What have you recently acquired for new radio gear ?

[Blue Ox2]

Got a Tram D201 a few weeks ago and it worked fine.

Last week I fried several condensors and now it
is an expensive boat anchor.

Some major Tram help would be beneficial.

[MDYoungblood]

Got a Tram D201 a few weeks ago and it worked fine.

Last week I fried several condensors and now it
is an expensive boat anchor.

Some major Tram help would be beneficial.

Condensers or Capacitors??

3's

Greg

[Blue Ox2]

Capacitors, sorry.

[nosaj]

Got a Tram D201 a few weeks ago and it worked fine.

Last week I fried several condensors and now it
is an expensive boat anchor.

Some major Tram help would be beneficial.

Condensers or Capacitors??

3's

Greg

Condensors are what the brits call capacitors. Remember condensors when setting timing on motors just a cap.

nosaj

[GREGT]

My new radio, just bought this week, is a NOS PC 122 Uniden SSB. I paid just over a $ 100 for it, but it's small enough to fit in my car and was brand new still in the box. All I need now is an amp and another antenna. This radio is very small and should work well for a small car : )

[banjotx]

Ordered a Uniden Bearcat 980 SSB, tuned and bluetooth mic from G.I. Joe's this past weekend for an upgrade in my jeep. Now I'm thinking to go with a small base station. Might be fun.

[TiredRooster]

Just picked up a new Texas Ranger FC-390 frequency counter at my local CB shop. Been wanting a freq counter for a little while and picked it up at a good price.

[Bobcat]

Technically, not new.....but .... finally coming together! Building up my workbench....

[rudy]

I just picked up a pair of Baofeng bf-f8hp radios. I haven't programed them yet. Should be great for monitoring.

[TxBulldude]

Hi. I recently foudn 2 items in an estate sale my wife dragged me to. One is a Cobra 135xlr SSB/AM Base Station. It is in the box and has all the original paper work that came with it. Manual, warranty, schematic and parts list. even has the original license request form. Not sure if it works but really want to try.
2nd piece is a Varmint Quad Power bi-linear Base Amp. An XL 1000. Again I have no clue as to wether it works or not. To be honest i have not used a CB in years and have no equipment to test this stuff. Thought about getting an antenna and setting it up, but the wife is kind not wanting me to get into any other hobbies at the moment. So that got nixed. Would appreciate any info on these things anyone can give me. I will more than likely get rid of them at some point. Thanks for the help.

[Pyro937]

I finally bought a new radio for the rig. General HP40. It really gets out there and recieve is good too. I'm pretty happy with the results.

[walker]

well if you all must know, i have a room full of radios, i mean really a room full, my main radios are a icom ic 7300, an icom ic 7000, and an icom ic 7600, it would probably take me all night to list the rest but just off the top of my head i have 2 each kenwood ts 440,

one yaesu ft 101E and one yaesu ft 101B, one yaesu ft 747GX, one yaesu ft 757GX and one yaesu ft 757 GXII, one yaesu ft 707 that only puts out about 30 watts but works good, one icom 706 MKII, and a ton of cb radios, including three cobra 148 GTL, one RCI ranger 950, and two ranger ar 3500, about six or seven realistic TRC 449, two TRC 451 one TRC 453, and the list goes on,

i also have a yaesu VL 1000 quadra 1000 watts solid state amplifier, one alpha 87A 1500 amplifier and a ten tec Hercules II solid state amplifier, i also have two each avanti moonraker antennas, one antenna specialists superscanner antenna, three imax 2000 and as i said, the list goes on and on and on, i have way more than i will ever need but half of it was inherited from my best friend who passed away about one year ago oh and almost forgot i have three texas star sweet 16 amplifiers and one texas star 667V as well

[Blue Ox2]

Holy cow Walker,

Looks like you can be starting your own shop
in the "For Sale" Forum on here.

Pictures wit circles and arrows and descriptive paragraphs
on the back.

73 fer now,

Mike

[TxBulldude]

Hi. I recently foudn 2 items in an estate sale my wife dragged me to. One is a Cobra 135xlr SSB/AM Base Station. It is in the box and has all the original paper work that came with it. Manual, warranty, schematic and parts list. even has the original license request form. Not sure if it works but really want to try.
2nd piece is a Varmint Quad Power bi-linear Base Amp. An XL 1000. Again I have no clue as to wether it works or not. To be honest i have not used a CB in years and have no equipment to test this stuff. Thought about getting an antenna and setting it up, but the wife is kind not wanting me to get into any other hobbies at the moment. So that got nixed. Would appreciate any info on these things anyone can give me. I will more than likely get rid of them at some point. Thanks for the help.

Any help on this?

[MDYoungblood]

Hi. I recently foudn 2 items in an estate sale my wife dragged me to. One is a Cobra 135xlr SSB/AM Base Station. It is in the box and has all the original paper work that came with it. Manual, warranty, schematic and parts list. even has the original license request form. Not sure if it works but really want to try.
2nd piece is a Varmint Quad Power bi-linear Base Amp. An XL 1000. Again I have no clue as to wether it works or not. To be honest i have not used a CB in years and have no equipment to test this stuff. Thought about getting an antenna and setting it up, but the wife is kind not wanting me to get into any other hobbies at the moment. So that got nixed. Would appreciate any info on these things anyone can give me. I will more than likely get rid of them at some point. Thanks for the help.

Any help on this?

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3's

Greg

[walker]

Re @ Blue Ox2
LOL, and thats just a third of the stuff i've gathered over the long years Brother. LOL i started radio communications when i was around 12 years old, i'm 53 and now hold a amateur license but i still enjoy 11 meters

[295 antenna]

So i have been looking around for a classic antenna .So im talking with my neighbor in our morning radio chat and he mentions that he has a alpha 5/8 wave. ( might first antenna after the dipole. Well to make a long story short it is now mine . It need some assembly so pics will follow.

[bcloud1968]

I have acquired a BK Precision 1040 & 2040 setup several months ago. It has been fully restored and calibrated. I just need to redo my work bench and get started looking at several radios I have acquired. I have also acquired the 3 books by Lou Franklin. Ready to be a cold weather shut in and hopefully progress through my stack of radios.

[Bobcat]

Tell me.... how long ago did you get the books from Lou?
I've tried four emails over the last three months to confirm that he is still taking orders and don't get an answer.

I have acquired a BK Precision 1040 & 2040 setup several months ago. It has been fully restored and calibrated. I just need to redo my work bench and get started looking at several radios I have acquired. I have also acquired the 3 books by Lou Franklin. Ready to be a cold weather shut in and hopefully progress through my stack of radios.

[nosaj]

It took me almost 3 months to get the screwdriver book and the only reason I got it is because I paid with paypal and got them involved. It sure is a hassle working with Lou.
Kens electronics has some good books. [Please login or register to view this link]
Nosaj
N1EBC

[Bobcat]

Nosaj,

If you noticed, were the funds taken out EARLY... like when you placed the order? Or LATER near the time that the order was shipped?

What I want to avoid is making a charge on there that "hangs around forever" and I never know if it will be taken out or not.

What I may do is put the money on a gift card, use that gift card for the purchase... then.... only one of two things will happen, 1) I will get the order at some point and all will be good, or 2) the order will be lost and I may or may not get the funds back.

I really hate that Lou has fallen on bad health times but would dearly love to have this title!!!!!

Thanks!
Bob

It took me almost 3 months to get the screwdriver book and the only reason I got it is because I paid with paypal and got them involved. It sure is a hassle working with Lou.
Kens electronics has some good books. [Please login or register to view this link]
Nosaj
N1EBC

[Lost Ram]

A while back I got a mess of 3 Russian tube 10-80 Meter amps (1KW type) and a Swan Mark 1 came with the deal as well. The Swan has spots for TWO 3-400Z but I am upgrading the whole amp to be like an AL-82 with two 3-500ZG tubes. So far I have got that huge HV transformer Amertron offers. Also on the way is the bifilar coil, new ameritron plate choke, 5V filament transformer, 90 volt bias/key transformer, and some other odd and ends, lastly the tubes should ship today.
On the russian amps all I have done is test and repair the power supplies, two worked perfect, one I had to replace the 16 diodes on the power supply board.

[Lost Ram]

It took me almost 3 months to get the screwdriver book and the only reason I got it is because I paid with paypal and got them involved. It sure is a hassle working with Lou.
Kens electronics has some good books. [Please login or register to view this link]
Nosaj
N1EBC

I use to live about 10 minutes from Kens, he has tons of stuff!!!!
Kerry- K5EMU

[bcloud1968]

Tell me.... how long ago did you get the books from Lou?
I've tried four emails over the last three months to confirm that he is still taking orders and don't get an answer.

I also tried to order the books new from Lou tried several times. The PLL and Screwdriver books were purchased in a book lot on Ebay used but in usable, readable condition for a few dollars. The Tech troubleshooting book was located through a book store out of Austin, Tx like new condition but for $$$.

I have acquired a BK Precision 1040 & 2040 setup several months ago. It has been fully restored and calibrated. I just need to redo my work bench and get started looking at several radios I have acquired. I have also acquired the 3 books by Lou Franklin. Ready to be a cold weather shut in and hopefully progress through my stack of radios.

[Bobcat]

Okay, THAT makes sense but I doubt they will be easy to find anywhere else.

Thanks for the response.
Bob

I also tried to order the books new from Lou tried several times. The PLL and Screwdriver books were purchased in a book lot on Ebay used but in usable, readable condition for a few dollars. The Tech troubleshooting book was located through a book store out of Austin, Tx like new condition but for $$$.