Recent content by guitar_199

Amen to that!!!! Having to wage war with magnifying hoods to see is bad enough!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

I wound up getting it (the 3 book set).... actually, my oldest son knew I wanted the set so he got it for me for Christmas several years ago. I am so glad I did! I have read sections of it like a "novel". This is absolutely a "one of a kind" book... I have never seen another with such...

Thank you Mike. THAT is pretty much what my "mental picture" looks like. Much appreciated!

Is your old web content still available anywhere? Every link I have tried on this thread fails..... Thanks!!!!!! Bob

Mike, I have never modified a radio to accept an electret. Is the idea to 1) add the resistor to tie power to the audio line, and 2) the cap is to pick the mic audio off of the audio line and pass it on to mic amps? I'm guessing so ... but it never hurts to ask....

Thanks for that. What makes me look so bad is..... 1. I did scan through and totally missed it, and 2. When I followed THIS LINK back to the original post... I see that I even COMMENTED on it back then!!!!!! Sheeeeeesh!!!!!! Thanks to the both of you!!!!!! Bob

Dan, I hate to ask (since I am unable to help on these SAMS anymore).... But if you have CB# 132 Could you see if that volume has a Grand Prix D-1325RF and if so.... copy that one for me please? I got a hint today that THAT radio is a carbon copy of an old "Smokey 23" radio that belongs to a...

I hope you all don't mind... but it kind of IS another part of this "CB world" we are in...... So far I have: JC Penney 6247 - No RX or TX.... AM/USB/LSB none of the above. Not with internal OR external speaker DO...

As it turns out... the protection diode appears to be shorted on this one... (low ohms BOTH ways across power. I scanned over that procedure you are talking about and it actually makes circuit changes inside the radio. But I really would not have expected to use a case screw for power supply...

I am just going through a bunch of my acquired radios to catalog the various illnesses that they may have and one is Johnson 123A. What I ran in to is certainly not a show stopper... For power, on the rear there is a little red plastic fitting that appears to hold a male spade lug... inset a...

Thee AND me both!!!! I come in with questions every now and then..... I'll be happy if, someday, I can give some answers!!!!!!!!!

Suburban area about 17 miles east of Houston, TX. Sadly.... completely civilized. To this point... I have made good on my promise to NEVER live in an HOA. At least I can say that.

:) I don't know that it will ever become an income source for me. I'd have to be good at it first... and I am just trying to make ME happy that I can start getting into it. Since i moved into operating system software back in the mid 80s, I lost a LOT of ground in building "hands on...

... I promise I will shut up after this!!!!! I put two radios on here tonight for giggles. A really nasty looking 40 channel Cobra 29 (not GTL or LTD... just.... 29) and a 23 channel Cobra 21. This pic has the 21 on at the time. RCV test works fine. The pic is TX test and the Bird, the SA...

Very nice setup! Much nicer looking than mine..... at the same time... I am happy to have this bench at this point! :)