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Niceguy71... ever seen these?
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slowmover
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Ssssh, he’s busy soldering an RFX-75 into each of these
niceguy71
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nope never heard of them or seen them... very cool though....... I try not to own anything less than one watt.... someday I'll buy a set of my first walkie talkies... 1960's Sears trans talk 600 they were 100 Milli watts.... my mom spent a bundle on a pair... she made minimum wage so it was a huge chunk of money... and they never worked ...brand new out of the box.... she bought them to call my dad when he was at the barn on our property.
I see them on E-bay all the time for $25 bucks.. this guy must be crazy
I tinkered with them for years trying to make them work and finally saved up enough money to buy a
Radio Shack TRC 214, one watt 3 channel CB .... I tried getting someone to came back to me on that for over a year and dozens upon dozens of batteries.... never got a sole to reply to me on channel 14 that it came with....
I should have given up on handheld CB's but the bug had bitten me and I was going to get some that worked before I died no matter what
niceguy71
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I enjoy watching this guy on Youtube... he restores old walkie talkies.... amazing what he does.. making cases with a 3D printer and improving the range ( putting better parts into them) this is a pair of 100 milli watt radios and he is able to talk to his son across a big field..... I'm pretty impressed with that...
wish I had the know how to fix this old stuff.
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When I was a kid, one of my first jobs was at Seaworld in Ohio. I had several memorable experiences (One with a Tommy Bartlett water ski girl) . One of the first tasks they gave me was fixing a box of CB walkies talkies. I took them home and from 5, I got 4 to work.
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