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Technical Information on Equipment Maintained by Mike Morris WA6ILQ Formerly Maintained by Robert Meister WA1MIK I know nothing about this equipment! Click on the logo or here for the main Tait USA web site

Contact Information:				Parent company:
	Tait North America Inc. 15342 Park Row Blvd. Houston, Texas 77084 Phone 281-829-3300 http://www.taitradio.com				Tait Electronics Limited 175 Roydvale Ave Christchurch, New Zealand Telephone +64 3 358 3399 Fax +64 3 358 0340

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 the person wants to remain anonymous (as many manufacturers employees want to) that's alright too. If there is a Tait expert "out there" let the page maintainer know, I'd be willing to just about turn over this page to you. There is a Groups.io mailing list oriented toards Tait radios at https://groups.io/g/tait. If you are at all interested in these radios I suggest you join it. If there is a Tait new or used equipment seller that would like to do some mail-order business with USA amateurs please let the author know. I can put a pointer to you on this web page. There is a real lack of mobile and handheld equipment that covers 218-225 MHz or the 1240-1300 MHz band, plus I know of more than one multi-repeater system whose members could use a 2m or 440 radio with the mobile voting feature (described below).

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.

A lot of information on older products can be found at http://support.taitradio.com/home.
Tait has made some service manuals for older radios downloadable for the general public (as opposed to dealers, and others with special privileges) at their support website.

Locally Downloadable Manuals:

	A 4 MB collection of informative brochures, all worth looking at. The portable repeater is especially worth looking at.
	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.
	T355 VHF Receiver   1.4 MB PDF
	T356 VHF Transmitter   4.8 MB PDF
	T800 backplane module   308 kB PDF
	T800 rackplane interface module schematic   13 kB PDF
	T800-02 CTCSS module   93 kB PDF
	T800-02 CTCSS module Technical Note 566   589 kB PDF
	T800 Power Supply Service Manual   891 kB PDF
	T800 Power Supply Diagram   35 kB PDF
	T800 Ancillary Equipment   1.9 MB PDF
	T800 Series II Ancillary Equipment service manual, Part 1 of 2   1.8 MB PDF Issue 101 dated May 1998.
	T800 Series II Ancillary Equipment service manual, Part 2 of 2   2.4 MB PDF
	T830 Series Base Station Equipment service manual   3.2 MB PDF Issue 100 dated February 1996.
	T830 Series II Base Station Equipment 136-174 MHz Service Manual   8.5 MB PDF Issue 201 dated August 1999.
	T835 136-174 MHz Receiver Manual   14.8 MB PDF Issue A dated January 1991.
	T837 136-174 MHz Exciter Manual   11.6 MB PDF Issue A dated January 1991.
	T838 136-174 MHz Power Amplifier Manual   5.1 MB PDF Issue A dated June 1991.
	T850 Series Base Station Equipment Service Manual   1.8 MB PDF
	T855 Audio Processor schematic   146 kB PDF Looks like it's part of the T850-series equipment manual.
	T855 RSSI Circuit   857 kB PDF Donated by Steve Reining VK3UJ.
	T860 Series II Base Station Equipment (220-285 MHz) Service Manual   2.7 MB PDF
	T860 Series II Base Station Equipment (220-285 MHz) Diagrams   2.6 MB PDF
	T860 Series II Base Station Equipment Service Manual Addendum   8 kB PDF
	T860 Series II Base Station Equipment Service Manual Revisions   15 kB PDF
	TM8100 and TM8200 mobile radio service manual   20.7 MB PDF
	Tait Programming Interface (T700/2000/ORCA) Schematic Diagram   50 kB PDF
	Tait TB8100 Base Station Stuff   57.7 MB ZIP file Contains documentation, firmware, and software for a March 2009 maintenance release. We have no idea what any of this is, as it came anonymously, probably from a CD. Download the file and unzip it, then see what's in there.
	There's about 3GB of additional Tait information that was sent to repeater-builder anonymously on a DVD. It's stored at our sister-site that can be found here.

Specifications and Sales Brochures:

	Spec sheet for the TB8100 series base / repeater station 540 kB PDF file.
	Spec sheet for the TB2100 series base / repeater station 941 kB PDF file.
	Spec sheet for the TB9100 series base / repeater station 515 kB PDF file.
	Sales brochure for the transportable repeater based on the TB8100 and TB9100 stations 494 kB PDF file.

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.

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