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Just for fun from an old Henshaw's catalog...

I bought two fo them at a ham swapmeet some years ago. Both in very good condition. paid $30 for both and still have one of them. Still works. Neat old radio!!

Old tube type Galaxy 5 ham transceiver. Not sure of the antenna(s). Looks like some multiband 10-80 meters vertical ham antenna. An old Butternut vertical maybe? An old 23 channel Cobra CB radio (maybe a Cobra 21) on top with an SWR bridge on top of that. Lower pic is the matching speaker for...

Programming trunking systems can be a real chore! I am not familiar with the Whistler products but if they come with programming software it certainly helps. Often, software that you purchase is far better and worth the cost. To use the software in the most easiest way, you usually need a paid...

In practical use, you use the squelch to quiet out the background noise. You can quiet out or squelch just the background white noise. If someone is there and kinda weak you don't want to listen to but still wait for your friend to show up or listen for others that are stronger in signal...

Turner 250.

Try to find some old CB catalogs online to look through, Lafayette, Allied, Henshaw's etc. It might be hard to come up with a radio that old that is the one you decide you want. Browsing Ebay for 23 channel CB radios may help. Lafayette 525 and 625 mobile rigs were pretty popular back in 1970...

They both are entertaining offers so there is that. A high asking price may be a ploy to get people to make their highest offers right off the bat. Kind of intimidating you to make you best offer so you don't seem silly, IF you are really interested in it. If an auction is unrealistic in any...

More radios are more fun than less radios! There are several inexpensive CB radios that have weather channels built in. Probably find one for cheap on Craigslist.

Thanks for that. I don't feel like the last "kilocycle guy" alive anymore!

Maybe there is a Heathkit user group out there. One specific to the HW-101. Look for a groups.io user group. Even then it may be very difficult to nail it down. Come to think of it, look for date codes on some of the components. Pots, caps, transformers etc. may have them. That's what we go to...

Some of them seem to think POTA is contesting all the days of the week on even the WARC bands where contesting does not go on. They are fools and don't know what they are talking about. Some just don't like it because as Sheldon Cooper would say "You're having fun wrong". Some hams, just like...

Thanks. I have one of the Northpoint badge radios. Doesn't get much use. I do need to replace the lights for the meters which I have replacements for. Just been lazy about getting to it. I don't think of it as a 10 meter radio as it is more of a CB radio that is very easy to enable a ton of...

Is this the Tomahawk that's the same as the Cherokee and Northpoint CBS-1000? That's all I come up with searching.

Yes, this. What I have always done if not using Priority Mail flat rate boxes (which is rare for me) is box the item up, not necessarily sealed yet, and calculate the cost from here in Seattle to a zip code on the east coast, maybe in Florida. Once I know that cost, I know if I need to adjust...

Not exactly sure what you are asking. Around here in Seattle many "bootlegger" Cbers had old ham gear that had 11 meters already in it. Johnson Ranger, Viking Valiant, Heathkit DX-100 were most commonly used by a handful of CBers. Then the Yaesu FT-101 came out and the game changed. I worked in...

I have used RT Systems software for a couple other rigs in the past. Since it is radio specific it is very well thought out for that particular rig from what I have seen. It is reasonably priced I think too. It is less cumbersome than using something like CHIRP which is designed for a large host...

I am sorta close at 51 years. Know of a lot of hams licensed much longer than I have been but yeah they are dying off to be sure! Myself, I am 70...YIKES!!:eek:

11 meters as a ham band was not used much. It was a shared band (tertiary use) with some other concerns. Primarily medical equipment like diathermy which could wipe out much of the band when used at a nearby hospital. It was not frequency stable and pretty broadband in 11 meters so would move up...

The LSB convention on CB dates back to when there were only 23 channels and SSB was all on channel 16. Form what I remember LSB was just a bit further away from channel 17 than the USB was, and a lot further from channel 15 since there was the RC frequency between them. So less overall adjacent...