Anyone know what this little box is?

[Turbo T]

I recently acquired this little chrome box with some radio gear. I believe the guy said it was to tune in the antenna....maybe an antenna matcher of some sort?

 

[QROdx]

geesh... i havent seen one of those in years

yup, thats what it is but i wouldnt try to use in on anything other than a box stock, non export radio. the capacitors definitely arent rated for amplifier use

 

[1FatBoy]

Shiny!

 

[KingCobra_CDX882]

I have not seen one of those in decades .. LOL

 

[hookedon6]

gee, I bet it is good for at least 2000 Dosy watts,......

and , yes, it is an antenna "tuner"

 

[Wire Weasel]

100 watt capacity. They have a very limited range and I have seen them not even be able to tune a CB antenna to CB frequencies when the antenna was only just a little off.

So.... they are little pieces of crap. Crap somebody made to take some more money away from a CB'er. Seriously.... if I found one stashed away in a box I would hunk it in the trash.

 

[cordova lucky 13]

Turbo-T ; The one i grabed out of my junk box has a label on it . CB ANTENNA MATCHER VCB-147 ,Veritas Electronics corp. Farmingdale N.Y. In my opinion use it for parts on your next homebrew project its not a useable ant; matcher & yes i,ve tried them on different antennas years ago . later Bob.

 

[n0zna]

yep,dont run over 25 wtts through it,73 de JW

 

[Lil'Yeshua]

Ant. Matcher

I got a Radio Shack antenna tuner/matcher. I use it to optimize the receive on my TRC-428 that I have hooked up to a 9' piece of stranded automotive wire until I get my base antenna set up. I would never use it nowadays for anything serious.

 

[Turbo T]

Thanks I don't plan on running this anyways. in fact I actually wondered what kind of money it might fetch on eBay. I see a lot of things sell for more than their value there.

 

[Lil'Yeshua]

$$$$

I have a friend selling coupons they got for free on EBay. Go for it!

 

[Lil'Yeshua]

P.S. you might can do a little research on how much a new one costs and start a bidding war.

 

[RADIOOMAN]

P.S. you might can do a little research on how much a new one costs and start a bidding war.

Geez..... It's for camping.
It's got matches in it!
And it's childproof; The knobs are to set the code so you can get the matches out.

 

[RADIOOMAN]

Still learning how this posting works.
I did not intend to quote anyone on my previous post.
I just did something different and when I realized my error I tried to edit and still could not remove the quote.
So the posting was not directed at anyone in particular just a mistake on my part.

 

[Lil'Yeshua]

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison tried about 1000 times(?) before he got it right on the bulb. No offense taken