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Trip Down Memory Lane
- Thread starter Mudfoot
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I have had a few of those. Neat little rigs. The CB guys didnt like them because it only did Upper Side band and CW so not many got molested by the golden screwdriver tech.
I have two of them. It seems that one has to basically yell into the microphone to get it to actually modulate. 
Though its younger brother the HTX-10 works great.
I may have to bring it back out and try a different mic. (Maybe the one it had was broken.)
Though its younger brother the HTX-10 works great.I may have to bring it back out and try a different mic. (Maybe the one it had was broken.)
Very good SSB filter they had installed. Much narrower, than in chickerbanders.
Yes indeed, no need for a wide filter if you only have SSB and CW.
See below.
73
Jeff
See below.
73
Jeff
I bought one from their clearance warehouse in Columbus, Ohio. It was off frequency a tad. I had it hooked up to a dipole. We we're talking later that night and it went poof! I took it to a closer store and they shipped it to their repair center in Texas. It came back pretty quick and worked like a charm. All lined up. Used it quite a bit, then traded it off.
Since then, I probably had 5 or 6 of them.
I've mentioned it before. Their repair center was awesome. They fixed several radios for me. They had a flat rate. I believe it was around $35. I remember sending them a 2510 and a Rat Shack 2 meter rig. Both rigs were smoked. They'd come back all fixed up. For some reason, they'd throw in a brand new microphone. They did same thing for a friend. He sent a 2510 and got a mic, too.
Sad day when they closed up shop. My dad gad an obsession with Radio Shack. We'd go just about every week so he could get those junky free batteries.
Since then, I probably had 5 or 6 of them.
I've mentioned it before. Their repair center was awesome. They fixed several radios for me. They had a flat rate. I believe it was around $35. I remember sending them a 2510 and a Rat Shack 2 meter rig. Both rigs were smoked. They'd come back all fixed up. For some reason, they'd throw in a brand new microphone. They did same thing for a friend. He sent a 2510 and got a mic, too.
Sad day when they closed up shop. My dad gad an obsession with Radio Shack. We'd go just about every week so he could get those junky free batteries.
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I had the RS two meter mag mount antenna, I still think it was the best two meter antenna mobile antenna ever. I would use one today if I could find one.
I have the whole stack:
HR-2510
HR-2600
Original Lincoln
HTX-100
One of these days I'm going to fire up my CAD program, design a set of side plates to mount 1, 2, 3 or 4 of them then send the files off to a laser cutter for a set of each.
We have "President's Day" on our local 10M net from time to time. There are a LOT of these things tucked away in closets.
HR-2510
HR-2600
Original Lincoln
HTX-100
One of these days I'm going to fire up my CAD program, design a set of side plates to mount 1, 2, 3 or 4 of them then send the files off to a laser cutter for a set of each.
We have "President's Day" on our local 10M net from time to time. There are a LOT of these things tucked away in closets.
Don't forget the Uniden 2830.
I still have a 2510 and a Lincoln Chipswitched.
The HXT 100 went to a new Ham many years ago and I sold the 2600.
I liked the small chassis and addition of 12 meters with the chip conversion.
73
Jeff
I still have a 2510 and a Lincoln Chipswitched.
The HXT 100 went to a new Ham many years ago and I sold the 2600.
I liked the small chassis and addition of 12 meters with the chip conversion.
73
Jeff
I ran mine (2510) mobile in the early 90s with a 1/4w whip on the bumper. Worked Africa and Europe on the way to work; AP on the way home. The occasional trip south put the vehicle in the right orientation to work LATAM.
Never bothered to send the cards in but DXCC was like shooting fish in a barrel with that setup - even with just 25w.
Put up a packet node in the mid 90s and the 2510 (alternated with a later acquisition, the 2600) ran on 28.195/1200 baud for up to 12h/day for ten years without a hiccup. The only thing I did was to mod the AGC circuit to reduce release time.
Never bothered to send the cards in but DXCC was like shooting fish in a barrel with that setup - even with just 25w.
Put up a packet node in the mid 90s and the 2510 (alternated with a later acquisition, the 2600) ran on 28.195/1200 baud for up to 12h/day for ten years without a hiccup. The only thing I did was to mod the AGC circuit to reduce release time.
They ordered other brands, too. They had a catalog at the Counter where you could mail order lots of stuff. We were lucky, had two stores in a town near us. The oldest store downtown had all the forbidden CB stuff. It wasn't like a traditional corporate store. He sold the correct "tubes" and linears in the back.
He had a friend that was an electrical engineer at the local RCA plant. He would do alignments, mods and other stuff. Lots of dudes would travel a good distance. It was a good side hustle for him.
I had such a gig right out of high school (when the "boom" was in full swing). It got one invited to lots of interesting places, parties and whatnot - and was (to keep things polite) a license to print girlfriends at times.
Fast forward to nowadays, and being a guru in things PC:
You can't pay me enough to repeatedly un-fsck the average non-corporate user's computer, and I don't care how many H-wood starlets you want to exchange in kind. Juice is definitely not worth the squeeze.