CB Radio Talk

I got a A-99 free. I bought a Cobra 139XLR at a garage sale for $5.00 and it works. I am picking up a Palomar 300A, Raider Amp, Meters, and 2 Base Stations for $75.00 tomorrow. The Palomar has no power supply unfortunately. Still, I think it is a good deal for everything. Maybe?

010 wrote:I got a A-99 free. I bought a Cobra 139XLR at a garage sale for $5.00 and it works. I am picking up a Palomar 300A, Raider Amp, Meters, and 2 Base Stations for $75.00 tomorrow. The Palomar has no power supply unfortunately. Still, I think it is a good deal for everything. Maybe?

Sounds like a very good deal to me. Watch eBay for the power supply unit for the Palomar or a cheap non-working or condition unknown one. They pop up on there every now and then. Takes a lot of tome and patience but they can be found.

Hmmmmm can't remember the last time I posted on this thread....don't wanna mention something I already have....so, I'll just go with what I picked up today.

Cobra 19DX....clean little unit, that works great for $5.00

A Sears multiband receiver...also $5.00 and seems to work great, outside where the ant. recieves better I was picking up the airport traffic and ham bands.


Mike

Sporty Mike wrote:A Sears multiband receiver...also $5.00 and seems to work great, outside where the ant. recieves better I was picking up the airport traffic and ham bands.


Mike

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I've been thinking about getting a general coverage receiver again. I haven't owned one in many years now.

lets see, 1 icom IC-f520, 2 icom IC-f621's and a kenwood TK-840
just need to buy the programming software and cables for these. anyone know where i can find those?

My newest addition, just recieved it today, Cant WAIT to run my radio and amp on this bad boy!!! Should be a night and day difference!!!!! 35 amp, 15 volt adjustable!!


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Well, I got everything home that I bought yesterday for $75.00 . I got a Palomar 300A ( 6 ) 6LF6/6MH6 Tubes ) fan runs but tubes don't light up, Raider Amp ( 4 ) 6JG6A Tubes) ( 500 W ) tubes light up and nothing else, An SBE-40CB Consol V without a mike, plugged it in and receive was excellent... a Simba SSB/2 without a mike, plugged it in and receive was excellent.
A Palomar 1000W Meter.....Worked...just didn't have enough power out of my Cobra 139XLR to make the needle move very much......Just my luck that everything needs a little work...But I found someone to look at all of it, and said maybe we could work a deal on trading for fixing....So I will just have to see what goes on...I will post what I find out....010

ICOM-7000 w/7" monitor, IT-100 auto tuner, external cooling fan, AB5N HM-151 microphone mod Black Widow paddle. All run to my computer running HRD and DM780
Yaesu 901DM, FC-901 Antenna tuner and SP-901P Speaker/phone patch with NOS Astatic Silver Eagle

Not really radio gear but I did pick up one of those magnifying lights on an adjustable stand yesterday at a yard sale. Used it last night while soldering up a mic plug and it was like clipping the toenails on a brontosaurus

A new in the box circa 1994 philipine Dynascan Cobra 2000 GTL, wanted one forever and finally ran across a guy in a Greencastle PA CB shop who has a room FULl ( I really mean FULL!) of radios tram's robyn's presidents 148's RCI' even had a Kraco new in the box unbelieveable to say the least!

I don't know if this counts or not but, I had an old ElectroVoice Model 638 I got when I bought my FT901DM and I made a nice lamp out of it for my radio room. I kept the mic excactly as it was but ran the power cord in just like the mic wire was and use the PTT to turn the light on and off. Cool project and nice addition to my room. I must say, I am pretty proud of her.

Cobra 142 GTL with Cobra CA60 Desk/Power Mic for $30 off of craigslist. The guy also sold me two other mobile radios and an SWR meter for $20.

Cool Big Dog!!! whered you have to go to get 'em?? Was the guy local??


Mike

Here's a few fairly recent goodies to post to the list of things that I picked up here-n-there. There's probably a dozen or so other things to post and I need to take some pic's of some prior radio gear--------but I've got to run my dogs and it's looking like thunderstorms any time now (!) so I better go unplug the 'ol station coax and grab a pair of collars & leashes. Boy, for the first time in MONTHS I did pretty much what I wanted to do today, shot skip, and just had a relaxing day. All I do everyday is work all day then come home and work on the house at night, trying to make it more livable & comfortable for having guests and the like. Oh well I better go----here's some radio-lover candy to check out . . .

Vintage Popular Electronics Communications catalog


WRL's 1967 World Radio Labs Inc CB Catalog Number 1


Cobra 132A Citizen's Band 2-Way Radio CB Dynascan Service Manual


American Electronics Model 95-334 Speech Processor With Compression And Microphone Gain Controls



Global Electronics Inc DX-Magnus Mic Preamp CB Power Control Head (one of two separate units)


Global Electronics Inc DX-Magnus Mic Preamp CB Power Control Head (NOS second of two units)


Global Electronics Inc DX-Magnus Mic Preamp CB Power Control Head


Global Electronics Inc DX-Magnus Mic Preamp CB Power Control Head



Astatic DN "The Commentator" Multi Impedance Version


Astatic DN "The Commentator" Multi Impedance Version



Sencore CB41 Automatic Performance Tester


Sencore CB41 Automatic Performance Tester


Sencore CB41 Automatic Performance Tester




Sencore CB42 Automatic CB Analyzer


Sencore CB42 Automatic CB Analyzer


Sencore CB42 Automatic CB Analyzer


Foxhunter 351 NJ

Sporty Mike wrote:Cool Big Dog!!! whered you have to go to get 'em?? Was the guy local??


Mike

I drove over to Moody to the guy's house. I saw his ad on craigslist. The 142 needs to have a receive alignment done to it, but for the price I paid I can't complain, the radio does have a lot of power and a lot of modulation and I had been wanting to find one for a while now.

I'm also running a want ad on craigslist for any kind of CB Radio and another local responded to it, I might pick up a few more radios from him, not sure. I had been hitting local thrift stores trying to find some deals, but craigslist actually seems to be a better bet. Btw Mike, have you ever used Dodge City CB for any work? I may take it to them.

Sorry to double post, but I want to update. Today I got a Sears 5 pin mic and an old Cobra Dynamike Plus at $2 for both. The 5 pin works with no rewiring needed on my RS Mini-Mobile and the Cobra needs to be wired to a connector but should work fine with my Cobra 29 and 25. Not radio related, but I also got a Belkin Wireless G USB adapter for $3. It should help me get a better connection to our network in my shack.

Today I was lucky enough to get a Robyn T-240D in nearly mint condition. $200. The only problem with the whole radio is after about ten mins the meter stops operating on receive signal. Receive is fine, AWESOME actually but the meter decides to stop working after about ten mins or so. Should be an easy fix. This is my first tube radio.

Sporty Mike wrote: What the Heck kinda mic. wiring did the JC Penny radios use!!!!

A four pin Cobra mike should work if it's one of their "Pinto" series bases.

Picked up a Sears Roadtalker ssb mobile, a few mobile antennas,and a Realistic 23ch Handheld at a yardsale today. Also got an old Ham rig made by Canadian Marconi Corp, all I know so far is that it can cover 3-22 mhz and has six channels that you need crystals for. No idea how to work it but I will learn

had a galaxy DX 959 (ca 2006) given to me cos it has a broken freq counter.. and all the reports i got today says its a screamer

cant wait to run a little 2pill behind it...

ill be loving next skip season

lol, i got a cobra 39 plus model cb for 5 dollars from a yard sale, lol.

it works good i think it needs a new antenna tho

Hey Foxhunter,
since my last post about the SBE Console V I've acquired a Uniden Madison in excellent condition. I'm going to post some pics soon.


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I did pretty good yesterday at a flea market tailgate sale. A retiring trucker had a combo deal including a peaked & tuned Cobra 29 LTD Classic, four mics wired for the Cobra including an older Telex Road King 56 and misc noise cancelling ones, quite a bit of heavy gauge coax, and a new in packaging 4 ft fiberglass whip with mount. Paid 30 bucks for all.

A few weeks ago I went to the local yearly "hamfest" and picked up a Regency CR-123B 23 channel AM/SSB base with connected D104 lollipop mic for $15. Both work like new once I installed a new 9v snap connector in the D104. Also got a like new JC Penney 23 channel base for $5 that the seller said didn't work... but a quick cleaning of the channel selector quickly brought it back to life.

Well, as usual, I've picked up some trade material but for myself I bought another Yaesu FT-450. It came in a package- The FT450, MD100 desk mic, an Astron 35m, and a set of Kent cw paddles, all for $700. It all had the boxes and papers and was in mint shape. Now $700 is more than I usually spend on a pile of gear but those radios are more than that new and I got all the other stuff. I'll probably sell off the paddles, mic, and supply and when I'm done I'll have roughly $400 invested in the rig, cheap enough for a decent entry level hf rig that I can sell when I'm ready. I've had 3 of these radios over the past 3 years. Every time I get one for a good price I end up selling it off because the money is good but I'll probably keep this one. It is an early 2007 model so it has the color change led option and for cb you don't even have to take the lid off to mod it- it is all in the menu.

-drdx

NICE im starting to look for towers and stuff to setup a nice beginners rig... i figure we will be having a sunspot maximum in about 4 more years thats enough time to build up a nice base station and get some really good DX this next go round =)

im going to go for my technician license this winter im looking @ study materials right now...

i cant wait