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Zetrons product line is oriented towards the main Land Mobile Radio marketplace - they manufacure nothing specifically aimed at the amateur market. However, a number of amateur repeater and remote base systems have made use of Zetron equipment to resolve specific issues, and below are the specification sheets / catalog sheets and manuals we have been able to locate.
The only reason that this page is here at all is that Zetron has a bad habit of not having any manuals in any form - not even PDFs - for any equipment not in current or very recent production. Since the mid-1980s every manual has been created on a computer and making a PDF after it is complete involves one little step (and can be done in a few minutes with a free program like "doPDF"). Scanning an older paper manual costs maybe an hour. Disk storage is tremendously inexpensive, I recently bought an over-1 terabyte disk drive for under US$100 (that's over 1,000 gigabytes).
Downloadable PDFs cost nothing but server space, and not having them is a good definition of lousy customer service and a way to make past customers really unhappy. And refusing to make windows-compatible programming software for your products is an other example of lousy customer service (note I didn't say a windows application, I said a windows-compatible app, there is a big difference). Unhappy customers tend to explore their options and end up finding other / alternate manufacturers. Acquiring a new customer costs a lot more then keeping an existing one.
Another example of lousy customer service is "edited" manuals. The Zetron Model 38 factory manual below is a good example of this. The schematics are in Chapter 6, but the schematic pages are BLANK! Someone that has a community repeater (the term used in commercial two-way radio for a shared repeater) that is controlled by a Zetron 38 that happens to need a trivial repair is going to look in his manual, and find blank pages. He has a bunch of annoyed (if not irate) users that can't talk to their units. He's going to remember just how helpful Zetron was when he's ready to buy another community tone panel or other device.
No Zetron copyright infringement is intended. The only reason this web page is here is that Zetron has totally abandoned their past customers... if they had these files on their public web site we wouldn't need to.
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Zetron model 19B "Simplexor" documentation courtesy of A. Nony Mous: Brochure 38 KB PDF Schematic 452 KB PDF Instruction manual 1.6 MB PDF |
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Zetron Model 30 Worldpatch Brochure 900k PDF |
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Zetron Model 30 Worldpatch with Selcall
Instruction Manual (# 025-9431B) 1.1 MB PDF This is the later version manual |
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Zetron Model 30 Worldpatch Instruction Manual (# 025-9140P) 500 KB PDF This is the early version manual |
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Zetron Model 35A Brochure 2.2mb PDF Zetron Model 35A Microconnect Operators Manual (#025-9044s) 1.05 MB PDF Zetron Model 35A Microconnect Operators Manual (#025-9044t) 10 MB PDF Anybody have any other info ? |
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Zetron Model 37 RepeaterMan Instruction Manual (# 025-9180F.2) 3.4 MB PDF file |
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Zetron Model 37-MAX Repeater Pal Installation Manual (# 025-9376A) 370kb ZIP file containing several files |
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Zetron Model 38 Sales Brochure 61 KB PDF file Anybody have any docs on a 38 ? |
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Zetron Model 38A Instruction Manual (#025-9043Y) 1.34 MB PDF file Anybody have the 38A Brochure or Repair Manual ? |
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Zetron Model 38A Repeater Tone
Panel Instruction Manual (#025-9043Y) (with scanned schematics) 1.17 Mb PDF Donated by Eric Lemmon WB6FLY The cable that plugs into the 38A is part number 709-7112 (and the price in fall 2006 was US$35). This is the generic cable with flying leads (as opposed to one that has a connector that is designed to plug into some other manufacturers equipment). BTW the differences between a 38 and a 38A are changes to both firmware and circuitry. They are similar in functionand name but internally they are essentially different products. It's not really practical to attempt a field upgrade. |
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Zetron 38MAX Brochure 51 KB PDF Zetron 38MAX Manual (#025-9263B.1) (with schematics) 4.98 Mb PDF |
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Zetron 39 Premium Repeater Panel Brochure 4.98 Mb PDF |
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Zetron 39 Manual (#025-9113G 3.7 Mb PDF |
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Zetron Model 40 System Patch documentation courtesy of VA3KMC: Instruction Manual (#025-9136G) 1.13mb PDF Repair Manual 520 KB PDF |
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Anyone have anything on a Zetron 45? Note that the 45 and the 45B are very different units. |
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Zetron 45B Brochure 2.5mb PDF Anyone have any manuals on a 45B? |
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Zetron 48Jr system Zetron 48Jr Brochure 105 KB PDF Courtesy of the scanner of Barry Palmore we have the the complete, front cover to last page Zetron Model 48-Jr Repeater Patch Installation Manual (# 025-9362C). Richard Schiller W4RSE took the eleven individual PDFs and made one big PDF file. Note that this manual is available in two forms: Here is a single zip file (507 Kb) containing 11 separate PDF files, or here is a single large PDF file of the whole manual (562 KB). If you only need one section, like the schematic (which is in section 6) the zip file may be more appropriate. |
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Zetron Model 48B Repeater Manager Instruction Manual This is a 12 MB PDF file Zetron Model 48B Repeater Manager Instruction Manual This is a 39 MB PDF file Two different people sent in the files, one was Eric VE2VXT. If you have the bandwidth / download time / disk storage space I'd get the bigger one. Anybody have any other info ? |
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Zetron 48 MAX Brochure 123 KB PDF Zetron 48 MAX Manual 6.68Mb PDF |
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Zetron 72 Brochure 612 KB PDF Anybody have the Instruction Manual, Repair Manual or Schematic ? |
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Zetron ZR-310 Community Repeater
Panel Service Manual 640 KB PDF Usually found in GR300, 400, 500, and CDR series low-end repeaters. |
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Zetron 350 Europatch Brochure 106kb PDF Zetron ZR350 Europatch Instruction Manual 556 KB PDF Despite the name "Instruction Manual" this document has all available information, including service schematics and programming instructions. |
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Zetron 735 Brochure 441 KB PDF This unit is oriented toward European phone systems. |
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Zetron 745 Brochure 88 KB PDF This unit is oriented toward European phone systems. |
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Zetron 748 Technical Manual 1.5MB PDF The 748 is just an upgraded 745; this manual should be useful on both units. |
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Zetron "Deadbolt" Lightning Surge Arrestor Brochure / Specification Sheet 39 KB PDF This unit is a phone line protection device (overvoltage, lightning, RF, etc). Anybody have the Instruction Manual, Repair Manual or Schematic ? |
Zetron, Simplexor, Worldpatch, Microconnect, Repeaterman, Europatch, Deadbolt and probably a few other terms are either service manrks, trademarks, or some other legal mark and no infringement is necessary. As said above, if they had these files on their public web site we wouldn't need to.
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The Zetron index was initially created 14-Oct-2004 as a few files on the "Other Manufacturers" page.
This Zetron index page created 2007-03-12 by splitting off 5 files onto this page.
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