Sears Roadtalker

[Dolphin1]

I have a Sears Roadtalker 40. Some previous owner drilled 4 holes thru the top cover.
they filled it up with silicone rtv from the bottom side of the cover.

The roadtalker uses a brown plastic type cover over a metal cover. I went to lowes and purchased a wood stain
marker dark walnut color. It was the closest I could find there but seems to be off. I first used
plastic wood filler then sanded it before applying color.

Does anyone know about the sears Roadtalker cover and the shade of the color?
Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,Jim.

[Dolphin1]

Here are 2 photos of the item.

Thanks,Jim.

[Fast1eddie]

Smokin' radyo back in the day, same thing happened to me. Reminds me of the woodgrain on the family station wagon. Guess you could sand it down and re paint with your own color scheme. Would be different.

[RadioDaze]

It's plastic; you can't sand it or stain it. Just buy some woodgrain adhesive contact paper and re-wrap it. Keep an X-Acto blade handy to trim the edges.

Try searching for stuff like this:
Amazon.com: Ultra Honey Oak Adhesive Contact Paper: Home Improvement

[uzi9mmauto]

Originally Posted by Dolphin1

I have a Sears Roadtalker 40.

Does anyone know about the sears Roadtalker cover and the shade of the color?
Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,Jim.

If memory serves me right- the radio was woodgrain or..? (Wood grain?) I do have something cool to tell you about that chip. We couldn't find the reference on the Chip MOD. (1992) I didn't have a Frequency Counter at that time. We looked in the book and seen a comparison to the O2A Chip.
I remember starting the MOD. Then my nosey grandmother happened to 'notice' a light tap sound here and there on the cordless. (For some reason soldering interferes??!) As you know the chip was small. I was starting another part and she was rapping away at my dam door' Are you on the radio- I screamed " ALREADY F^^^ING TOLD YOU NO! STOP KNOCKING ON THE DOOR OVER A F*^^NG CLICK SOUND. So I put the solder iron down before I shoved it down her throat. I wired a switch up quickly and I went back on air for friend to find me with with AR3500.

We spent about 10-15 minutes puzzled. Where the hell am I? So I turned my am/fm radio on and was interfering with it like I should. Then everything got silent and he said 'start whistling'. I unkeyed only to hear him talking to me off Frequency somwhere. He called my name and I said I hear you. He said Hold on- 'I cant get to you - give me 2 minutes.'

Then i heard that 'double thud' the Ar3300/3500 do when they keyup at times. He called me and asked "Do you know where you are?" I came back and said no. He keyed back up "Your not screwing with me right"? I sat back and said can't you tell it's the same radio.
He laughed and said Your on 25.995 !!

To this day- a radio made (CB radio!) was working on 25Mhz blows my mind to this day! Sadly I never got to finish the modding and have many unanswered questions as to its capability both in the CHIP and Radio's Bandwidth. Lord tell me- someone else has modded this puppy too?

[elrod]

HUH ?

[uzi9mmauto]

Originally Posted by elrod

HUH ?

I'm sorry- I'm so used to everyone know what I know and I didn't mean to take that for granted here. Here is the O2A Chip and its MOD
PLL 02A MODS aka the 'PLL Chip' that gives you the Channels 1-40 in circuit with a Crystal at times. The Radio being Sears Roadtalker also has a PLL chip but was deemed unmodifiable. (so we saw a Similarity to the O2A Chip) In most chips there are Legs that lead nowhere on the board expect to solder. Then others that is circuit is cut from connections will change the overall Frequency. Other legs if Voltage is added or put to ground will do the same.

Then other leads attached to others will also alter it's Frequency and makes certain Legs 'live'.
This is where the Cutting, Grounding, Adding etc to the PLL Chip's Traces makes world of difference. You may be wondering why they are like this.

The reason being is the chips were muti-purpose for 'export' Radio and 10 meter Hams. Which instead of 26.995-27.405 We are looking at 28.0000 to 29.9999 or 24.0000 to 32.0000mhz
Those will have 'BAND Switch. A,B,C,D,E,F etc They have a already wired , single rotary switch. Sadly when you MOD your CB- you end up with several ugly switches instead.

The frequency is limited by the Radio's bandwidth too. I NEVER in my entire life-ever-ever MODDED a CB to go below 26.5** Mhz til is cut out 100%. I wonder how HIGH the Radio will go too? (Since I was unable to finish the MOD) One rule that is generally true is SSB Radio seem to be able to get More than 40 channels above and below before it cuts out. Well- I hope this does answers the Huh? question. :-)

[k3cfc]

I have modded these and a lot more. there is a trick to broadband these radios to keep them from going into lock up and get 4 watts or better from 26.000-28.045 in order no skips in the 5 a channels.


K3CFC