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Post by dishwolf359 on Jul 11, 2007 18:33:12 GMT -5
What kind of power supply did he use on the Ark radio? Tombstone Solar cells... ;D
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Post by BionicChicken on Jul 11, 2007 21:19:04 GMT -5
That many animals..............hmmmmmmmmmmmm........I'd say methane powered.
BC
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Post by Joe on Jul 14, 2007 9:58:52 GMT -5
Sounds like you know a little about methane power. Must come from eating too much spicy food.
BT-159
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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Jul 15, 2007 8:08:16 GMT -5
Getting back to the oldest radio subject, besides my Gonset G=11, I'm now working on my Johnson Messenger white face. The radio works fairly well and puts out 5 1/2 watts with wicked modulation. Someone has cut off the original ice cream cone mic so I installed a four pin connector in the bottom center of the front panel and will wire it like a Cobra. I'm also going to do away with the Motorola style antenna connector and put in an SO-239 type. I know that these modifications will reduce the value but I have no plans to sell the radio. I had to replace the final output tube because it was missing and the thing is about two KC's low on frequency but I haven't put the screwdriver to it yet. Before I fire it up again I need to take it to my friend's auto body shop up the street and blow all of the metal shavings out of it from drilling the mic connector hole, ha, ha.
Tombstone
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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Jul 20, 2007 8:24:36 GMT -5
My Johnson Messenger White Face came out nicely. The four pin mic plug that I installed looks factory and now can be wired for a standard four pin Cobra style. I had to replace the final tube and peak the transmitter and aliggn the receive. It talks like a bear with a cheap stock mic. Someone had the crystals mixed up so I straightened that out but still have room for two more channels, I'm searching my crystal stash now. It was transmitting about two KC's low but all I could get by adjusting was about 1/2 KC higher, the old crystals must have drifted a little. It's on the shelf all cleaned up and looking pretty.
Tombstone
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Post by crazybob on Jul 20, 2007 10:20:32 GMT -5
That's great, Tombstone. The first cb I ever saw, besides wt's, was a Johnson Messenger White face, in my grandfathers '61 Chevy pick-up truck. It had the banana/cone mic. We used channel 9 & 11. His call sign was KKG-2635. It was around 1962.
His base was a Sonar Model G with a super mag (looking) antenna. I still have both radios packed away. They need rapairs. One day I'll get them back on the air.
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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Jul 20, 2007 17:04:21 GMT -5
Restore them up, Bob. No use letting cool old rigs set around, trouble is that it's usually expensive but consider that the cost of a doctor's prescription for the "disease", ha, ha. I have that Gonset G-11 that I posrted about, probably hasn't run for at least fourty years. it'll get new capacitors before I do anything and who knows if the vibrator is good but they sell solid state units that plug right in. Problem is that it's six volts only. I may resistor down my 12 voly supply when I'm ready, which should be within the next ten years!
Tombstone
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Post by gator7 on Jul 31, 2007 16:53:01 GMT -5
Mine was a 1965 Vintage Courier 23. Also had a Courier 1 M. I think it had the 23 beat in years?
Ahh the good old days.
73's, Gator 7
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Post by Sniper..Unit 305 on Nov 10, 2007 13:35:27 GMT -5
Oldest ones here are my first 2 radios that are a Lafayette HE 20c and a 20a which were bought new, along with my Tram D201 bought it new too when they first came out along with my Yaesu FT-901DM.
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Post by narvous on Dec 24, 2007 22:27:44 GMT -5
Cobra cam 89
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Post by spitfire441 on Apr 14, 2008 4:04:20 GMT -5
I think my oldest radio is Globe CB-100. Made in 1959. I also have a Vocaline Comaire ED-27 4 channel circa 1960. Also Vocaline JRC-400 class A CB UHF from the mid 50's. I have two of them but never tried to use them. I can't imagine how any communication took place with UHF AM not much more than 1 watt radios. To make matters worse they were tuned with a gimmic capacitor! OMG, must have been drifty as hell.
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Post by 2IR473 on Apr 14, 2008 6:59:56 GMT -5
My oldest CB radio is a Cobra Cam 88 from the mid 60s. My oldest ham radio is an FDK multi-2000 2 meter all mode rig from the mid 70s.
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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Apr 14, 2008 7:18:32 GMT -5
Nice olde rigs. I think you have me beat, I have a one channel Gonset G-11, 6 volt mobile. One of these days I'll get it out and recap it and see how the tubes are. It will probably need a solid state replacement for the vibrator, maybe not??
Tombstone
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Post by hillbilly1987 on May 5, 2008 15:23:19 GMT -5
ya i always wonderin how old my cobra 139 23 channel is! would anybody know here?
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Post by zcapri1973 on Jul 10, 2011 18:44:09 GMT -5
my oldest cb is my recent aquirement. a 1959 united science labs, tr-800. it receives 22channels and transmits on 5 channels, depending on which crystals are installed. still breathing life back into her. can't stand the thought of it being just an ornament. my next oldest would be my regency range gain II. liked reading about the other members radios. maybe some other will add some of theirs. Attachments:
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Post by roger224 on Jul 11, 2011 16:49:04 GMT -5
My oldest working would be a Mark II works great. My first base which is now more or less a carcass is a Polytronics ,4 channel,,,@ 1958-59 I believe.
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Post by railroader on Jul 25, 2011 22:30:22 GMT -5
Well my oldest radio is probaly a browning R-2700 receiver, a EF Johnson messenger viking, citi-phone CD-5, or a Gonset G-11
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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Jul 26, 2011 13:22:29 GMT -5
All nice vintage radios. I have a Johnson white face that works and a Gonset G-11.
Tombstone
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Post by railroader on Jul 31, 2011 0:43:12 GMT -5
thats cool the white face johnsons I have 120V AC 12V DC and a 120V AC 6V DC models the 12V DC one works great its all original with factory tubes the original mic and the original FCC transmitter identification card its one of my favorite radio's in my collection
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Post by ab3nk on May 27, 2012 7:55:55 GMT -5
I have my dad's Knight C 560 here on the bench. It is a AC / DC Mobile. Receives all 23 channels and transmits on 6! I gave away his C 560 Base Station - same radio, except it had 23 receive and 9 transmit. www.mequonsteve.com/knight-kit/I still have the origional box it came in, the schematic, spare set of tubes and the Allied Radio catalogs from 1962 - 67 I met a guy at a yard sale last weekend who was selling his fathers estate and he had a Black Face Johnson Messenger and a Lafayette Comstat 25A in a box for $5.00 There was also a old Courier 23 that I could have bought for another $5.00 A buddy of mine has two Tram Titan II transceivers in his shed and a Yaesu 101G he would like to get rid of. Just don't have anywhere to put them and no use for them, since I can talk farther on the ham bands then I can on a CB radio - just too much noise here with all the crazy's on the air.
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Post by jacobs132 on May 27, 2012 8:43:42 GMT -5
my oldest cb is a hallicrafters cb-3, works and looks good. i am surprised at how good the audio quality is.
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Post by challenger2881 on Jul 5, 2014 14:18:16 GMT -5
My oldest rig would be a Utica town and country followed by my International Crystal 100d, both are my current run rigs I love the old Executives!!!!
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Post by BBB on Jul 7, 2014 16:58:38 GMT -5
I really like those T & C's.
Got a Town & Country Utica II. Beautiful exterior design with extra chrome 10-4. Don't know if my oldest radio but I'd say early to mid sixties. My Sonar Model "G" spot goes back a ways, probably same era.
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