I'm looking at buying the older style AM/SSB CB radio.
If you have one for sale, please pm me with full details.
All reasonable offers considered.
Thanks.
Ross
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I'm looking at buying the older style AM/SSB CB radio.
If you have one for sale, please pm me with full details.
All reasonable offers considered.
Thanks.
Ross
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same here my Dick Smith Hornet 2 was a ripper in its day, but a bit bulky to re-install in a Patrol.
Would be better suited in a camper or a van, could pick up USA easy with the right conditions, I loved it
I love to talk. lol. This is probably the first mod I have done without fully doing my homework. I recently bought an AM one only because a few retailers told me that to get the SSB side of the radio, I'd have to buy one from overseas, so I settled on buying one from Aus - with AM mode only.
I used to be right into CB's and it's also planned to use it as 'Plan B' should anything happen to my Codan NGT AR HF radio.
Rossco
There's usually cb kit to be had at the various ham fests and sales. I've seen a few unidens etc go for nix.
Another option is to get your foundation ham licence (very easy) and there are a lot of options for sideband along with a lot more bands to play with. The 10m ham band isn't that far from the 11m (27mhz) cb frequencies.
Do people still use 27mhz AM??? Last time I tried one years there was no one on . You may be lucky to get skip on SSB but the chances of someone receiving on the other side would be very low IMO
Hiya Cobbs,
As per the PM can't help with the SSB but just curious if you have been chatting on VKS outside of the skeds?
It would be possible for us to have a chat from one side of OZ to the other.
If the 'conditions' are right. The other morning I was talking to Swan Hill VKS. Not the best reception, but we could hear each other.
If we changed to a different channel, it's probably possible.
When I've been down south, I talked to Adelaide quite a bit, and from memory, to Tassie, too.
Hey mate, I have one that does side band etc, dunno what it's worth but I know it works I had it in my last patrol. Can give more details when I'm home if you haven't found one already.
Edit: am I talking about the right kind of radio?
There you go, still want it?
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we should put pics up of our CB/SSB radios so ppl can see what coms were like before UHF came along.
Rossco's got a woodie, Rossco's got a woodie... nothing like a bit of ancient tech porn eh mate
i also have an antenna for it if your interested? you can just have that for free, just pay for the postage for it lol.
I had a Hornet as well, installed in my Corolla, then I used it as a base station with a directional antenna. SSB is really weird when it comes to reception. From my place, I could talk to southern WA, Towoomba QLD, Melbourne, New Zealand and lots of the time, Hawaii. The main reason dad gave me the set was to talk to him in Bendigo, but we could not get any signal what so ever. Yet a bloke in Heywood, with the same antenna as mine, got Bendigo as clear as day. I got sick of all the trash talked so I returned the set to Dad.
you cant post longer than 1000mm with Aust post.
For distance they are rippers with the alien squelch sounds
I've got a Qmac HF-90 radio, but don't have the handset
Does anyone still use HF Radio????
my mates father made a solid alloy antenna about 10ft high that was called a "Thunder stick"
I never tried it but was part of a home base set up.
After his father died I was given all his radio equipment
,but I gave it someone I knew with a proper home base set up.
Ended up being over a boot full of radios ,meters etc
Don't throw it... put it on Gumtree.
Even without the Handset you should get $ from people like Rossco.
Nah, seriously, I would stick it on Gumtree for... uuummm... $200 or offers and see if you get any interest
In good nick and working they sell for 300 to 400 dollars but you have to wait for the right buyer.
They were top of the Wozza in their day, as good or better than Codan etc and are still in use as portable HF sets in the SES.
Here's a link to a jumbled User manual for ya... http://www.hf-radio.com.au/manuals/Q...0Manual%20.pdf
Breaker one niner , whats your 10-20 there good buddy.
There a bear in a plain wrapper coming right at you, roger that big daddy
LOL lol lol Cant wait
Or I can just download the one hosted on this forum already *L*
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forum...allation-Guide
But thanks anyway :)
Forgot I even had that its been that long
For some reason CB radios always remind me of that song "Teddy bear"
and those Cannonball run movies
You never heard it from me but there was an unsubstantiated rumour that certain military techies would, on occasions of boredom late at night, tune the 400 Watt HF radios to 27 Meg CB freq's, key the Mic and utter really profound comments like "This is the voice of God", "Standby for a National Disaster Network Emergency Message" etc
The WTFWT replies would have us rolling in hysterics for hours... alledgedly.