New member - vintage rigs in use?

Hi,

I'm new to Charlie Tango, but had a CB back in the day. LOL 

It was an AM 120 channel Tristar 727, and I thoght I was so cool driving around in Slough with a large whip on the back of my white Volvo 145 estate.

Now using a sommerkamp ts-788dx but I still have the Tristar 727.

Anyone using any vintage rigs these days?

Andy.

My main radio is a Kenwood TS440S which is older enough but I have a huge love for older CB radio's and always have my early MK2 Cobra 148GTL-DX and Mustang 2000 setup. No modern plastic radio's with USB sockets in my shack.

Somewhere packed away in the roof space is my old Stalker XX. I really liked using that. 

Mal

Mousetrap wrote:

Somewhere packed away in the roof space is my old Stalker XX. I really liked using that. 

Mal

Now thats one radio I wish I never sold. Let me know if yours is for sale  

Hi,

I'll be keeping my Stalker XX At various times long ago I had a Superstar (360?), Cobra 148 GTL DX and a Stalker IV.

I had 934 equipment too (a Reftec I think) but that went whilst the band was still in use.

The Stalker XX was the keeper.

Mal

Still got and use my Harrier CBX with added mids. Recently purchased a second one. Still got my springer antenna but use my sirio antenna now when mobile and a V5000 for field day use.

I had the same SWR meter as shown in the picture, my parents bought it for me as a birthday gift when I was still at school. Unfortunately it was all sold when I left the CB hobby in the 1990's to get married. But I have returned to the hobby after all those years and have now bought new and some older equipment form junk sales.  

Allan  41CT005

Back in the early eighties I had a Stag 357, didn’t really understand upper and lower sideband but wish I never got rid , ended up swapping it for two forty channel rigs 🥴

Here in the states, I think we might have a group  trying to  revive ch16 lsb. I heard stories of 23ch radio days , 16LSB was the hot spot.  I have tried putting into service some of my old rigs (Royce) but with alot of the big units on ch6 its just too much (QRM) .  I have often thought of installing a VFO to the 23ch  and have that ol rig feeling, where it might be able to be used/heard.  What I do enjoy seeing, is old rigs from all over the globe , what some of used to have to work with, and built stories to tell today. The FTDX10 is fun to work, some of the older Kenwood units , ( I still have a TS450s), But there was something? wasn't there? running some of the older gear...   2CT351 Colorado.

I am still sometimes using my old (1981) Ham international Jumbo. Love the feel of the vintage rigs, especially the ones with which we share fond memories.

andy pi wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to Charlie Tango, but had a CB back in the day. LOL 

It was an AM 120 channel Tristar 727, and I thoght I was so cool driving around in Slough with a large whip on the back of my white Volvo 145 estate.

Now using a sommerkamp ts-788dx but I still have the Tristar 727.

Anyone using any vintage rigs these days?

Andy.

My main rig is my Ham International Multimode II , which has been modified to add Super lo and Super Hi bands as well as UK40 , and also has a 10Kc shift , as well as the clarifier , to help where channel spacing is uneven .

I also still have my original Binatone Breaker Phone , which was the very first rig I ever bought , back in 1981 , plus two others ; also , from 40 or so years back , my Uniden Uniace 200 , which I have owned from new , and two Audioline PT-342 remote rigs , which , like the Breaker Phone , have a main box which can be hidden away and all the controls are on the mic ( I like these for mobile use as it avoids having a visible rig inside the car , and the K40 antenna is very discrete on the outside , besides being very easy to mount and dismount with its bayonet fitting . I have also had the Audioline 340 and 341 in the past , as well as Binatone 5 Star and many of the other popular rigs of the day . Still have a pair of Eurosonic 40ch handheld radios as well .

Rigs I always fancied but never owned include the NATO 2000 and the Ham International Jumbo .

For homebase , I had a Shkespeare Big Stick for a while , then changed to the original Thunderpole , long before the name was bought over .

Here is my trusty old Ham International Jumbo   

Very nice looking radio.

Thank you Glenn! I don’t use it much anymore but it is still proudly sitting on my bench.  

Some cool radios in this thread.

I have a few vintage radios: Stalker 9fdx and mk2 superstar 360fm (both with the stealth front), Prseident Lincoln, Jackson, Jack, mk2 Cobra 148 gtl dx and a Uniden 100.

73s John.