CB with 10 meters. Is it worthwhile?

[CAvoyager1960]

That would be huge for me; have a scanner in the car to monitor county FD and my Vol FD. Could remove the scanner in such a case.

It's not that simple... it only comes with weather channel frequencies. You have to connect it to a computer to program other freq (using a special USB cord that comes with the radio) You also have to use windows (I use Linux but lucky I ad an old laptop with windows 8) So... you need to know the exact freq you want. I'm in the process of doing that myself. Also, keep in mind you will be using a 10/11 meter antenna (it's only going to need to receive so might work OK) You can download the program from the radio website.

 

[Don_Burke]

Some of the "10 meter" radios are thinly disguised freeband radios.

Some of those are not very useful on 10 meters.

 

[kc2asb]

Some of the "10 meter" radios are thinly disguised freeband radios.

Some of those are not very useful on 10 meters.

Exactly. That is how they get them on to the U.S. market, and probably 9 out 10 of them are modified to operate on CB and freeband channels.

 

[K9KLC]

Exactly. That is how they get them on to the U.S. market, and probably 9 out 10 of them are modified to operate on CB and freeband channels.

These radios have been around a long long time, and I suspect they're going to be. Before these, we swapped crystals around in crystal radios to end up slightly below CH 1 or did some crystal switching in the 23 CH rigs to have a different multiplier. A wrecker CO I worked for only sparsely in the winters for a couple years was on 26.800 which we accomplished by switching the CH 23 crystals (swapped the transmit and receive and visa versa) this worked in the Sonar E's and G's and the Johnson Messenger 1&2.

I think my first exposure was a Ranger AR-3500 then the President HR-2510 and RCI 2950 and all their off shoots. Galaxy was big in the late 80s and early 90's and I guess still is today. Obviously Anytone, has joined the game now and President is still in the game. For whatever the reason this new President Washington is beckoning to me. I owned multiple of the Washington's thru out the years (the bases) and I've had most incarnations of the 2510, 2600, Lincoln and similar radios.
I don't know that I'll end up pulling the switch on one but for some reason out of all the things out there, that and that alone might pry me away from the 2510 I've had since setting it up in 1996 or 97 and doing a "few" modifications to it. There's an old saying " if it ain't broke don't fix it" and that's where I"m at on things but that Washington though......

 

[kc2asb]

These radios have been around a long long time, and I suspect they're going to be. Before these, we swapped crystals around in crystal radios to end up slightly below CH 1 or did some crystal switching in the 23 CH rigs to have a different multiplier. A wrecker CO I worked for only sparsely in the winters for a couple years was on 26.800 which we accomplished by switching the CH 23 crystals (swapped the transmit and receive and visa versa) this worked in the Sonar E's and G's and the Johnson Messenger 1&2.

I think my first exposure was a Ranger AR-3500 then the President HR-2510 and RCI 2950 and all their off shoots. Galaxy was big in the late 80s and early 90's and I guess still is today. Obviously Anytone, has joined the game now and President is still in the game. For whatever the reason this new President Washington is beckoning to me. I owned multiple of the Washington's thru out the years (the bases) and I've had most incarnations of the 2510, 2600, Lincoln and similar radios.
I don't know that I'll end up pulling the switch on one but for some reason out of all the things out there, that and that alone might pry me away from the 2510 I've had since setting it up in 1996 or 97 and doing a "few" modifications to it. There's an old saying " if it ain't broke don't fix it" and that's where I"m at on things but that Washington though......

The HR-2510/2600 and the Ranger RCI-29X0 were (and still are) among the best of these export/10 meter rigs. They are legitimate 10 meter radios.

Galaxy and President are still big players, as you said. Some of the current 10 meter/export radios look more like classic CB's with only a channel readout. The current Washington is an exception and by most accounts is a solid radio.

I still have my 2510, but when I hooked it up over a year ago, it was completely dead. It was stored on a shelf in the shack, not hooked up to power or an antenna. Getting it repaired may not be worth the cost. Keep using that 2510 as long as it keeps going!

 

[slowmover]

These radios have been around a long long time, and I suspect they're going to be. Before these, we swapped crystals around in crystal radios to end up slightly below CH 1 or did some crystal switching in the 23 CH rigs to have a different multiplier. A wrecker CO I worked for only sparsely in the winters for a couple years was on 26.800 which we accomplished by switching the CH 23 crystals (swapped the transmit and receive and visa versa) this worked in the Sonar E's and G's and the Johnson Messenger 1&2.

I think my first exposure was a Ranger AR-3500 then the President HR-2510 and RCI 2950 and all their off shoots. Galaxy was big in the late 80s and early 90's and I guess still is today. Obviously Anytone, has joined the game now and President is still in the game. For whatever the reason this new President Washington is beckoning to me. I owned multiple of the Washington's thru out the years (the bases) and I've had most incarnations of the 2510, 2600, Lincoln and similar radios.
I don't know that I'll end up pulling the switch on one but for some reason out of all the things out there, that and that alone might pry me away from the 2510 I've had since setting it up in 1996 or 97 and doing a "few" modifications to it. There's an old saying " if it ain't broke don't fix it" and that's where I"m at on things but that Washington though......

The non-NRC mobile radios need:



With the DRX-901 given any radio.



Wouldn’t be “cheap”, but it’d keep an obsolete tech radio viable, longer.

Lacking TX NRC is the only downside past Sideband performance.

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[K9KLC]

The HR-2510/2600 and the Ranger RCI-29X0 were (and still are) among the best of these export/10 meter rigs. They are legitimate 10 meter radios.

Galaxy and President are still big players, as you said. Some of the current 10 meter/export radios look more like classic CB's with only a channel readout. The current Washington is an exception and by most accounts is a solid radio.

I still have my 2510, but when I hooked it up over a year ago, it was completely dead. It was stored on a shelf in the shack, not hooked up to power or an antenna. Getting it repaired may not be worth the cost. Keep using that 2510 as long as it keeps going!

I intend to. I personally set that up when I had the shop going and there's likely not another one exactly like it in the country. I made numerous receive mods to it and ya ok a couple of transmit ones. LOL. My Daughter I think still has the RCI 2950 I set up for her and again, numerous receive mods (some of which are now in the later release radios) to make that thing actually receive at least close to the 2510. For some reason the RCI's always filled the pattern a little better on SSB but the 2510 was the better AM talker and overall I liked the receive on the 2510 a little better after some modifications were done. I used it on both CB and 10 meters, 10 meter was SSB and CW.

Sorry to hear yours isn't lighting up, that can be a whole host of things, some easy to fix and some maybe not so easy perhaps some day you'll be able to get it going. Yep at today's prices depending on what it is, it may or may not be worth fixing. if I still had my shop we could "talk" about it . Now it's just something me and a couple of ham buddies tinker with on the side, my one friend having all the stuff to make this all happen at his place.