will do what you need, but the catch is two RF trays are required.

007 wrote: As Apco25 pointed out, the M/A-Com Orion is the only other viable commerical land mobile radio that will do what you need, but the catch is two RF trays are required.

If you're going to go the 'two radios off one control head' route, the Kenwood 630 and 690s will do that too, as will several of the Vertex models. So far, I've found the Kenwood TK630 to be the easiest to work with.

Go with the X9000.
I love mine.

I had the X9000 and loved it for that. The only other catch is, your antenna. Kinda hard to find a true out of the box wideband lowband antenna.

With that said, I used a Comtelco antenna cut for 52.00 and it worked without SWR issues to 33.0 (lowest I needed to go).

The Kenwood 90 series mobiles won't do it. At least, the RSS won't allow it. These radio will not allow two lowband decks on a single control head. You are limited to:

low + UHF
low + VHF
UHF + VHF

on a single head.

low being any of the three available splits of lowband.

Anyone know of the RSS hack to allow it?

The Kenwood TK690 needs VCO work to go above 52.00 MHz. The software hack is not bad at all. You just need to edit the radio data file.

Jim.

I have the Moto. x9000 and love it. Does all of the 6 and 10 meter fm.

The antenna is easy, I use a Hustler tall mast like 54 inches as a quarter wave for 6 meters with a 10 meter super coil. Works great, low swr,

I used the large tear drop mount base on the rear bumper ok a 96 K1500

GL

I have a friend that took a common mobile antenna duplexer (I think it was a Comet brand) that is intended to hook two different band radios to a single multi-band antenna. Instead, he put the Syntor X 9000 lowband into the antenna port and put separate single band antennas out on the input ports (one 10m and one 6m). It works great. For road trips, he uses Larson NMO base loaded whips. For stationary use, a better antenna can be substituted on the NMO mount.