My Belcom Liner 2

I have a Liner 2, recently refurbished and it runs a nice 6-8 watts as it always did. It covers 144.100 MHz to 144.330 MHz. I bought it second-hand in 1977 as an ignorant recently licenced Class B, bored with 2 metre FM from half a dozen rocks (crystals) and one repeater. In a sense I had been mis-sold a basic 2 metres FM rig and an unsuitable horizontal yagi antenna

The very day I got the Liner 2, 22^nd June 1977,  I connected it to my J-Beam 5 over 5, the first two stations I worked were an SM and an OZ. It just happened there was a decent tropo opening, though I did not realise this. This started my then and now principal interest in VHF DX. Without that I might have been a different sort of radio amateur or given up. So thanks to my Liner 2, here I am.  And of course the unsuitable yagi became just the right thing for 2 metres SSB.

The Belcom Liner 2 is a 24 channel SSB transceiver for 2 metres. It does not have a VFO but is VXO controlled (Variable-tuned Crystal Oscillators). Each channel can be tuned sufficiently with RIT so there is effectively full coverage between 144.100 and 144.330 MHz.

The rig is essentially a 27MHz CB transceiver with a form of transverter.

There have been a lot of very rude comments about the quality of signal output. Many people were keen to suggest distortion and splatter. I think mine is clean at current power output, though I will not be using an amplifier with it.

Three cheers for the Liner 2, I say.