Is there rivalry between cb?ers and hams?

[Pete, WA2CWA]

At one time I had at least half dozen NOS of those TM-58 meter movements in my inventory. Made a bunch of Power/SWR meters using those meter movements and sold them at local hamfests.

It's also been years since I checked my crystal stock for a lot of the crystals used in the frequency synthesizing setups. I should probably check and sell off that stuff before they crumble into dust.

[KD6VXI]

The veritable D201.

Has a 6550A in it now instead of the 6L6GC.  I ran a KT88 in it for a long time until it broke shipping it here.  Had a 6550 so threw that in.

Has zero issues making 8 watts of carrier and 150 percent modulation.

Those bigger tubes REALLY didnt want to fit in the radio, but it was worth it.

Of course I had to bring a couple plate mod transmitters down to the Caribbean, too


I have a Glenn 326G (programmable digital) VFO for the D201.  As is it covers 11 or 10 meters depending on which xtal i have in it for the BFO to heterodyne off with the factory vfo.  Haven't had time to put it on it.


--Shane
WP2ASS / ex KD6VXI

[KA3EKH]

Wow, all this talk about CB has me so inspired decided to look on the Bay and see what is available. Being i am not smart enough to use modern radios just did a key word search for used and vintage.
over eight thousand used CB radios pop up and did see some nice Lafayette tube sets I can relate to but also saw this.
I don't want it being too new but looking at it feel this must be the "Trump" edition radio.
Look close at the picture and see the radio in the background with the old Heathkit amplifier.

[W3SLK]

K4HX said:

Maryland is below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Everywhere I went in the south, (Norge included! ), the REAL Mason-Dixon line is only 10 miles north of where you are standing at that time!

[W1RKW]

I can't resist bringing free Lafayette 25 channel toob sets back to life.  

that is a cool looking radio. practical and utilitarian but a beauty for that time period.

[WA2SQQ]

Question for Pete: which manufacturer did Lafayette use for their Comstat 25A set? Looks a lot like the ECI/Courier 23 except for the rounded cabinet design which looks like Regency.

Also note that Courier 23 was manufactured by ECI/Courier, Mount Vernon, NY.

Pete
I had an old Courier manual that listed their address on Frelinghisen Ave in Newark,NJ
Were they ever made in NJ?
I also re+all that at some point the company was  called Fanon Courier?
I?m seriously wanting to convert my Courier Royale up,to 10m AM. Not sure where to start and what would be involved.

[KD6VXI]

Question for Pete: which manufacturer did Lafayette use for their Comstat 25A set? Looks a lot like the ECI/Courier 23 except for the rounded cabinet design which looks like Regency.

Also note that Courier 23 was manufactured by ECI/Courier, Mount Vernon, NY.

Pete
I had an old Courier manual that listed their address on Frelinghisen Ave in Newark,NJ
Were they ever made in NJ?
I also re+all that at some point the company was  called Fanon Courier?
I?m seriously wanting to convert my Courier Royale up,to 10m AM. Not sure where to start and what would be involved.

https://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=16767.0

Courier 10 meters with the math.

I found using a MFJ 259 to inject the new signal gave me a drift VFO. 


--Shane

[KD6VXI]

Question for Pete: which manufacturer did Lafayette use for their Comstat 25A set? Looks a lot like the ECI/Courier 23 except for the rounded cabinet design which looks like Regency.

Also note that Courier 23 was manufactured by ECI/Courier, Mount Vernon, NY.

Pete
I had an old Courier manual that listed their address on Frelinghisen Ave in Newark,NJ
Were they ever made in NJ?
I also re+all that at some point the company was  called Fanon Courier?
I?m seriously wanting to convert my Courier Royale up,to 10m AM. Not sure where to start and what would be involved.

Courier was owned by ECI at one point as well.

Their chassis, along with Lafayette, Robyn (early tube stuff), Gemtronics (tube stuff), ECI Fanon Courier and even Kris (tube stuff) where fabbed by Panasonic in Japan.

Later on, after the switch to solid state, Cybernetic became a powerhouse of CB manufacturing.  If it has the PLL02A PLL in it, it's a Cybernet.  Chances are good it was assembled here in the good old USA as well.  Cybernetic would finish a lot of their chassis in Puerto Rico.

Unidentified came along after that, well into the late 70s to mid 80s and started falling for everyone.

Finally it was Jimmy Peng and Ranger Communications International that has been building most CB chassis ( the Cobra and Uniden boards, so to speak).  

Interestingly enough, Ranger (Jimmy Peng) bought the the Tawain fab shop that built the Fanon solid state Courier radios.  He ended up owning the name Courier and Galaxy from that purchase.  It ended up becoming RCI.

He started by bringing the Courier name and the Galaxy name back in the late 80s and early 90s. 

There's another fab house that built the crappy radios of 20 some years ago, wireless marketing.  Early Chinese crap.  

Memory lane.  Whodathunk being an insider to CB radios would have ever imparted knowledge anyone cared about.  Maybe nobody does.


--Shane
Wp2ass / ex KD6VXI