CB Radio Suggestions?

[superchargeddrt]

c.b.s come about in late 60s, took till early 70s to catch on big! but now days with gps and cell phones the c.b. world has faded alot! earliest c.b.s were 23 channel and midland, johnson, pace, ranger, layette were some the high end brands by 72 could get j.c. penny, sears, realistic, and kraco's! i got a couple realistic's and kraco's and a 23 channel cobra but id be skeerd to hook power to them, 3 cb men all say itll go up in smoke if i did....diodes dried out or something! then your gonna want a vintage antenna like a shakespeare or a fiberglass frances or any magnet mount you could find! flea markets and yard sales best places to search for such! if you planning on using it, get a 40 channel cobra 29 or a uniden 76 and a wilson 1000 antenna and you will be good to go!

Probably just need to change the electrolytic capacitors as they tend to dry out and become resistors (what they call a high ESR). Other than that you should be fine. I went through the CB boom in the 70s and I used to repair them (have a first class FCC license). Still have a Realistic 40 channel single side band (with extra channels) and my Astatic D104 lollipop microphone.

 

[67Dart273]

Probably just need to change the electrolytic capacitors as they tend to dry out and become resistors (what they call a high ESR). Other than that you should be fine. I went through the CB boom in the 70s and I used to repair them (have a first class FCC license). Still have a Realistic 40 channel single side band (with extra channels) and my Astatic D104 lollipop microphone.

Last I knew a "General" class FCC radiotelephone license (GROL) is still required to do CB radio repairs.

§ 95.424 (CB Rule 24) How do I have my CB station transmitter serviced? (a) You may adjust an antenna to your CB transmitter and you may make radio checks. (A radio check means a one way transmission for a short time in order to test the trans-mitter.) (b) You are responsible for the proper operation of the station at all times and are expected to provide for obser-vations, servicing and maintenance as often as may be necessary to ensure proper operation. You must have all in-ternal repairs or internal adjustments to your CB transmitter made in ac-cordance with the Technical Regula-tions (see subpart E). The internal re-pairs or internal adjustments should be performed by or under the immediate

551 Federal Communications Commission § 95.601 supervision and responsibility of a per-son certified as technically qualified to perform transmitter maintenance and repair duties in the private land mobile services and fixed services by an orga-nization or committee representative of users in those services. (c) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, each internal repair and each internal adjustment of a CB transmitter in which signals are trans-mitted must be made using a nonradi-ating (‘‘dummy’’) antenna. (d) Brief test signals (signals not longer than one minute during any five minute period) using a radiating an-tenna may be transmitted in order to: (1) Adjust an antenna to a trans-mitter; (2) Detect or measure radiation of en-ergy other than the intended signal; or (3) Tune a receiver to your CB trans-mitter. (Secs. 4(i) and 303(r), Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i) and 303(r), and sec. 553 of the Administrative Proce-dures Act, 5 U.S.C. 553) [48 FR 24894, June 3, 1983, as amended at 49 FR 20673, May 16, 1984]

 

[Slap Stick]

Is this the gutter mount you’re talking about? Goes around the gutter and then a couple set screws hold it against it?my car has the gutters above the doors.
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Wow, never seen one like that or built so heavy.
Do a websearch or visit a CB shop in your area. There are a few brands out there such as Antenna Specialists, Wilson and Hustler to name a few.

 

[superchargeddrt]

Last I knew a "General" class FCC radiotelephone license (GROL) is still required to do CB radio repairs.

§ 95.424 (CB Rule 24) How do I have my CB station transmitter serviced? (a) You may adjust an antenna to your CB transmitter and you may make radio checks. (A radio check means a one way transmission for a short time in order to test the trans-mitter.) (b) You are responsible for the proper operation of the station at all times and are expected to provide for obser-vations, servicing and maintenance as often as may be necessary to ensure proper operation. You must have all in-ternal repairs or internal adjustments to your CB transmitter made in ac-cordance with the Technical Regula-tions (see subpart E). The internal re-pairs or internal adjustments should be performed by or under the immediate

551 Federal Communications Commission § 95.601 supervision and responsibility of a per-son certified as technically qualified to perform transmitter maintenance and repair duties in the private land mobile services and fixed services by an orga-nization or committee representative of users in those services. (c) Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this section, each internal repair and each internal adjustment of a CB transmitter in which signals are trans-mitted must be made using a nonradi-ating (‘‘dummy’’) antenna. (d) Brief test signals (signals not longer than one minute during any five minute period) using a radiating an-tenna may be transmitted in order to: (1) Adjust an antenna to a trans-mitter; (2) Detect or measure radiation of en-ergy other than the intended signal; or (3) Tune a receiver to your CB trans-mitter. (Secs. 4(i) and 303(r), Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i) and 303(r), and sec. 553 of the Administrative Proce-dures Act, 5 U.S.C. 553) [48 FR 24894, June 3, 1983, as amended at 49 FR 20673, May 16, 1984]

Yeah the First Class license became a General Class license. It used to be that you had to send your license in every 2 years (or it may have been 5 I am not sure) for renewal. They would send your old license back with a big CANCELED stamped across the front of it but they would send you a new license that was renewed. What pissed me off about the general class license was that it was a generic card black and white and the old licenses were a nice certificate suitable for framing and display. Anyway at least they're permanent and you don't have to send them in anymore.

 

[superchargeddrt]

Actually the second class Federal communications license was harder to get than the first. There was more circuitry and questions involved in the second class where the first class was more antenna theory. You would go in there and they would make you sit every other chair and you would take your test. When you would go up they would tell you whether you passed and failed and by how many questions but they wouldn't tell you which questions you missed. And there were three or four different tests and there was no guarantee that you would get the same test the next time you came back. I think you had to wait a month or so to take the test again.