@brandon7861 - Thank you for finding it.
I've kept a copy for myself and what is left of CBT and even some of the older threads saved off as "MHT" snapshots to offer help when I get lost.
Only now, I get more lost in the memories behind the MHT files so the task I wanted to perform was already covered by several posters ago before I even typed up the response.
*sigh*
You have to realize it's from a time long ago that when the world was simpler and Nextel was running Races to promote the 2-way features of their new system and that price tag to go along with it, and #3 was zooming around the racetrack ...
Why the mention of the Races? Because of Nextel and the technology behind it, CB became more of a Gentleman's game of chess and checkers - there was no longer the need to drive the market with fancy faceplates of shiny Mylar and the poorly designed IF vertical card strips that replaced the older more-stringent IF cans
As technology moved on, some liked the newer stuff so I had to scramble and learn the new ways of thinking and designing - only to get to a point in life where the stuff that built those radios, we lost to China, and is now irreparably lost - period. Only the spare parts bins and dust bunnies know of where the remainder of those parts are.
Gone are the days of radios like that - small compact and made with features with the most minimalist of parts possible and yet provide stable results from they day it was made and beyond. Their birth date - now closer to 50+ years of technology from back then, are still in operation. Amazingly - compare that to even radios of several months ago, are already failing in their stock form and their parts to fix them are even more unobtainium that what Uniden had for the PC-series
So I'm glad someone remembers those days - for now, social media has gotten to a point where your kids are no longer gathering around the radio to listen for friends and family on their trips to and fro and tasks that made radio an imaginary place of fun and drama. That is left to their phones.
And to think people pay for streaming and cable entertainment - when someone would play the local ball game over a channel just so others could hear it as "background" to keep out the skip static and hiss. Yet weak enough not to intrude - and let their loved ones call out and let the channel moms know where their Husbands were at
So when I look at those pages I see my history, some wonderful, some painful - some just downright fun. But it's a snapshot of a time frame - like that of a photograph and when Bennie had to pull the plug, so went that effort too.
I thank you and the others here, in the Forums for putting up with a guy like me, someone once said I was like a ADHD kid out here trying to help others fix radios. Well, in a way sometimes my efforts helped and fixed it and now it works, other times it didn't, and oftentimes we learn a little more about ourselves in the process.
I'm still here.
