Pretty much a nostalgia piece for the shack.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281441186943...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Tested it this morning and it still works.
The SBE Trinidad was my first CB and what got me interested in radio to start with.
Pretty much a nostalgia piece for the shack.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/281441186943...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Tested it this morning and it still works.
The SBE Trinidad was my first CB and what got me interested in radio to start with.
a yankee living in the hind end of the bible belt
some people are like slinkys, not really good for anything, but still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
23 channel. Nice. Almost looks like the one my friends' Dad had in his garage.
He'd turn it on with the radio when he was working outside. Had an antenna on a pole outside.
Except for me and my friends in High School who used them as a party line, I doubt he heard much other stuff. We were always on 21, and he had it on that or 17. I never saw him use it, but it did work, as my friend called me on it once when I was about to pull into his driveway.
My parents had the Radio Shack "base" 40 channel version with the only display on it being the channel number and a LED bargraph for "signal." They had it in the kitchen, then my Dad discovered the thing only worked more than a mile at night, so he uninstalled his mobile and it. I wound up with it in my bedroom, the mobile went into a box somewhere. When I left home I left it behind, who knows where it wound up.
I got my Ham ticket 2 weeks after graduating (well, I successfully tested) and had "hardcopy" by the time I left for tech school. When I got my first 2m mobile, the seldom used CB in the car left it and never came back. And that was it.
I'm guessing my parents yardsaled all that stuff. I think I gave away or sold for cheap my stuff as well.
73 to all!
Joshua, KD6NIG
22 year NCT (Licenced 08 Sept 1992)
Less than a year NCG (Upgraded July, 2014)
22+ years licensed.
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I had one of these, just AM of course. Decent tho, fit in my Opel Manta.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
SBE, eh?
On my project pile is a non working, beat to shit LCB-8. That right there is a rare radio. Its guts are going in a stripped SB104 chassis. Main tuning knob (off an SB102) will be the channel switch. It'll look just like a 104 except for the lettering, dual meters and channel/clock readout when powered up. Everything red, of course.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
SBE intrigued me as a kid, because I thought I could afford one.
I ended up with a Heathkit as my first SSB rig.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
They used a 7.8MHz IF in the "S" series (SSB) and were a pretty good competitor to Cobra's and Uniden's high end offerings.
I always thought I wanted a Tram D201A or Golden Eagle MkIVA as a kid. Then I grew up and got CPI and Stoner stuff.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Didn't do much CB till about 10 years after I got my ham ticket. Nobody to talk to.
I do have a Johnson 352 SSB rig now, and it's damn decent, when I bother to use it.
Kind of fun to run it through the tuner to ladder line and the big dipole.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
I always liked the Johnson line of that era. Most all of them that crossed my bench were from cockpit error. Usually audio outs or rf PA. The layout was nice, and easy to work on. They all sounded good, too. It was a shame they went away.Originally Posted by WØTKX
Didn't do much CB till about 10 years after I got my ham ticket. Nobody to talk to.
I do have a Johnson 352 SSB rig now, and it's damn decent, when I bother to use it.
Kind of fun to run it through the tuner to ladder line and the big dipole.
A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL
My father had a brute in his 60 Studebaker lark wagon. Had a formula d in the boat and other cars. The Trinidad was his base that got handed down. My first ssh ham rig was a hw101.
Nice find. I had a sidbander II mobile rig way back when.
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