These are really neat little crystal-controlled VHF FM transceivers. I scored two (one working, one parts assortment) with a total of 5 channels worth of crystals (146.52, 146.88, 146.94, and two others that aren't for repeaters from around here). There's 10 AA NiCd cells inside, and a telescoping whip that comes out the front panel. Rumor has it these will put out about 1 watt... and I believe it. Signal reports from my basement (on internal antenna) were not too great... (ok, they were awful, and the DX station "hung up" on me while I was rearranging the shack to put an amplifier in the antenna line. OK, so it's not DX if it's through a repeater, and Iowa isn't all that exotic... but for 2m FM from Madison, Wisconsin, it ain't too bad.)

The good one happened to have a Com-Spec tone board in it (I want to say it was a TS-32M, you know, a solder-pad programmable one, but it's hard to remember these things and I don't care to walk the thirty paces to look). I re-soldered it for about 3 minutes to put it on 123.0 hz, and all is well... except that the internal battery charger doesn't seem to want to charge dead-dead (i.e. NEW, uncharged) NiCd cells in the radio. It's going... slowly, I finally popped the cells out and put them in a regular-style charger for the initial charge... we'll see how well that works.

(10-2-2) Whoohoo! The TR-22's NiCd's are charged, and after leaving them in the radio for a couple three days, they're dead. Something is draining the batteries when the radio is off... not too happy. It's on the internal charger right now, maybe that will at least be able to recharge the batteries.