Pye MX290
256 channel prototype Home Office radio
Circa 1985. 
Prototype for new WARC police channels High Band. 
Pye lost tender to Marconi and Burndept-Cleartone.

MX290 PROTOYPE for HomeOffice inside.jpg (221544 bytes)    MX290 POLICE PROTOTYPE REVERSE SIDE.jpg (205432 bytes)    MX290 PROTOTYPE 152MHZ POLICE SYNTH.jpg (167570 bytes)   

MX290 Prototype & Repeater & Contbox homeoffice.jpg (167004 bytes)    MX290 PROTOTYPE REPEATER & MOBILE 143-156MHZ AM.jpg (123460 bytes)

3 OFF B Band AM synthesized 143 - 156 MHz

1 OFF VHF repeater receiver unit for same system.

1 OFF VHF-UHF repeater control box prototype for MX290 to Pye Westminster w15ut.
AM only.

MX290 Prototype REPEATER CONTROL BOX built for use with prototype MX290 256 channel AM set and VHF repeater set for Home Office tender which they lost in about 1985.

MX290 PROTOTYPE REPEAT CONTROL BOX.jpg (28280 bytes)    MX290 PROTOTYPE REPEAT CONTBOX.jpg (25067 bytes)


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