Scored more killer free CB gear

[FPR1981]

I feel like the luckiest radio guy on earth. Saturday night I met a man who used to own a CB shop. He came to my band show at a large Eagles lodge.

I was loading in and he saw the antenna on my Pilot and asked questions. He is now.a ham, but I remembered him from his CB shop days.

We had some nice conversation, at which time he suggested I should come down to his place sometime and see what he had left.

After our first set, he asked if I would dedicate a song to him and his wife, and so I did. He then took my name and number. He texted me yesterday with pictures of his remaining base stations.

One of them was a Teaberry T-Command 40-channel base station with the gold face and knobs. That, coincidentally, was my very first base station.

I told him I don't see many of them on eBay. We continued texting and he told me to stop down by later.

I got to his house, and he gave me the Teaberry base, handed me a President HR2510 that he still had a few of and told me to take it, then gave me his cheater cables for wiring mics (mic jacks with alligator clips on the other end), a bunch of 4 and 5 pin mic jacks, a lighted PDC-600 meter rig, two NIB SWR and field strength meters, service manuals and a caddy full of old vacuum tubes.

I'm not sure what I've done to be so lucky, but I'll take it!

 

[mmckenna]

Being in the right place at the right time is a big part of it.

It's rare that I actually have to -buy- a radio. Working in the two way radio industry, it's fairly easy to get your hands on old equipment that just needs a little TLC.

Nice score. Better for that stuff to end up in the hands of someone that will use and appreciate it, rather than end up in the landfill.

 

[FPR1981]

Same here. I've scored a 135XLR Cobra 40-channel SSB base, a GalaxyDX66 mobile, a 200-watt (PEP) linear, several Midland and Cobra mobiles and microphones all for free in the last 60 days.

For $100 I bought a box containing two Silver Eagle D-104s, a Galaxy DX33 HML, a President Teddy R, a Maxon MCB-45w, a CDL 8-wire rotor box, several hand mics and an MFJ antenna analyzer.

An HR2510, though? That's a new kind of lucky, LOL.

 

[mmckenna]

An HR2510, though? That's a new kind of lucky, LOL.

The spirit of Marconi was smiling upon you.

 

[FPR1981]

Now, here's the funny part about the HR2510. It was given to me sans microphone, but that box of CB gear I scored back in January has a stock President HR2510 microphone in it, with no end on it -- almost like that was a sign of the future!

Now I need to figure out which color wire goes to which pin number. I have googled around and most wiring diagrams I see address aftermarket mics, like Astatic, and not the factory mic.

 

[RFI-EMI-GUY]

The aftermarket mics sometimes provide info on wiring to common radio models.

Looks like CB is on its way back!

 

[K4EET]

Very nice acquisition there, my friend. Right price too!

 

[KI4GNX]

Check the attached file for wiring. I have not verified the accuracy. Should be #14.