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the galaxy is missing the outer case and has a bunch of parts floppy dinkin around inside it. I don't know enough to know whether it is fixable or not. I'll have to look into that some more. a case/shell is easy enough to create if it is in fact fixable. (good call on the galaxy 88, that is...

most of the rest of the gear

Found my camera rear shot of "silver streak" the silver streak also has a switch on the back labeled SSB/AM pardon the messy work shop, I work on everything from motorcycles to cars to carpentry to welding to chainsaws, and I am generally a pretty busy guy. I try to keep it semi organized...

the amp is a silver streak 150. can't put up a pic right now I seem to have lost my camera somewhere in the house. there is another amp in the collection of stuff I got from him as well. when I find my camera I'll show a pic of all the gear I wound up with.

well I don't plan on buying a larger power supply anytime soon so we'll just leave the amp out of the equation, for now. thanks for the help on that mess guys. anyone familiar with the ranger RCI 6300F turbo? thats the other radio I got from him that looks like its in working order. I want...

I'm going to have to check my power supply and see how many amps it can handle. Edit: my power supply is only a 20 amp 13.8v unit. I wonder why the previous owner had both cb and amp wired into it. I disconnected the amp when I set it up, but he said he was running both... now I'm totally...

I just read all the way through that thread from post one. quite the project you got there. that's quite impressive.

just pulled my antenna down for the coming storm and I was eyeballing it, it looked longer than 18 feet to me so I measured it, its the 2000 not the 99, its just shy of 24 feet. hmm fancy that.

40A you're talking running 220v power? seems a bit much for something designed to run off a vehicles alternator.

Just basicly asjking if the ranger 6300F turbo is any good? was thinking about sticking it in my truck as a mobile.

That's what forums like these are for. so I can come dig around in your (the collective Your.) brain and use your knowledge/experiences to my benefit. Sounds greedy when I spell it out like that. But I am not always the student in the scenarios such as this, I am about as close to "expert" on...

we have had sporadic thunderstorm activity the past couple days so I havent had the gear on. also expecting the hurricane to come up the east coast so I am going to take my antenna down until the storm passes. its all disconnected I just need to pull the base screws out and tuck it in my garage.

yeah nobody, for cb supplies I am limited to radio shack or a local truck stop. fortunately there are a lot of online vendors that sell everything under the sun, the hard part is filtering out the good sources for supplies from the shady vendors.

I am looking for the ABC's of linear amps, what they do, how they do it, the pro's and cons of using them. information such as that to start, I don't really care to know how to build one or anything that advanced.

I gotta say I am liking this forum a lot, plenty of helpfull people with opinions and links to "good read" info, no name calling or pickle throwing. You just can't beat it. well thunderstorms are rolling in gotta shut down the computer. just one question for I sign off for the night. anyone...

good god that was funny. I probably would have laid it down out of sheer panic....

I have had a conversation with the wife and we reached an agreement on the antenna relocation, it started out roughly equivalent to "when hell freezes over" to after a short period of brief but serious negotiations to "as soon as you finish putting the new trim on the windows." Score...

Good, I can't wait to make my ears longer..... especially if I can get beyond listening to the trucker chatter about "There is a hottie rolling up on your left side Ralph"..... and other fascinating chatter like that.

unfortunately all the equipment is second hand no manuals came with them. I'll have to google one up if I can. but on another note, I made another confirmed clear contact a few miles further out. stretching my "known effective range" to about 10 miles clear. I was chatting with a guy on a 2...

More on the antenna: The mounting point on the garage is 9 feet from the ground, which in terms of my house which sits higher the top of our foundation is 2 1/2 feet above ground, so plus 2 1/2' for foundation and 8 feet per story, plus another 5 feet for the gable, if I can sneek a 10 foot...