Any CB radio tecs out there? I've recently picked up the hobby again. Vintage CB radios 70s 80s sell for strong money (especially those made in Japan) search your lofts🌚 CB/HAM radio. Great hobby. Expensive hobby
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I worked briefly for a repair shop in Ithaca, NY. The told me about a guy who fitted up his 12V CB radio with a 2-prong AC plug for "convenience". One of his buddies borrowed the set, got the wrong idea, and plugged it into the wall. All the semiconductors got blasted, and the radio was basically unrepairable. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of PCB traces disappeared in puffs of vapor as well.
Funny enough I was speaking with some Americans earlier. 27.385. Lower sidebands on the mid block. Skip conditions were good (ionosphere)
When I was working at that repair shop, the CB craze was pretty much at its height in the USA - some of the more crazed punters were trying to persuade me to make one of those blatantly illegal kW-class booster amplifiers.
When it became legal here in 1981 (FM) it became a big thing pretty quickly. God knows the numbers re cb radios sold here in the UK. 2 million maybe. Where are they all??? Ten to hundreds of thousands in peoples lofts I'm guessing