I may have crossed over to the Dark Side of the Farce

[WN9HJW]

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[N8YX]

Keep the rig on 27.015 (Channel 5) and set the squelch up - assuming no local activity.

Central and South American truck drivers use it in the way our truckers use Channel 19. Monitoring the channel is a nice way to spot band openings.

[KG4CGC]

Show us the spoiler.

[WØTKX]

Needs a custom faceplate, for talk power!

Look and see if it's listed... bet you can clip a diode, make it "swing", and sound like Crap ® ... eh?

http://www.radiomods.co.nz/

[AA8AE]

Yes. I was cleaning out the shed and found an old CB radio I bought years ago.

Hooked it up and now I'm monitoring Channel 19.

I feel so sordid.

And I have this odd craving to "mod" something . . .

Step back away from the Radio

[KG4CGC]

Show us the spoiler!

[kd8dey]

"You just don't realize the the power of the dark side of the farce" - Darth

[WØTKX]

http://www.eskimo.com/%7Enanook/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/modualtion125.png

[w3bny]

Get yee one dem dar texas sweet 16 compeetetion boxes... shoot some skip. <booweep>

[kb2crk]

i think it is time to fire up the console II on channel 23 lsb..lol

[KG4CGC]

Washington baby!

[N8YX]

Dak Mark X, Tram D201A/D300, Browning Mk IV-A, GE 'Superbase', CPI-2000, Cobra 2000, Teaberry Stalker XX, Craig L-201, SBE LCBS-8 or TRS Challenger 1400...if you're going to do "vintage", you have to do it right.

[kb2crk]

i guess my browning sabre and motorola mocat 20 aren't doing vintage right either??

[N8YX]

i guess my browning sabre and motorola mocat 20 aren't doing vintage right either??
Motorola 555. ;)

I'm looking at receiver performance figures when I make those statements. Transmitter sections are for all intents and purposes identical in rigs of that vintage, the tube hybrids being the exception.

[kb2crk]

Motorola 555. ;)

I'm looking at receiver performance figures when I make those statements. Transmitter sections are for all intents and purposes identical in rigs of that vintage, the tube hybrids being the exception.

fair enough

[VE7DCW]

Dak Mark X, Tram D201A/D300, Browning Mk IV-A, GE 'Superbase', CPI-2000, Cobra 2000, Teaberry Stalker XX, Craig L-201, SBE LCBS-8 or TRS Challenger 1400...if you're going to do "vintage", you have to do it right.

Anyone remember the Stoner pro-40 SSB radio?? .....the amount of propaganda they were pushing in the late 1970's about that thing being the purest SSB CB radio anyone can ever own.I've seen one from a distance..... I can't even think of anyone who actually owned one..... another footnote to the good buddy I guess. :roll:

73

[N8YX]

Anyone remember the Stoner pro-40 SSB radio??
But of course:

http://www.cbgazette.com/STONER1.JPG


I've seen several of these at various hamfests over the years. About the only unique feature it offered was the so-called "Whistle-stop".

IMO, a CPI-2000 or TRS Challenger are more capable. The ARF2001 could have been a player in this space but not at the price it commanded.

Simple 1980 math:

$1195 for the single-band -2001 - AM/SSB 12w;

$995 for the single-band Tram D-201A - AM/SSB 12w;

$1500 for the single-band Browning Mk IV-A - AM/SSB 12w;

Compared to:

$795 for an FT-101EE, which netted you a VFO, 100w out on SSB and 160-10M to boot;

$1450 for a TR-7....which added PBT, filtering, continuous HF coverage and a digital readout. Along with 125w PEP out. And a noise blanker that actually worked.

And the rest, as they say, is history. When the CB boom withered away in the early 80's, many equipment manufacturers simply shut their doors.

IMNSHO: Had the various CB radio manufacturers come up with a cost-effective scheme to incorporate an IF notch filter and shift controls into their offerings, you'd likely see a whole lot less amateur equipment being used on 11M. As it is, the majority of the Part 95 equipment (type-accepted and non-certificated alike) absolutely stinks in the receiver department.

[K8PG]

Iam going to fire up the Browning MK 2 and my Varmit 750 on 28.025 and we can exchange personels and see what pounds iam giving ya-then get
out the Golden screwdriver and addjust the Moduuulaton to 250 % we can be freq.Kings back in 1969 I had a E.F.Johnson-Whiteface-23 channels -all tube
for a CB it worked well-especially if you switched the crystals around -had your own private channels to talk Skipland-A local Ham ? had his set-up this way!
he wasa old timer-go figure ?

Paul -Gun control is being able to hit what you shoot at. 1 Shot,1 KILL....

[kd8dey]

Washington baby!

Same main board as the original cobra 142 or Trc-490
I still got a 490 (unmodded) along with an Echoturd 2000, Dal-10 on an eagle stand.......

[KG4CGC]

Same main board as the original cobra 142 or Trc-490
I still got a 490 (unmodded) along with an Echoturd 2000, Dal-10 on an eagle stand.......
It's a good radio. Just wish it has the same quality receive as a Ten Tec.

[kd8dey]

It's a good radio. Just wish it has the same quality receive as a Ten Tec.

It may not be up to "Ham" standards BUT in it's day people claimed they were one of the best CB's for RX that you could buy. Add a Channel guard........

[KG4CGC]

Add a Channel guard........
Tell me more?
Tell me more.
Where are they?

[kd8dey]

Tell me more?
Tell me more.
Where are they?

http://www.cbcintl.com/cgfilter.htm

[KG4CGC]

http://www.cbcintl.com/cgfilter.htm
Thank you :)

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

Dozens of ham rigs were modded to do CB in the '70s era.
I am still amazed at what was done.
The KWM-2(a) was a popular radio for conversion to AM.
But THE radio that was the super CB of old was the Yaesu FT-101.
Some even came with 11 meters installed from the factory!
The output section was TV sweep tubes, very cheap in the day.
And since a newer model would come out every so often the hams would trade up.
Mobile mounted FT-101 all scratched up? no problem, the CBers would come up with all manner of paint jobs!
In fact, I have a few that I repainted blue, as the VW microbus paint jobs were just not me. ;)