What have you recently acquired for new radio gear ?

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How did you get your last radio?

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Ebay
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Amazon
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Other Website
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Re: What have you recently acquired for new radio gear ?

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I hope it works good for you
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Ordered another Megawatt S-350-12 that will be here Monday. So now the amp will have it's own power source.
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I recently bought a mobile radio:
Tram diamond 60, with a couple extra switches .....
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A guy drove up to my wife & me in a truck stop and and "you wanna buy a radio" ? He handed me a box with this radio in it. I took a look and he said "twenty-five bucks" . . . I countered with $20.00 and he took the cash and sped out onto the highway. "Don't ask, don't tell' - LOL !
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Ez2cDave wrote: Sep 10 2021, 10:46 A guy drove up to my wife & me in a truck stop and and "you wanna buy a radio" ? He handed me a box with this radio in it. I took a look and he said "twenty-five bucks" . . . I countered with $20.00 and he took the cash and sped out onto the highway. "Don't ask, don't tell' - LOL !

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Just acquired a Uniden 980ssb.Has a scan feature that my RCI6900 does not have.I getting old and lazy;)
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I just acquired a Kenwood TS-430
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Galaxy 95t for $320. In case you don't know these, they are a 150 watt radio and the daddy of the 98VHP that can produce 200 watts. I have both of course.
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2)Galaxy 959 p5/6 mod
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4)Superstar 3900EGHP American Spirit
5)Stryker 497
6)Galaxy 95t


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I talked with Bcloud1968 about acquiring the BK Precision 1040, 2040, 1801 can't wait to get them home and set up. #buildingthetestbench
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I just ordered a 77 teaberry titan t off of eBay. Hoping it works because I don’t have any cb shops close to work on it otherwise lol
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cigar czar wrote: Mar 25 2022, 13:33 Galaxy 95t for $320. In case you don't know these, they are a 150 watt radio and the daddy of the 98VHP that can produce 200 watts. I have both of course.
200 whole watts?...that's cute....Here's my $49 Uniden 520 that kick's out around 3200 watts... :-D

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behind the back seat...

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Picked up a Filipino Uniden PC 66a on facebook marketplace locally for $5,yes five dollars America. I expected some beat up 💩 but it was practically brand new. Got it home,put it on a supply,put a 6” 316ds pigtail and coax on it,plugged in my external headphone amplifier and speakers and finally jacked it my audio chain with Gstand d104.

Put a 5w slug in forward,1/2w carrier,switched the compounder to 2x gave it some modulation,probably 10w. Unimpressive bird numbers but here is where things get interesting. Filpped the stiffy switch for pep and went to a 20w,in the corner,2x 30ish,finally on 5x the damn $5.00 radio keys 3w swings 35ish,flipped my microphone tube preamp on and fed it some more audio radio swings 43w pep. Not bad for a $5 radio that the woman knew nothing about. Someone had hands in it who knew what their way around a 66a.
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I just got from Ebay recently a
Uniden Bearcat 980 SSB radio .. and
Roadking RKCB radio .. and
A 300 watt Chinese linear .. and
A Tram 15,000 watt antenna.
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....still trying to figure out where to mount the antenna... :smoking:
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jessejamesdallas wrote: Jan 14 2023, 10:45 Image

....still trying to figure out where to mount the antenna... :smoking:
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MDYoungblood wrote: Jan 14 2023, 12:46
jessejamesdallas wrote: Jan 14 2023, 10:45 Image

....still trying to figure out where to mount the antenna... :smoking:
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Thought had crossed my mind! :lol:

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I bought a bunch of connectors and 150 foot LMR 400 coax for my Hex Beam.
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579 wrote: Apr 10 2009, 10:19 I picked up NightHawk's Galaxy 99v, that he had for sale on here. The dam things brand new. I thought I'd never say this, but I'm having so much fun on ssb, I don't care when the skip comes back.
SSB is really fun !!
That Galaxy will drift in SSB frequency especially when it is cold.
I love a drifting radio as I think it keeps you on your toes !!

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I just recently got 2 radios a new antenna and linear for my 4 wheeler.
Today I got a brand new old stock Radio Shack Model 21-524 SWR Power Meter ( 2000 watts )
Along with 2 six foot jumper wires rated to 1800 watts.
I plan to talk worldwide this summer on AM and SSB :-D

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A friend of mine sent me an old Teaberry Stalker IX modified for 10m. Can't wait to try it out, but been busy with work & life. I also want to open it up and study how they modified it in hopes I might be able to modify one of the other old CB's I have around here. I've had no problem modifying older 23 channel crystal controlled CB's but the ones with PLL's are a bit out of my league.

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I just bought a Uniden PC78LTX

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Yesterday I bought a
Texas Ranger TRE 797 ssb radio.
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In the last 3 days I have ordered a new RCI-2995DXCF and a Texas star Sweet 16 to go with it. Also have a Asymod modulation board and some RG213 cable coming. Power supply for the amp in the next couple days.

Here is my Sweet 16
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Nice stuff Beach
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