Pace Side Top 1000 B

[AlphaFive]

Someone has had a Pace Side Top 1000 B in storage for 30 years or more and is considering giving it to me. Before that happens I have been trying to research the specifications to understand the radio and it's capabilities, before I lay my paws on it.
First off, even though I have been scanning since the mid 1970's, I have never used anything like the Pace, or studied the bands it occupies. I have no interest at all in transmitting, and won't be utilizing that function.
So, I need to understand why the specifications in the online manual I found indicate the Pace Side Top 1000 B utilizes frequencies of 26.965 through 27.255, but the 'Crystal Frequency Chart' lists the crystals as operation at 11 and 7 mhz. Am I looking at some kind of receiving filter situation?? Does this older radio operate down into 11 and 7 MHz?
I realize the unit operates on the C.B. channels as they were set up in 1976, and also my question likely has something to do with USB and LSB. I am having difficulty understanding how the lower crystal frequencies fit into the picture. Thank you for your time...........I am going to continue trying to read about LSB and USB

 

[SCPD]

Pace radio

Someone has had a Pace Side Top 1000 B in storage for 30 years or more and is considering giving it to me. Before that happens I have been trying to research the specifications to understand the radio and it's capabilities, before I lay my paws on it.
First off, even though I have been scanning since the mid 1970's, I have never used anything like the Pace, or studied the bands it occupies. I have no interest at all in transmitting, and won't be utilizing that function.
So, I need to understand why the specifications in the online manual I found indicate the Pace Side Top 1000 B utilizes frequencies of 26.965 through 27.255, but the 'Crystal Frequency Chart' lists the crystals as operation at 11 and 7 mhz. Am I looking at some kind of receiving filter situation?? Does this older radio operate down into 11 and 7 MHz?
I realize the unit operates on the C.B. channels as they were set up in 1976, and also my question likely has something to do with USB and LSB. I am having difficulty understanding how the lower crystal frequencies fit into the picture. Thank you for your time...........I am going to continue trying to read about LSB and USB

I don't remember any tube type Pace radios, so you should be good to just put this on the air. I don't see, unless you think it was in a wet or very damp place, that any tolerances would of changed. Give it a quick look over for any rust on it. If there is none, like I said, talk on it.

The two frequencies you listed are IF frequencies, internal to the radio for filtering and mixing, not to be confused with the frequencies you will be talking and listening to.

 

[AlphaFive]

Pace 1000 B

That's exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much. Maybe I'll be adding Pace to my little family soon. I have a lot to learn, and that's what is enjoyable about this hobby. Take care.

 

[JayMojave]

Hello A5: That's a older 23 channel radio made in and around 1975 before the 40 channel radios came out. But older radios are kind of neat to have on the radio desk.

See: Pace Communications Corp. "Sidetalk CB 1000B"

Hopefully it will work ok for you as most radios at that age have some sort of filter capacitor problems.

The Upper Side Band (USB) and Lower Side Band (LSB) channels are mostly used on channel 36, 37, mostly 38, 39 and 40, now a days. Be advised. Good luck.

Jay in the Great Mojave Desert

 

[AlphaFive]

Pace 1000 B

Thanks for the response from wayyyyy out there. I am still looking at different sites containing explanations of LSB and USB. I am just starting to comprehend the fact that they are modes, and not necessarily a different set of frequencies. As best I comprehend up to this point, just because a person has their receiver set to 26.xxxx, and a signal is being sent Lower side band, the signal won't necessarily be on a completely different frequency, just the lower side of that same 26.xxxx. I realize there are many more factors than that to consider, and a complete understanding will take a lot of study, but over time I will get a grip on it. Take care out there in the Mojave.