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Even a Bird wattmeter with a good slug is plus or minus 5%. How accurate do they expect to get?? I have a friend that has one of the Alpha RF Systems wattmeters that cost about $1500 or so. It is somewhat better than 5% accuracy according to the specs. A good powered peak reading wattmeter is...

It would probably work but just how well is the big question. For the cost of the tuner you might be able to buy a regular CB base antenna.

No one wants to watch 1 hours worth of videos to learn what the problem is with the rig!

Old thread but who cares. I have a 630NA. Ya just gotta LOVE that taut band meter movement!!

Cool. Thanks for the comment.

I thought someone may have had some experience with the adapter. Oh well...I guess I'll have to buy one and find out for myself!:eek::D

The old tube amps like that were mostly bought in a time when CB base radios were tube rigs. The tube rigs were not as fussy about the input SWR and most tube rigs had a plate and load adjustment in the rear of the rig to maximize the output and adjust for some mismatch. You might want to look...

Old thread but I have a couple comments. I have had one for about 3 years now. Got it from Gigaparts for $450 shipped. A pretty good price at the time.I waited for a used one to show up on Ebay and QRZ.com but when they did the price was always too high, almost the same as a new one. I like the...

I think I remember that being discussed before around here and that it is not factual. It would of course be illegal to manufacture and market them as new but there isn't any reason that an older 23 channel rig cannot still be used and of course a great many of them are sold privately as used...

One problem is getting the crystal(s) that you would need to do it. Hardly anyone makes them anymore and they are made to order now from what I understand. Around $30 each or so I believe from what I have read. Still want to crystal up that old 5 channel Hallicrafters CB mobile? $300 please...

I don't recall that they did and the modifications would probably be cost prohibitive to convert a 23 channel rig to the entire 40 channels and do a clean job of it i.e. no extra switches and complicated channel selection processes like the more common extra channel mods are these days. They...

I'd try to find the matching mic connector before changing it. Check Ebay, ask in forums, etc before giving up. Hamfests usually have a lot of old connectors and even mics if there is one or two nearby and happening fairly soon. From S9 magazine July 1969. Kind of a novelty radio! You could hear...

I see there are a couple NMO to 3/8x24 thread adapters out there and was wondering how well they work. Are they better for shorter antennas and unreliable for a full length fiberglass whip or? This being irrespective of the actual NMO mount being used. I know some of the mounts themselves are...

Pics of the insides too. Numbers on transistors to ID them etc.

Neat project. I knew a couple people that had Kris amps back in 1970. Probably not the best designed amplifiers but they have nostalgic value to me although I never had one. That and the Hy-gain Afterburner amps which were common at the time.

Probably a bad connection at the mic connector or at the mic. either inside the mic or where the cable starts to go into the mic. Not hard to diagnose but if a wire is broken in the mic cable it may be less trouble or cheaper to buy a new hand mic rather than a new cable to fix it with. I'd keep...

It started back in 1962 or 3 when I was 10 or 11 years old with a set of Penncrest (JC Penney) walkie talkies I got for Christmas. Then in 1964 my Dad brought home a Hallicrafters S120 receiver. I had that until about 1969 when I traded it for a couple Heathkit CB-1 "lunchboxes". I strung up...

Perhaps cheaper by a long shot as well. Chasing down decent parts can be a lot of effort and cost with shipping costs added in. There are also perhaps special tools you may need you may never use again. Nibbler tool, Dremel tool etc. I built a small amplifier for 6 meters once with an MRF492...

You should be able to as long as you have the right adapter cable, if one is even needed at all. I had one for a while on a 746 Pro and it worked just fine. They have very "hot" sensitivity. You don't need much mic gain. Really there are several electret elements out there that are just as good...

Whether it is ham radio or CB radio, it is just not for everyone! Just like anything else. Trying to find a way to convince anyone that they should be a part of something they don't really like anyway is a big waste of your time. You can't BEAT interest into anyone. These days they should stick...