R 8140

The R 8140 is a mobile radiotelephone, made by IEMI in Bucharest [1]. It was made after 1985 [1]. IEMI made radiotelephones under a licence bought in 1968 from the Swedish firm SRA (Svenska Radio Aktiebolaget), later modernised by IEMI itself; they were used in industry, on the railways, in rescue services, agriculture, transport, construction, by the police and the fire brigade [1].

IEMI’s production table lists 279 ‘15–20 W’ mobile radiotelephones coded R8140, made in 1980–1985, although the chapter text lists the R 8140 among the types made after 1985 [2]. The price list gives 30,000 lei for the R8140SD and 33,000 lei for the R8140SSD (prices set in 1982) [3].

Annex III.2.15 gives its prospectus: for all kinds of vehicles, in industry, on the railways, in agriculture, the fire brigade or repair teams, working with the R 8601 selective calling unit and optionally with an automatic scanner monitoring two channels, with an optical indication of the channel carrying a message; a keyboard of six self-lit keys switched the supply, the volume (four steps), the squelch and the scanner and keyed the transmitter. It covered 146–174 MHz in up to 12 channels 25 kHz apart, with at least 20 W (version I) or 12 W (version II) and a sensitivity of 0.3 µV. The annex adds that the R 8240 was derived from it [4].