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  1. Magic Boy

    Kens Electronics manuals

    Repair parts CB schematics & tuneup manuals from Ken's Electronics, (Wholesale & Retail Electronic Parts) Kalamazoo, Michigan in Kalamazoo Michigan advertise a number of CB related tune up/repair/mods manuals. They are called the green, orange, red, yellow books etc. etc. Anyone on the...
  2. Magic Boy

    Good Skip Day!

    Listen/call for Oz and New Zealand on CH 35 LSB if you want to get away from the noise on 38 LSB. 73's
  3. Magic Boy

    First post and new Galaxy DX-979

    ...Point taken, just in time. 73's
  4. Magic Boy

    First post and new Galaxy DX-979

    Effingham radio Darkbeer would you use Effingham Radio again??
  5. Magic Boy

    Effingham Radio Repair

    Effingham Radio It is south of Chicago yes, but about 250 miles. I've had a mobile radio let me down (not for the first time) so am gonna chuck it in the bin! It's a Magnum 257 clone. I need a fairly quick turnaround, which I can do on ebay, provided their tunes are legit. 73's
  6. Magic Boy

    Effingham Radio Repair

    Anyone had any dealings with Effingham Radio Repair, Effingham Illinois? They have a pretty big presence on ebay, with lots of good feedback, although most of it seems to be about accessories. Will be tossing a coin over a Uniden 980SSB or Galaxy 979. How good are their...
  7. Magic Boy

    Screwdriver Experts Guide - ??

    CBC International Have been waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for the new edition of Lou Franklins 'Understanding & Repairing CB radios' If this book is of interest also, release of the new edition is imminent..
  8. Magic Boy

    PALOMAR MAGNUM TX 2250 AMPLIFIER.

    Palomar Andrews Communications in Sydney sell them..
  9. Magic Boy

    Needle swings backwards, power is too low to calibrate SWR meter and scratchy audio

    One of my rigs had an S-meter that went backwards. It was a variant of the Lafayette Telsat SSB-140. Also, I think with the RF gain fully open the needle didn't go back to S 0 but settled on about S 5 even with no signals or QRM present. The backwards meter could be a reversed diode in the...
  10. Magic Boy

    Coily 5 Beam

    Gamma T-match My beam has a gamma T-match, or a version of one anyway. Here are some pics of it before it went up in the air. 73's
  11. Magic Boy

    Sirio SY 27-4

    Sirio SY 27-5-6 I wonder why Sirio don't manufacture an SY27-5 or -6? Most antenna manufacturers build 3,4,5 and even 6 element yagis as standard. I gue$$ Sirio would have to start using more heavy duty materials. BTW nearly every aluminium Sirio 5/8 vertical I see around has a...
  12. Magic Boy

    Radio badging

    Copy that, and thank you. 73's
  13. Magic Boy

    Radio badging

    Can anyone tell me what the radios in the pictures are most commonly badged as in the USA? The pictures show a European version I think, the Sommerkamp, and one of the Australian versions by Pearce-Simpson. My own one is badged differently again. I want to get a SAMS manual for it. 73's
  14. Magic Boy

    Cobra 2000GTL Carbon dating

    OK thanks. I read somewhere that the first digit in the serial number of Taiwanese made 2000's meant the year of manufacture. Mine starting with '9' led me to think it was 1989, or 1979. I'm still surprised that Cobra themselves couldn't tell me. The original owners full name and...
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    Cobra 2000GTL Carbon dating

    By chance I have acquired a Cobra 2000GTL. The radio is in outstanding condition, a lucky find. Being curious about the build date, I emailed Cobra with the serial number. This was their response: We can not tell by the serial number when that radio was manufactured, we started...
  16. Magic Boy

    RCI 2970N2 power ?

    Imagine an 'N2' version of the RHF-618.... 73's
  17. Magic Boy

    Aussie KRACO

    In the 80's I had the Electrophone CB-590 base, which looks identical to the Kraco, but with apparently more modern innards. It had the 02A chip I think. Your Kraco is almost certainly a 23 channel. So it will be the same as the American ones, which means there will be a SAMS manual for it...
  18. Magic Boy

    Royce electronics

    Royce 642 Nice setup ExitThirteen. Hope to have a matching Royce mic for my own 642 one day. Do you have an owners manual?? I have a SAMS manual, but not an owners manual for my 642. Have searched but nowhere on the net to down load one. :confused: 73's
  19. Magic Boy

    MIcrophone wireing MFJ-299

    MFJ-299 review Ahanway is that your review of the MFJ-299 on Bells CB website? 73's
  20. Magic Boy

    cb action!

    CB Action $$$ CB Action was THE magazine if you were into CB here in OZ in the old days. It was our equivelent to magazines such as 'S9' and the like. It continued in various guises until the early 2000's I think. The old issues from the original boom, many of which I have, are worth a...