Up one level Back to Home | Information and Modifications for the Mitrek and Motrek mobile radios and the Mitrek or Motrek-based Super Consolette tabletop base station Compiled by Mike Morris WA6ILQ Web page maintained by Robert Meister WA1MIK I know nothing about this equipment so please don't ask! |
Information common to the Mitrek and the MSR2000
Channel elements for the Mitrek and MSR By Mike Morris WA6ILQ The Mitrek and the MSR2000 are crystal-based radios, and the crystals are installed in self-contained oscillator/tripler plug-in modules called Channel Elements. Earlier products used crystals, or crystals in miniature ovens. Here's why: Why should you really spend $50 to re-crystal a channel element or ICOM?. |
The replacement microphone coiled cord for the Mitrek mobile, the MSR2000 station, and several others is part number 083731M01. Yes, the MSR station uses a mobile microphone as a test microphone. |
Mitrek Mobile Radios
Mitrek Model and Chassis Numbers Identifying the better Mitrek Model and Chassis Numbers By Mike Morris WA6ILQ This article also contains some info on the 'Mitrek Plus' radios. |
Mitrek Parts Catalog |
Mitrek low-band service manual 6881045E65-O Donated by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY. 7 MB PDF file. |
A conversion of the Mitrek VHF low-band mobile to 6 meters By Wes Nicholas KD3IJ |
Another conversion of the Mitrek VHF low-band mobile to 6 meters By Tom Herman N1BEC/7 |
Additional helpful info and manual scans useful to the above two mods By Eric Lemmon WB6FLY |
Tuneup of the low-band Mitrek (Including coil presets on the RX-1 and TX-5 pages) Courtesy John Clark KI4AWK RX-1RX-2RX-3RX-4RX-5TX-1TX-2TX-3TX-4TX-5 |
Tuneup of the low-band Mitrek receiver (Including coil presets) Full width page scan courtesy of by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY. 858 kB |
Tuneup of the low-band Mitrek transmitter (Including coil presets) Full width page scan courtesy of by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY. 2.4 MB |
Conversion of the Mitrek VHF high-band Mitrek mobile to repeater service By Peter Harrison AA1PL |
Tuneup of the high-band Mitrek radio (4 pull-out pages covering both receiver and transmitter, including coil presets) Full width page scan courtesy of by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY. 1.6 MB |
Conversion of the Mitrek VHF or UHF mobile to a repeater Courtesy Doug Spreng W7MCF |
Yet another conversion of the Mitrek VHF or UHF mobile to a repeater Courtesy Lou Harris N1UEC. (offsite link) |
Conversion of the Mitrek UHF mobile to full duplex link or repeater By George Zafiropoulos KJ6VU and the Sierra Radio Association |
Conversion of the Mitrek 406-420 MHz 30 watt mobile for 420 MHz link service By the Cactus Radio Club, Inc. 110 kB PDF file. |
Motorola Mitrek conversion to a repeater or link radio (offsite link) Karl AK2O and the Spokane Repeater Group have a different take on converting the Mitrek. Karl's writeup builds on Mike's interfacing article and goes much further, with some serious re-engineering towards optimizing it for packet, or for point-to-point linking. Well worth reading and printing for your Mitrek documentation binder. |
Alignment of the UHF Mitrek Receiver (431 kB)Transmitter (583 kB) Alignment instructions from the manual - full width scans by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY |
Tuneup of the UHF Mitrek ReceiverTransmitter Courtesy of George Zafiropoulos KJ6VU and the Sierra Radio Association |
Interfacing the Mitrek mobile radio to your repeater controller (over 175 kB of text on over 50 pages, with lots of photos) By Mike Morris WA6ILQ Includes an introduction, interconnections, COR/COS, repeat audio, MICOR squelch, PL and DPL boards, duplex mods, cabling, interfacing, cooling modifications, and mounting hints. This info will also help those that are setting up a Mitrek as a beacon radio. Just ignore the audio input (or short it to ground). Until you add modulation a dead carrier from a FM transmitter is the same as one from an AM transmitter. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mitrek HLN4181 PL Board Information By Mike Morris WA6ILQ Technical secrets of the Mitrek HLN4181 reedless PL Board, the TRN4224 tone element, plus some notes on the HLN4020 reed board. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mitrek HLN4181 PL Board Schematic 840 kB PDF of a scan of the schematic sheet from the Mitrek mobile manual. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mitrek HLN4020 dual reed PL Board Schematic and PCB Layout 793 kB PDF. This board will let you alternately encode one tone and decode a different tone, selected by the state of the PTT line (sometimes called 'split tones'). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mitrek HLN4011 Digital PL Board Schematic 733 kB PDF. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mitrek HLN4011 and YLN4011 Digital PL Board Basic Information The YLN4011 is a redesign of the HLN4011 to allow multiple codes. Does anyone have any documentation on it? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mitrek TLN5730 DPL Two Code Adapter Schematic 205 kB PDF. This board allows the above DPL board to encode one DPL code and decode another, sometimes called 'split codes'. However this board is not full duplex - it won't let you encode and decode simultaneously, the codes are switched by the PTT line. If you need simultaneous encode and decode then forget the TLN5730, use the HLN4011 board as the decoder and a Com-Spec DPL board as the encoder. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interfacing a KPC-9612 to a Mitrek By W9ZGS... an old write-up that was found abandoned. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A better squelch for the Mitrek Using a MICOR squelch chip in the Mitrek; Courtesy of SEITS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mitrek bottom plate (the mounting plate) is a part number HLN4034C. The new price in 2006 was about $29. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mitrek (and the previous mobile designs: the Mocom-70, the Motran and the Motrac) all use a variation on a plug-in relay connector (pin 13 is removed) as a metering socket. Here's a photo of the metering plug, and a diagram of the socket. Photo and diagram courtesy of Eric Lemmon WB6FLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mitrek mobile radio is a nice package for making a portable repeater. The domed lid that was used on the 12-channel version makes a nice space for an interfacing board containing volume and squelch pots and small controller board like an ICS or a NHRC. The holes in the chassis that were used to mount the 12-channel board can be used to mount those boards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I think that these current draw values are a worst-case scenario. However, remember that all of the Mitrek transmitters are rated at a 20% duty cycle, and I suspect the power supplies are similar. The current draw (in amps) is:
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Mitrek Tabletop Base Station: ('Super Consolette')
The 'Super Consolette' tabletop base station is essentially a desktop cabinet that contains a mobile radio chassis, one of five different power supplies, a speaker, the control head components, and any options like channel-scan, a metering kit, an alert tone generator, a wireline remote control card, etc. |
The documentation on the tabletop base is manual number 6881040E80-A which is no longer available from Moto, but is available here as an 11.8 MB PDF download courtesy of Eric Lemmon WB6FLY. Note that you need the appropriate mobile radio manual (low-band, high-band, UHF or 800 MHz) to go along with it. |
The 'Super Consolette' User's Guide is manual number 6881159E69A - click to download the 196 kB PDF. If you have an IQ higher than egg-white you don't need it. |
Mitrek DC Metering kit Extracted by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY. 120 kB PDF file. |
Connections to the Mitrek tabletop base terminal strips Plus a few other tabletop notes... By Mike Morris WA6ILQ |
Base microphone documentation: TMN1004A, TMN1005A, TMN1012A, TMN1013A, TMN1014A, TMN1015A and TMN1023A 711 kB PDF |
Base microphone documentation: TMN1004B and TMN1005B 836 kB PDF |
Motorola used the same outer housing for the Motrac / Motran-based stations and the Mitrek-based stations; all that was different was the dye in the plastic: the Motrac / Motran-based stations were a brownish-tan and the Mitrek was black. The peel-and-stick label kit part numbers are 5483327G01 (Tan) or -02 (Black). |
TRN6125A and TRN6703A Electronic Clock Kit 508 kB PDF The 6125 is for the Super Consolette (Mitrek) and the 6703 is for the other consolettes. I'm pretty sure that the only difference is color of the dye in the plastic. |
The HPN1001A and HPN1002A power supplies are the low-power supplies and were used in the 60w low-band stations, the 40 and 60w high-band stations, and the 30 and 50w UHF stations. The HPN1001 was 120v 60Hz only, the HPN1002 was designed to be jumperable for 120v, 220v or 240v AC and the transformer could handle 50 or 60Hz. |
The service manual says that the 60 watt low-band or high-band station draws 15 amps on transmit, the 50 watt UHF station draws 19 amps. |
The HPN1000A and HPN1003A are the high-power supplies and were used in stations where the transmitters drew up to 30 amps. The HPN1003A was 120v 60Hz only, the HPN1000A was designed to be jumperable for 120v, 220v or 240v AC and the transformer could handle 50 or 60Hz. |