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Here is the deal.... One of the two radios I just bought was a Smokey 23 "branded" radio. No tag on the back.... nothing. Possibly just a lower end product that some company threw out there just to "get on the bandwagon" back in the day. The reason I bought is... a friend has a "Smokey 23"...

Ordered a pair of old radios off of Ebay from a seller in Florida. For a whole WEEK the tracking info LOOKED LIKE it had not been picked up from the seller by Fed Ex. Today... I got an email from Fed Ex happily informing me that my package is READY FOR PICKUP. YAY!!!!!!!! At the Fed Ex desk...

I have what I am calling a labor of love to do. A few years back a friend of my son Tim (Skip... who owned Outlaws Toy Radio CB Shop) died of a heart attack in his mobile repair van while working on a radio..... parked at home. A short while later... his wife let Tim come over and take...

Today's hamfest was good in that I got to fill a hole in my bench!!! I think this one looked particularly clean and the guy wanted $120. I have seen them a LOT uglier... for a LOT more.... so I just paid him and took it home. No slug... so I still have to find a good 'H' slug somewhere...

I'm sure this request happens from time to time... I just never dreamed I would actually OWN one. Did Magnum not make something like a "service manual" for this thing??? I am aware of the content in CB Tricks but it is not quite complete. I have problems in the displays.. and there are no...

Just dropping a note for those "in the Houston area" or "those who consider themselves within driving range"........ The Greater Houston Hamfest is on this weekend Mar 1 & 2. Tickets are $10 online before and $15 at the gate. From the website it looks like the "table count" is pretty...

Last week I found a link to an estate sale being run by a local company.... and the ad included "CB Equipment". So yesterday I thought I'd go take a look. I put these on the table at the checkout and the clerk didn't even slow down..... "$20 each".

Last year some time, I met up with a guy at his house over in Channelview and he let me prowl through a van in his yard. What was special about this van is.... it was the van bought and turned into a mobile CB Shop by an old friend starting his business at a local truck stop way back in 2017...

I am a member of a number of "groups on Faceybook" and "forums on the web". I see people who "want radios fixed". I see "well meaning folks" get devolved into arguments about what is best, what will work, what won't work.... then comes insults... then comes name calling......then come the...

Another "different kind" of question. As I get older... my vision is getting incrementally weaker. I thought I would ask.... Do any of you involved in repair... use a magnifying/illuminating lamp of any kind? I was thinking of getting one to help locate those "pesky small" parts that like...

I didn't want to hijack Dan's thread.... on looking for Uniden document...... but I have a semi related question..... I know that I have looked for several Uniden service manuals and was unable to find them. The most "memorable" at the moment is a PC68. I have had many people steer me...

My brain just started wondering...... all of these products that pop up all over creation from "Workman"..... wouldn't they have a website that you could go to and "see it all".... in one place??? yeah... they do..... as you might expect.... workmanelectronics.com seems to be a live...

Does anybody have any idea where I would be likely to find an old dead linear amp? What I am wanting is a heat sink and a case... to make a high power (as in 250 watt 30 dB) attenuator for my test bench. Obviously it doesn't even have to have the board in it. I've just never thought about...

Always being on the look out for better ideas.... I have seen a number of repair vids where they are using different methods..... But what do some of you do..... for microphone adapter plugs... to inject test tones ... while working on transmit??? Mike... seems to have some little gadget...

I either need to re-cap and do some maintenance on my Tektronix 465M...or get a new scope. That is all. ;)

A long time ago I found a Tram D201A on the local Facebook marketplace for stupid low money. Initial tests showed that is works.... "kind of"!!!! But I wound up just setting it to the side to hold it for a better time. I keep looking at it.... and started thinking.... "why not now?". With...

Back to my hijinks.... I found a Midland 77-888 on Shop Goodwill. This was the exact model that my wife had in her car "back in the day". She actually used to use it a lot....but probably wouldn't anymore. It will take time for it to get here but, from the pictures, it is...

The model we are talking about is the Palomar DX200B. The problem.... right above the LOW/MED/HIGH switch is a little board with a resistor that has 8 and 2 as the first bands. A cap shorted an smoked that resistor and it LITERALLY burned the multiplier band OFF to where you can't read it. It...

I have been curious.... butI just ran across a radio (used, for sale) that touted having a 10 Khz switch. I scratch my head.... because the spacing between channels IS 10 Khz.... so.... what is the value of this? I HAVE GOT to be missing something......

Backing story: About 10 years ago at a garage sale at the end of my block... I bought a Wilson 1000 Mag Mount for $10. I have tried to set it before with just an SWR meter and it always seemed tricky... like it didn't want to behave. When I first got it... the coax was pretty ragged. So I...