[MOstang]

Originally Posted by NoDrama43

I might email him and ask if he wants to sell all the equipment out of the car. I may have a NCHP car someday.

It couldn't hurt and will be the toughest piece of equipment to find. I corresponded with a retired gentleman who procured the Tait T-8000 mobile repeaters (Angus Tait Manufacturing out of New Zealand) when he worked for the NCSHP.

My understanding is that Tait essentially designed these per the spec the NCSHP was asking for in their Request for Proposal (RFP) at the time. I was also told the NCSHP were the only ones who purchased them (as it was a specially spec'd for them). Evidently they never quite worked right to begin with (probably because the NCSHP was basically the test case) and after "working them" and "working them" until each unit could no longer be nursed along, they would get scrapped in an ultimately unfunctional state. My radio engineer contact there mentioned they should have bought the Motorola equivalent that existed at the time. 99.99% of the Tait T-8000's have been removed from the NCSHP vechicles but supposedly a few are still out there. I was lucky to get the one I have and they had to look hard and in all the equipment trailers around the state to find it.