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i had the t240d back in early 80s with 50 foot tower and moonraker 4s and extra channels made contacts all out west in my 70 monte carlo i had the colt midnite special 102 whip and extra channels in the evenings going home made many contact skip that colt fit under the dash like it was made for it
the 102 ihave on my pickup it is a antenna specialist i bought in 1975 for 9.99 at a shop in ky,,, the spring cost me 5 at a government auction,,, came off a state car,,,,very heavy,,
early 70s working farms in texas trucks and tractors had cb to call for fuel and seed,,,, got me a cheap sw portable and went from that,,got my first cb of my own in 1974, licensed and all,, johnson 101 and 102 whip
years ago locally here there was a guy with a echo tape machine he had got it from a recording studio back in the late 1970s i had a realistic mic mixer with echo, wired a 4 pin plug and with batteries used it till slide controls gave out
here is my tweety bird key up and noisemaker with echo turned on,,, i have had this closw to 30 years now,,, whoever made it did it dead bug style and shrink wrapped it,,
that is a no ground antenna,, used a lot on rv and motorcycles,,, it is mounted with whip to ground and moving the coax connection up or down to adjust swr,,,
for that many bands i would use a discone type antenna,,,, i use a hustler mcx and it works great here in central florida,, there are some other brands,,, just my thoughts,,,,
from my understanding, the trc485 is a cb that can be opened up out of band,, the htx 10 is a 10 meter radio that to expand to cb ya have to change the cpu,, radio shack and others at the time were getting rough shod over radios that could be easily converted to cb,, so made it impossible to...
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