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Post by Raccoon on Jun 14, 2020 13:32:09 GMT -5
Hey Everyone ,
Me and a friend were talking about older tube radios the other day ... and a question came up .
Does anyone here know what CB radio was the last one to be made with tubes in it ?
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 14, 2020 14:11:51 GMT -5
Hey Everyone , Me and a friend were talking about older tube radios the other day ... and a question came up . Does anyone here know what CB radio was the last one to be made with tubes in it ? That's an interesting question. Tube rigs pretty much went the way of the dinosaur shortly after the CB band increased to 40 channels in 1977. At that time, The Browning MK IV, the Tram D201A, Sonar FS2340, and a handful of Panasonic chassis radios were the only ones left. Both Tram and Browning went out of business shortly afterward, and the companies that offered up the Panasonic chassis radios pretty much faded from the public eye as well. I would say that by 1979/80, there were no more tube CB's being made. |
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 16, 2020 12:03:56 GMT -5
Hey Everyone , Me and a friend were talking about older tube radios the other day ... and a question came up . Does anyone here know what CB radio was the last one to be made with tubes in it ? That's an interesting question. Tube rigs pretty much went the way of the dinosaur shortly after the CB band increased to 40 channels in 1977. At that time, The Browning MK IV, the Tram D201A, Sonar FS2340, and a handful of Panasonic chassis radios were the only ones left. Both Tram and Browning went out of business shortly afterward, and the companies that offered up the Panasonic chassis radios pretty much faded from the public eye as well. I would say that by 1979/80, there were no more tube CB's being made. As an afterthought, I was pretty much only considering full tube rigs (or mostly tube rigs, as all of the 40 channel tube rigs also had solid state components in them). But if you also want to consider mostly solid state hybrid rigs with only one or 2 tubes in them, there were also the DAK 9 and DAK 10. Although I don't think they made it much past 1980 either. |
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Post by cbrown on Jun 17, 2020 12:57:15 GMT -5
there were also the DAK 9 and DAK 10. Although I don't think they made it much past 1980 either. For good reasons.  |
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Post by Raccoon on Jun 17, 2020 15:15:13 GMT -5
Hey Sandbagger,
I have a couple of "Old Timer" CB's here ... all tube , 23 channel ... and I live in South Eastern NY .... so I'll make a stop into channel 13 tonight and see if you can hear one of old timers . Thanks for letting me know .
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 17, 2020 16:01:38 GMT -5
Hey Sandbagger, I have a couple of "Old Timer" CB's here ... all tube , 23 channel ... and I live in South Eastern NY .... so I'll make a stop into channel 13 tonight and see if you can hear one of old timers . Thanks for letting me know . That's quite a distance away. A little too far for a direct shot, and too close to skip. But it's worth a try...... If you have a large beam on a tall mountain and maybe 1000 watts...... |
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Post by Raccoon on Jun 17, 2020 17:53:52 GMT -5
I also have a REALLY loud station in skipland that's covering everyone up ... but I was hoping . I'm looking into starting an "Old Radio Night" here in my area as well .
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Post by Sandbagger on Jun 18, 2020 19:52:49 GMT -5
I also have a REALLY loud station in skipland that's covering everyone up ... but I was hoping . I'm looking into starting an "Old Radio Night" here in my area as well . Yeah, the skip was pretty brutal last night. Lots of Good ol' Boys down south coming in like locals. But yes, by all means try to get an old radio night going. All you need is one or two guys to start it with. Get the old rigs running, talk about them, and see who comes out of the woodwork. You never know..... |
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Post by cbrown on Jun 24, 2020 12:36:33 GMT -5
All you need is one or two guys to start it with. Get the old rigs running, talk about them, and see who comes out of the woodwork. You never know..... That happened to me, I talk to a friend on the CB nightly during the week and for weeks it was just the two of us, usually for 2 hours or so just rag chewing away about nothing. One day he went to get something to eat, so he was gone for 20 minutes or so. next thing I know someone asks for a break wondering where to two guys who always talk are. Turns out we had a group of 4 guys just sandbagging our conversations, and they didn't want to interrupt. So you never do know who is out there listening. |
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Post by Raccoon on Jul 7, 2020 0:30:09 GMT -5
You have no idea how many times I've had something like that happen to me ... lol
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Post by cbrown on Jul 8, 2020 12:33:48 GMT -5
I'm sure. Apparently a lot more people still listen to the radios. Just not sure why they won't talk, as I'm sure more activity would bring others to talk to.
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Post by Raccoon on Jul 18, 2020 13:42:58 GMT -5
I agree 100% .... too much sandbagging going on and not enough talking .
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