Pye Telecom

Mobile Devices in the 1970s

Pye Europa MF5/MF25FM

1971

Pye Europa MF5/MF25FM

A low cost VHF or UHF FM dash-mount mobile for UK and international markets with enhanced safety features provided by its front panel padding.

This modern-styled, all solid-state design reduced costs by eliminating multiple printed circuit boards and the wiring between them.

Transmitter power output 5-25 Watts.

Pye PMR2FM

1971

Pye PMR2FM

This was a very high power, high performance FM simplex remote-mount mobile for international sale.

The PMR2 was designed specifically to compete directly with the big Motorola Micor remote mounts found in American and South East markets.

Transmitter power output 60-100 Watts.

Pye M201/M202/M212 Olympic

1971

Pye M201/M202/M212 dash-mount Olympic

This was part of a large family of mobile radiotelephones which featured a number of technology innovations.

All members of the Olympic family used a central ‘motherboard’ with various plug-in printed circuit ‘daughterboards’.

Many of the circuit functions on the daughterboards were provided by thin and thick-film hybrid encapsulated semiconductor electronic circuits. This reduced the packing density considerably, contributing to the reduced equipment size.

Transmitter power output 10-25 Watts.

Pye MF5AM Motafone

1972

Pye MF5AM Motafone

A low-cost AM dash-mount mobile radiotelephone designed for the UK market.

This small 3-channel unit featured the same safety padded front panel as the international markets Europa product.

Transmitter power output 2.5 Watts.

Pye M203 AM Olympic

1973

Pye M203 AM Olympic

An AM remote-mount mobile radiotelephone, mainly intended for the UK home market.

This large remote-mount used the mechanics from the international market’s high power M206 mobile.

Transmitter power output 6-8 Watts.

Pye MDU1000

1975

Pye MDU1000

An advanced mobile data signalling unit for M200 series mobiles.

This unit, when attached to a mobile radiotelephone, was used by the mobile operator to send pre-coded digital data messages back to his control fixed station.

Both fixed and variable data message codes could selected to signify the mobile status or other information selected by the user.

Pye MF6AM Reporter

1976

Pye MF6AM Reporter

A small, low cost, VHF AM mobile was intended for the UK home market.

This equipment design, being compact, robust, efficient, with good speech quality, became very popular in the UK and was extensively used by the Eastern Gas radio system.

Transmitter power output 5 Watts.

An optional add-on power amplifier could be used to boost the transmitter power output to 20 Watts.

Pye M252 Pegasus 18 Channel FM Radiotelephone.



1976

Pye M252 Pegasus 18 channel FM radiotelephone.

The Pye M252 Pegasus was a simplex or duplex, VHF mobile or transportable radiotelephone, based on the M202 FM Olympic electronics modules.

It was designed to meet a specification from the British Army Royal Signals for a ruggedised VHF mobile, for use in the UK home defence system Project Mould.

The M252 was successfully tested against the electromagnetic pulse generated by the detonation of a nuclear weapon.

Transmitter power output was 5-15 Watts.

Pye M206 VHF FM 50-Watt Mobile Radiotelephone (International Markets)


1978

Pye M206 VHF FM 50-Watt mobile radiotelephone for international markets

The M206 was a high performance simplex or duplex mobile specifically developed for export to markets of USA influence such as Canada, Middle East and the Far East, and most of the circuit design was new work.

The M206 can be considered a successor to the Pye PMR2FM.

The M206 receiver gave the highest performance of any Pye Telecom design, and was later used the fixed station receivers.

Transmitter power output 25-50 Watts.

Pye M294 VHF FM Mobile Radiotelephone



1979

Pye M294 VHF FM dash-mount mobile radiotelephone was part of the M290 series which included M293, M296 and M294E.

The M294 was a low cost FM mobile designed for sale in UK and international markets.

The compact size with good performance was achieved by using a single printed circuit board construction and an extruded sleeve, one-piece outer case, with minimum interconnect wiring.

The M294 was one of the highest volume Pye Telecom products.

Transmitter power output 6-10-25 Watts.