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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 14:59:15 GMT -5
Well, it happened. After a long search over 10 years, I found a service manual for the TRC-421A, which is essentially the same as the TRC-422A. These 422A radios don't even sell for $10 on ebay. Yet, I paid over $30 for the manual. LOL.
Why? Read below:
The TRC-422A was my first ever CB that I got on Christmas of 1982 after years of asking for one. It is the very same one that I still got. Over the years, I have found some memorabilia. When my parents moved out of my childhood home in 2006, I got my old radio and box of "stuff". In it was the original Radio Shack receipt from my father. The receipt for the antennas (mobile and Starduster), and my old CB license. One of the last CB licenses ever issued by the FCC. I later took it to Riley Hollingsworth and had him sign it, and he got a kick out of it!
The story of getting a CB was pure hell. I had asked one for years, but my parents would never get me one because they believed I played with things for 5 minutes and put them on the shelf. Cost at the time, was also a factor. So after years of trying, I went all out when I saw the $77 ad in a Radio Shack flyer. I started leaving notes, and pictures of the ads in areas my father would find them, including books, bathroom, work bench, etc. He finally relented for no other reason than that he was sick of me.
About 2 years ago, he decided to re- read a book he had read about 30 years ago. He ends up finding the ad with a note "I want a CB". LOL. Needless to say, he got a kick out of it. And when he realized I still had the one he gave me, he was shocked. I then put the ad and note on my corkboard in my shack. I always say to him, "How did playing with something for 5 minutes and putting it on the shelf" work out with CBs? LOL. He got a good laugh out of it.
Now the final chapter has been written. After a long search of more than 10 years, the service manual is coming home. This will allow me to align and repair this which has very high white noise and likely a couple bad 10V caps.
When it is all over, it will once again be my main CB on in my shack, coming full circle.
Hope the story did not bore you.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jan 4, 2013 16:37:06 GMT -5
I have two of them. The receive is actually pretty good, and the adjacent channel selectivity is 80db @ 10kHz which blows practically ever other CB radio away. It is a nice little radio. This is a picture of one of mine.  Night Ranger |
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Post by BBB on Jan 4, 2013 18:07:15 GMT -5
Hey Night Ranger, that's the rig I saw in your video gate. Nice.
It's really cool that you found your first CB and a way to maintain it Alabama Tick. Let us know if you get it going 100% again.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2013 19:30:38 GMT -5
Hey Mike,
That dude The Devil on your site. Shows he died at 35. What a horrible deal. What did he die from? Sounds like a hell of a guy.
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 4, 2013 21:19:43 GMT -5
Well, it happened. After a long search over 10 years, I found a service manual for the TRC-421A, which is essentially the same as the TRC-422A. These 422A radios don't even sell for $10 on ebay. Yet, I paid over $30 for the manual. LOL. Why? Read below: The TRC-422A was my first ever CB that I got on Christmas of 1982 after years of asking for one. It is the very same one that I still got. Over the years, I have found some memorabilia. When my parents moved out of my childhood home in 2006, I got my old radio and box of "stuff". In it was the original Radio Shack receipt from my father. The receipt for the antennas (mobile and Starduster), and my old CB license. One of the last CB licenses ever issued by the FCC. I later took it to Riley Hollingsworth and had him sign it, and he got a kick out of it! The story of getting a CB was pure hell. I had asked one for years, but my parents would never get me one because they believed I played with things for 5 minutes and put them on the shelf. Cost at the time, was also a factor. So after years of trying, I went all out when I saw the $77 ad in a Radio Shack flyer. I started leaving notes, and pictures of the ads in areas my father would find them, including books, bathroom, work bench, etc. He finally relented for no other reason than that he was sick of me. About 2 years ago, he decided to re- read a book he had read about 30 years ago. He ends up finding the ad with a note "I want a CB". LOL. Needless to say, he got a kick out of it. And when he realized I still had the one he gave me, he was shocked. I then put the ad and note on my corkboard in my shack. I always say to him, "How did playing with something for 5 minutes and putting it on the shelf" work out with CBs? LOL. He got a good laugh out of it. Now the final chapter has been written. After a long search of more than 10 years, the service manual is coming home. This will allow me to align and repair this which has very high white noise and likely a couple bad 10V caps. When it is all over, it will once again be my main CB on in my shack, coming full circle. Hope the story did not bore you. Bore us? Are you kidding? Those are the kind of stories that I love to hear about, and typical of the stuff I write on my website. Sometimes all it takes is one little piece of the past to bring a truckload of memories flooding back in. I'd love to get my hands on a pristine Pace 223, as that was my first 23 channel 4 watt radio. I didn't have it long, only about 2 1/2 months, but during that time, I managed to blow the final in it, and was without it while it got fixed, for nearly half of those 2 1/2 months. But it still would bring back a memory or two.......  |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 4, 2013 21:27:51 GMT -5
I have two of them. The receive is actually pretty good, and the adjacent channel selectivity is 80db @ 10kHz which blows practically ever other CB radio away. It is a nice little radio. This is a picture of one of mine. Night Ranger Our group pretty much ignored those early -mid 80's vintage radios as they had PLL's in them that couldn't be easily modified. Consequently, not too many people ran them. In that time frame, I was running a TRC-152 (converted to 40 channel +)  ....and a Midland 77-882  |
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Post by BBB on Jan 6, 2013 9:44:43 GMT -5
That 77-882 looks exactly like the Midland 13-882B I pulled from a Box-O-Stuff yesterday. It's a 23 channel rig.
"These 422A radios don't even sell for $10 on ebay". Yes indeed, just picked one up for $6.99 ;D Hopefully I won't need a manual.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jan 6, 2013 14:04:29 GMT -5
That 77-882 looks exactly like the Midland 13-882B I pulled from a Box-O-Stuff yesterday. It's a 23 channel rig. "These 422A radios don't even sell for $10 on ebay". Yes indeed, just picked one up for $6.99 ;D Hopefully I won't need a manual. I got one brand new in the box off Ebay. Even I have not used it yet. My used one actually has a very respectable and highly selective CB receiver in it. ;D Night Ranger |
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Post by gator7 on Jan 9, 2013 10:43:13 GMT -5
Wow, very cool story. My dad got me hooked on CB in 1964. I was a young pup, but I knew that CB was a part of me. We started out with a Courier 23 on base, and a 1M in the mobile. Due to the draw on the battery, He had to buy a transistor power supply.
Could you see a 1M in todays cars? You would break the dash from the weight.
It was a nice trip down memory lane. Thanks.
73
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Post by BBB on Jan 16, 2013 18:12:50 GMT -5
I did a bad, bad thing. I was hastefully trying to test my D&A Raider amp and the 422A was the first radio I grabbed to fire it. Don't ya know I stuffed the power lead wires for the radio backwards into the power supply cable I had. Damit Jim...heard pop fiss and now no transmit, no audio output. The channel display and meter lights up. Only a small blip on the power meter when keyed. Hopefully they had some reverse polarity protection in there and I can get it going again  |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jan 16, 2013 19:57:45 GMT -5
I did a bad, bad thing. I was hastefully trying to test my D&A Raider amp and the 422A was the first radio I grabbed to fire it. Don't ya know I stuffed the power lead wires for the radio backwards into the power supply cable I had. Damit Jim...heard pop fiss and now no transmit, no audio output. The channel display and meter lights up. Only a small blip on the power meter when keyed. Hopefully they had some reverse polarity protection in there and I can get it going again Hopefully you had the stock fuse in there and not a 20 amp......... Usually there is a diode to protect against reversed polarity, but when it goes then the radio presents a dead short to the power supply. But your seems to be working (sort of). Reverse polarity can take out the audio amp chip as well as the final. It may have opened up a trace on the board. Hopefully the latter is your problem, as it's alot easier to fix... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2013 21:33:04 GMT -5
I did not see a reverse protection diode in the radio.
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Post by Night Ranger on Jan 16, 2013 21:58:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2013 21:24:49 GMT -5
Oh damn, you are right! Saved me a mod!
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Post by BBB on Jan 21, 2013 20:29:53 GMT -5
Thanks, there's hope yet. No burnt traces. I'll check out the diode.
Gosh darn "red with a BLACK stripe" wire leads. (that's right, I'm blaming the wires)
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Post by glenjarnold on May 27, 2019 7:38:01 GMT -5
Hi folks, Glenn from the UK here. I've just found a TRC 422A on eBay this morning. Still in the box with all the bits and pieces completely unused. Belonged to an engineer and was part of a garage clear out. I paid £15 (around $19!) Can't wait for it to arrive. Just for the record I still have my Colt 210 which I bought brand new in 1981, still works like a dream too.
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Post by bobcat4109 on May 28, 2019 9:34:45 GMT -5
You are in the right place when it comes to "understanding this story". That is exactly the way I feel about my first, a JC Penney Pinto - 6213. I'm hoping it will be coming home soon.
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Post by glenjarnold on Jun 1, 2019 6:07:18 GMT -5
Hi folks, Glenn from the UK here. I've just found a TRC 422A on eBay this morning. Still in the box with all the bits and pieces completely unused. Belonged to an engineer and was part of a garage clear out. I paid £15 (around $19!) Can't wait for it to arrive. Just for the record I still have my Colt 210 which I bought brand new in 1981, still works like a dream too. And here she is. Works A1, gotta be my bargain of the year so far! Attachment DeletedAttachment Deleted |
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Post by cbrown on Jun 5, 2019 14:30:15 GMT -5
Looks great!
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Post by glenjarnold on Dec 3, 2022 7:38:07 GMT -5
Hi folks, Glenn from the UK here. I've just found a TRC 422A on eBay this morning. Still in the box with all the bits and pieces completely unused. Belonged to an engineer and was part of a garage clear out. I paid £15 (around $19!) Can't wait for it to arrive. Just for the record I still have my Colt 210 which I bought brand new in 1981, still works like a dream too. And here she is. Works A1, gotta be my bargain of the year so far! View AttachmentView AttachmentView AttachmentI've just brought her back out of retirement for skip season, and you guys from the USA are booming across the Atlantic. This little rig has got the best ANL filter I've ever experienced on any rig, including various ham rigs. My house suffers from chronic PLT interference, yet this rig is the only one where I don't have to use the QRM eliminator. |
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