TRC-504

[SmileySixguns]

This was a pretty cool find on eBay that I received today. The power plug that the guy had on it was the style that goes in the lighter outlet and has a red and black plastic terminal so you can just put bare wires into it and tighten them down. I wanted to get one just for the ability to put eyelets on the base station radios so they could be connected to either a power supply that uses a cigarette lighter outlet or I can connect them to the small stud on my boat battery. To buy a brand new power adapter was gonna be about $15. This guy was selling the whole CB with that power adapter on it for $15. So whether or not the CB actually worked wasn’t very important. But it arrived today and I took it out to the truck, connected everything up and all functions worked just fine! It’s very basic, but it has decent sound and the price was great.

 

[KB4MSZ]

I have the manual for that radio, someone else on here was asking for it.

 

[SmileySixguns]

Oh, very cool! I definitely appreciate that! I printed it out already. I try to keep one in the box with each different radio.

 

[merlin]

They were decent radios in their day. Nice find.

 

[SmileySixguns]

Its microphone has the channel changing buttons on the top of it which seems pretty handy. I connected a cigarette lighter plug to it last night, so I’m gonna take it out driving with me next time I go

 

[SmileySixguns]

And something else I noticed which I really like is, according to the manual, it’s intended to run on 12v, vs most of the other brands that seem to recommend 13.8v. I used to go camping a good bit with the Cub Scouts, and I bought a Jackery power station. The Jackery puts out 12v. I’m not sure how much of a difference it makes, but I do know that when I’m tinkering at my bench that I can put out the 12v very conveniently.

 

[slowmover]

Some radios are 24V.