Recent content by Pioneer621

Do you have a sound clip for an example of the sound you are talking about? Curious what it sounds like.

I think some folks have a weird idea there will be some magical difference after an alignment or recap, but if the radio was working okay prior, it may not be a big difference, or any at all. If it was working okay on your side, alignment went fine, it’s likely a noise issue on his end. You’d...

Yeah, it was hard to believe something could cause so much noise. That one also wiped out the shortwave band if I recall, I had gotten a DX-394 at some point.

I had acquired a 50” plasma TV back around 2008, was a pretty expensive high end model Philips. Had a great picture, but! The noise it put out made using the CB radio near impossible, I could only hear really strong stations if that TV was on. Luckily there were no other radio operators near by...

I’m a little torn. There is something to be said for having say, a Cobra 2000 GTL, or Grant XL, Washington, even a Cobra 29 LTD, etc., with the normal channel selector and extra switch for the extra “channel”, I do enjoy that classic CB look / feel. For just basic chit chat, often don’t need any...

I always sort of wanted the Galaxy version, but that’s a lot to not even have FM. Not worth the money at all to me these days. I agree the big meters are nice for sure though.

While there were a lot of Galaxy radios on the air when I got into in the late 90's through the 2000's, both mobiles and base radios, a lot of guys loved them, they kept that same theme for too long. Same generic stuff with a new model name. The price of one today makes zero sense when you can...

I typed up a big reply after watching that video reminiscing when I got into CB, go to the comments “You must be subscribed for 1 week to add a comment.” (n)

Would be interesting to see inside of the Galaxy amp. At any rate, wonder if the CTE Mosquito schematic is similar. Probably not the same, but should be a fairly simple circuit in either of them.

My memory is a little hazy, but I think I built that one like 15 years ago and it worked okay in a 146GTL, I’m almost certain that is the same one I built. I made it on perfboard (or maybe the board with the solder pads), with a bunch of jumper wires, which mistakes are easy to do if you make it...

I agree it looks pretty typical for a lot of CB amps like this going back many years. With a decent install, I doubt the cable will move around to cause any problems. Now, if you just toss the amp in the back of your SUV / car / truck and floor it at every stop light with this thing sliding...

Yeah some of the resistors do look a bit discolored when you zoom in. I remember getting a blown smaller gold color VoCom at a hamfest for a couple dollars like 15+ years ago. I built a small four IRF520 amp with it back then and ran it at 100w peak for the CB. :whistle:

Was in the basement to look at a bicycle I have down there to see what I needed for it, and spotted the Royce off in the corner, so figured I'd snap a photo. I thought it was actually in a different area, was like "oh, there's that Royce base" lol.

My first CB as a young teen in like 1999 – 2000 was a 1977 Royce 1-621 base. Used it for like 5 years and it worked well, someone also modified it so it had 40 channels below one and had like 15 channels above 40. The power supply eventually blew a transistor which I swapped out with something I...

Not sure what you need to drive with it, and I’ve only ever used one so very limited experience; most look rather low output. I use a Esinkin BT Adapter with powered bookshelf monitors and other audio amplifiers with RCA inputs. I’ve never measured the output so perhaps won’t do what you want...