There is a YahooGroup mailing list oriented toards Tait radios at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TAIT_Radios.
If you are at all interested in these radios I suggest you join it.

Contact Information:				Parent company:
	Tait North America Inc. 15740 Park Row, Building 1, Suite 450 Houston, Texas 77084 Phone: 281-829-3300 email: info at taitmobile dot com USA Website http://us.taitworld.com				Tait Electronics Limited 175 Roydvale Ave Christchurch, New Zealand Telephone +64 3 358 3399 Fax +64 3 358 0340

Repeater-Builder is looking for additional info on Tait commercial repeaters, bases, mobiles, etc, including any sources of used Tait equipment in the USA (it's rare - I've seen exactly one mobile and one repeater in 20 years in southern California...). Because of this scarcity, I have next to zero knowledge on Tait. An overview article on what equipment is of interest to the amateur would be most welcome (and we won't complain if it's written by a dealer, as long as the major thrust is information sharing and not sales). If there is a Tait expert "out there" let me know, I'd be willing to just about turn over this page to you.

You should read this page before any of the other articles here in the Tait section.
Tait Introductory Information An introduction to the Tait radio equipment, with background, history, some model-specific information, photos, and other miscellaneous items.

Click here for a chart showing the frequency coverage of various Tait models.   Courtesy of A. Nony Mous.

A lot of information on older products is at http://www.taitworld.com/technical.
Tait has made some service manuals for older radios downloadable for the general public (as opposed to dealers, and others with special privilages) at their support website. Have a look at this web site.

T296-01 Power Supply   20.2 KB PDF
Cleaned up a little (removed some scanner-introduced speckles) and converted to PDF by WA6ILQ from a 372 KB JPG supplied by a ham in Australia.

A 13.8 MB collection of informative brochures, all worth looking at. The portable repeater is especially worth looking at.

T800-02 tone module (for CTCSS)   93 KB PDF

T800 Power Supply Service Manual   891 KB PDF

T800 Power Supply Diagram   35 KB PDF

T800 Ancillary Equipment   1.9 MB PDF

T830 Series II Base Station Equipment 136-174 MHz Service Manual   8.5 MB PDF
Issue 201 dated August 1999.

T850 Series Base Station Equipment Service Manual   1.8 MB PDF

Donations of any other manuals would be welcome, as well as articles on repeater-related topics (like where to find a COR signal or a subauduble tone decode signal in a radio).

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This article first posted 21-Dec-2005.