Storno 6000

The STORNO 6000 Series mobile was probably the most flexible and well designed PMR set of it's day. It's completely over the top in every aspect. It auto-tunes itself to the selected frequency, it's got all sorts of fancy performance bells and whistles, in fact even it's "bell and whistle" isn't a simple piezo buzzer but a fully polyphonic sound system. You can play music on it... This radio outperforms many modern sets except for a couple of little niggles:
The only downsides to this radio are that whilst it has a highly visible gas discharge remote display it's only one line, which isn't very flexible. Programming the "6000" requires an EEPROM blower or using a programming key and the front panel which is not for the faint-hearted. That being said, this radio is a must - if you can find anyone willing to sell you one.

If you have one, then all you need to identify and program it is in the links below.

• It's all here (what little there is):
  http://oh3tr.ele.tut.fi/english/modifications.html#storno
• The Storno Community web site has a very informative set of pages on the 6000-series: www.storno.co.uk. A good source of information on all things Storno and a Web Forum as well. What more would you want?