Recent content by secret squirrel

Good One. A friend of the family had told me a story once he was searching for a clear channel back in the early 1980's and he flips through Channel 9 to hear a guy that sounded local trying to make contact. The Channel 9 operator was asking if someone would call the Sheriff him and a tow...

Does anyone remember anything about the Craig brand CB radios? I remember Craig Electronics; car radios, car radios amps, speakers. My question is was Craig a house brand at one time. I seem to remember Craig products being sold at K-Mart and auto parts stores. I had found a Craig 23...

I set one up before in my Subaru Forester, the square body type. I just used 18 feet of coax, RG 8X, attached the shield only to antenna mount. I do not really know if I accomplished anything other than it seemed to reduce static. It was a cheap experiment.

If you can join in. On Sunday Evening about 20:30 on 32 LSB. The Whisky Net comes on the air for check ins. The lead operator is in Butler, PA area. A good night is about 50 check ins. Just your CB handle, location and number. I still use Secret Squirrel, 321 in the Keystone, Washington...

27.555 USB. I am moving to live with my 86 y/o father. Mom passed a few weeks ago. However, its new antenna system time. Think I am going to mount A99 to the shed. I live just south of Pittsburgh.

I had used one. Sparky himself sold it to me. He said its a 50/50. I just used the Fire Up 99 for the SWR tuning and left the rings on the Antron alone. No issues. This was all back in 2007-2008. I was in a lot of hills at the time- SW PA Greene County line. A lot of people just put an one...

One item I have learned is that if it brings you joy restore it and use it. I love the sound of the old speakers coming to life. No digital processing. I have a JCPenney 40 Channel I plan to set up just a a talkback/monitor radio near the bench just to here myself transmit, no antenna...

Hope everything you purchase works as expected. The Qixiang, as an OEM manufacturer has a track record of being very consistent and the Anytone brand has been great values for radios that can be setup properly by the end user, no radio shop hands required to get operating on the air. All of my...

https://www.bobscb.com/shop/product/1125/Tram-208---BigCat-Heavy-Duty-CB-Stud-Standard-38in-24-Thread-Size-to-UHF-Female-Mobile-Antenna-Mounts/ I did change the standard Firestik stud to the bigger TRAM stud from Bob's CB. Mainly just for looks with the Firestik spring. I purchased all the...

Nice setup. I have similar on my Rogue. Just have the 3 footer on so I do not hit stuff. I used to have the 4 footer, but I torn the tip cap off on low trees a couple of times.

So that's the mod that Al at Sparky's used to make that the YouTube video where he adjusts a knob on the front of a radio and a flame goes up and down on the board. That video is pretty old now. I think it was to only YouTube video Al ever made.

Just start selling used radios as, All radios have been pre-performance stress tested in our radio engineering laboratory.

Call Bobs CB. www.bobscb.com, I order almost all stuff from them. I have had multiple vehicle installs done for me there. Its 2:30 hours from me. I openly admit. My soldering skills are only good on sweating copper pipe. They do great jobs with running coax and radio installs without...

I have always been a fan of the old school 6.5 foot Francis, or the Hustler HQ27 CB Antenna like on the Kenworth when Smokey and the Bandit begins.

I could not get parts for the RCA AM radio upright cabinet, or the Victrola. I would have loved to have the AM cabinet restored just to have a functioning AM tube radio. They ended up getting passed on to others that wanted to try to restore. I have not done any work with vacuum tubes.