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Bummer. Ranger will likely tell you to ship it to Chris @ Superior CB for warranty repair. 73 Jeff

Fact of life. I worked in food processing dealing with fruit juice concentrates and extracts for many years. Long ago running fresh grapes for grape puree through a sorting line required 12 employees per shift, six on each side of the sorting conveyor to remove stems and off color product, and 8...

Not bad for a 50 year old rig, 1975 and still going. I dont know if the radios we are buying today will still be working 50 years from now. 73 Jeff

Try it barefoot, might surprise you. I used to work DX with a 23 channel Midland and a mag mount. 73 Jeff

Check this out https://earthsky.org/sun/sun-news-activity-solar-flare-cme-aurora-updates/ 73 Jeff

Huh? 73 Jeff

Really? 73 Jeff

Found this site with all the old Allied catalogs archived. Man I remember drooling over these things in my youth. https://alliedcatalogs.com/index.htm#google_vignette 73 Jeff

When I was young.... The Central Valley Cb club, the jacket patch had a bumble bee holding a microphone, c bee'rs....ok corney but it was a good group. Weekend BBQ's, breaks, swap meets, group yard sales, fund drives. It kept a few kids out of trouble by keeping them busy doing radio stuff. It...

For those around Southern CA. 73 Jeff

Ads help fund the expense of hosting the forum, software upgrades ECT. The Admin staff here has volunteered countless hours of work over the years helping build and maintain the site. A premium membership makes ads go away, as does software easily found on the internet, tho many users here have...

Actually Mike is a member here you can send him a Private message by clicking on his name and selecting start conversation. @Klondike Mike And you could ask Dan if he has the correct Sam's in his thread. The PC 122 is a good little compact radio well worth saving. 73 Jeff

Yep, new old stock, but it's still be sitting in a box for 40 years. I bought my last NOS tubes over ten years ago from a well know retailer and had to fight to get two of them replaced. One lasted about ten seconds the other was shorted on arrival because it had a blog of solder floating around...

The sad part is Justin learned a lot from Bill, he could work on radios and do a good Job if he focused on it, there were other problems that lead him down that road and it was unfortunate. I never did meet Charlie face to face but we talked on the phone often, he would talk your ear off. The...

That's sad news Jim, sounds like you got to it quickly, hopefully it all survives. 73 Jeff

I have used the HG1969 in several radios with no issues, they were basically stock radios with no hot rod mods. 73 Jeff

They made a chrome version as well, see below. That's the first time I have seen a + model Jackson. Very well could be Photoshop but it follows the form they are using currently. And we know they love re issuing new radios with old names. 73 Jeff

A new President Jackson II+ mobile? 73 Jeff

The E Mail addy above geno1966@gmail 73 Jeff

NTE never really manufactured transistors, they bought in bulk and put there own number on them. They were the cross reference kings with catalogs of manufacturers part numbers and the NTE equivalent number. They were not always a exact replacement but a device that " should be close enough"...