DaveC1964
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What Radio Shack WT do you have?
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Curious about a good source for "antique" CB walkie talkie information
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FPR1981
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Realistic TRC-216. It's a mini base station.
DaveC1964
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Ok nice, I don't have one of those in my collection yet. I have a TRC-101B, TRC-217, and a massive TRC-209. I imagine they are all pretty similar in performance as they are from the same period.
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Don't Deploy the antenna ! keep it down..
To get your power reading you can purchase or make a 50 Ohm load..I wouldn't use 1 resistor you should use multiples in series or Parallel
as long as you get 50 ohms..You could google this on the web to get an idea.
You could feed an antenna as long as its got a good SWR reading to get a max power reading.
Peter N1EXA
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So would any antenna attached to the meter work? Theoretically some short cheap mobile antenna would be good enough for that purpose right? If an antenna didn't have good SWR does that mean the power rating measurement is not accurate?
Also what would happen if the built in antenna was extended while connected to the meter?
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Thought I'd revive this thread....just wondering how you made out with your handhelds?.....I recently picked up two TRC-216's, I keep one as a mobil unit, and now use the other in place of where I had a much larger CB that I used as a base right by my PC, the 216 is so small it really isn't in the way like my other radio was, I made my own 1/4 wave antenna several years ago which still works great, I used the SO239 adapter to connect it up, I don't talk much with it, just mostly listen, if I decide to talk I'll used the hand mic from one of my many RS car CB's I own, living right next to interstate 80, there's still plenty of truckers chatting on these old CB's.
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