95% of what my brother owns as far as his station goes was purchased at Colorado thrift stores. My brother was the one who got me interested in CB. That was back in 1974. I was 10 and he 12. My first contact was made with a Lafayette walkie talkie (that belonged to him) with its telescopic antenna sticking out of our bedrooms second story bedroom window. Back to his thrift store searches and finds.
He's quite the tinkerer. He recently scored a 40 channel single side band cobra I'm not sure what the model number but he paid $12 for it. It worked fine except for it being or frequency a bit. He used another radio in order to get it on frequency and gets great reports with it. I'm going to try to talk him into starting a YouTube channel so I can share with you the incredible stuff he finds at these thrift stores. This is his most recent find. A drake receiver that came with its external speaker a set of headphones and a wire dipole for $25. Unfortunately I can't share the video of it as he's sharing them with me via Facebook messenger and I haven't figured out a way to save and share them via that form. This is a photo of the Drake. He did mention the model number in the video but I wasn't paying attention so I can't relay which Drake receiver it is but I'm sure some of you will recognize it. It works excellent and sounds great on the video that he sent to me. $25! imagine that! He actually became friends with most of the workers and owners at his local thrift stores and when radio equipment comes in they actually are nice enough to put items on the side for him and give him a call so that he can stop by and check them out. The Drake did not happen that way. He just popped into the store and the worker wasn't sure what the owner was going to price it for as it just came in. The worker put a note on it saying that Vinny would like first shot at this. And they actually held it for him. The owner called my brother and my brother stopped in the next day. The owner told him $25 sounds good to me Vinny. And of course he jumped on it.
He's quite the tinkerer. He recently scored a 40 channel single side band cobra I'm not sure what the model number but he paid $12 for it. It worked fine except for it being or frequency a bit. He used another radio in order to get it on frequency and gets great reports with it. I'm going to try to talk him into starting a YouTube channel so I can share with you the incredible stuff he finds at these thrift stores. This is his most recent find. A drake receiver that came with its external speaker a set of headphones and a wire dipole for $25. Unfortunately I can't share the video of it as he's sharing them with me via Facebook messenger and I haven't figured out a way to save and share them via that form. This is a photo of the Drake. He did mention the model number in the video but I wasn't paying attention so I can't relay which Drake receiver it is but I'm sure some of you will recognize it. It works excellent and sounds great on the video that he sent to me. $25! imagine that! He actually became friends with most of the workers and owners at his local thrift stores and when radio equipment comes in they actually are nice enough to put items on the side for him and give him a call so that he can stop by and check them out. The Drake did not happen that way. He just popped into the store and the worker wasn't sure what the owner was going to price it for as it just came in. The worker put a note on it saying that Vinny would like first shot at this. And they actually held it for him. The owner called my brother and my brother stopped in the next day. The owner told him $25 sounds good to me Vinny. And of course he jumped on it.
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