Scored 5 Pace 8041 sun-dial 40 ch from truck fleet

[FPR1981]

I scored a total of five old chrome-face Pace 8041 40-channel CB radios that were a part of someone's work truck fleet 40+ years ago. I paid $5 a radio for them. They're built super heavy and look really cool. Originally, I wrote them off as 23-channel, due to the sun dials, but as it turns out, they're all 40-channel.

Kind of cool radios. I've never seen this model before.

 

[slowmover]

That radio is a truly excellent example of what men try to convey when they express the desire for a radio that’s no-nonsense “simple”.

A few controls, and a lay-out which emphasizes separation of those.

Had they been fitted with a large S-Meter (as with Galaxy), I’d have agreed. I’ve found that there are signals both weak and strong, but that distance isn’t always obvious. Not intuitive. Where the meter is an aid (its exactitude or accuracy not the concern).

One of the last of those (discontinued since circa 2022) was the Galaxy 919.

Front mic
Large Meter
AM-only
RF power (run an amp)

A “premium” radio versus Cobra or Uniden. A few more features. But with the expectation the truck driver has more of an interest in operation.



Notably not as simple in lay-out.
It’s to Vol, SQ & RFG.

The radio obtained by the OP has simplicity emphasized to an extent I think it may have contributed to longevity.

There are moments where one needs to have adjusted something ten minutes ago. (Adrenaline hit). Radios can take a beating, then.

One “moved up” to SSB versions with yet more features and it wasn’t intuitive to make adjustments without visual confirmation for quite a long period of acquaintance.

That PACE radio is distinctly handsome.

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[prcguy]

Those radios are related to the Pace CB166 featured in one of the Smokey and the Bandit movies, which idiots are asking upwards of $1,200 for but nobody is buying or ever will. In fact there is another idiot with a new in box Pace 8041 asking $416.50 even though a NIB version might be worth around $40.

I worked at Pace when the CB166 model came out and bought one, it was a pretty good basic radio and the first PLL synthesized CB that Pace sold. With some external switches it could do a whole lotta channels. The CB166 and the 8041 may have been made by Kokusi in Japan...or was it from a newer vendor in Korea....I can't remember. Anyway the 8041 came out about a year after I left the company around late 1976.

 

[slowmover]

 

[FPR1981]

Very interesting video! I haven't yet done any bench testing.

These radios use a 4-pin microphone. Does anyone remember off the top of their head if this is wired like Cobra/Uniden/President 4 pin, Uniden Teaberry 4-pin or the 4-pin Royce? I didn't get microphones with every radio. I'm either going to be wiring some microphones or digging out my mic adapters.

 

[FPR1981]

Let me add another humorous twist to this...

The same person who sold me the five radios pictured just contacted me and sent me a picture with the message, "You get first shot on any of this."

I count 16 more, plus I spy an SBE Trinidad base, Lafayette base, an old white-face Midland base, a classic President mobile and a crap ton of modern compact 40 channel radios.

Any one of them is mine for $5 each.