Who makes the smallest SSB CB radios?

[WB9YBM]

You are probably going to have to buy from offshore and pay for express shipping to the US. Maybe Amazon has some.

I found this, cant vouch for them.

CBShop - Communicating our passion

Winkel en webshop in zend en ontvangst apparatuur, 27Mc specialist, bakkie winkel, midland, president, tti, intek

www.cbshop.com

When I looked into this a few years ago (for other applications) I found out that radios can be bought from foreign radio stores if the buyer here in the U.S. provides a copy of their ham radio license...

 

[Retroradio]

Who is President "Mike"?

The Pesident line of radios, Model:: Mike FCC. A very small AM CB radio. A local has one and its pretty neat.

BILL FCC - AM-transceivers - CB-Radios - Group President Electronics USA

BILL FCC - AM-transceivers - CB-Radios

president-electronics.us

I Have no affiliation with them just was looking for a small radio for my non radio friendly vehicle due to its lack of room.

 

[reedeb]

Is this one of them?

Pc122 | eBay

<p dir="ltr">Pc122. Condition is "Used". Radio only this radio has screaming audio. With npc mod does 3 watts peak 30 watts on my bird watt meter on a peak rms 12 watts great talker has unlocked clarifier ready to go radio is am usb lsb talks all bands peaked and tuned </p>

www.ebay.com

Yess it be a PC122

 

[n7lrg]

The McKinley speaker is forward facing. That is a plus for me as I am running it as a base station. It is stacked in a 4 tier stationary organizer with other radios, scanners and power supply.

 

[press1280]

Some of the old Realistics (TRC-465, 453) were fairly compact SSB rigs back in the day.

 

[WB9YBM]

Especially if the op is involved in longer conversations, even a low-power (4 watt) radio's finals can get warm--made worse on smaller radios with less heat-sink--add to that heat from summer weather in warmer climates in cars before the A/C gets going. In situations like this, I'm not sure if the adage "smaller is better" is such a good idea...

 

[W9WSS]

Extreme hot or cold weather is NOT your friend with communications gear. I was having issues with one of my Motorola Astro Spectra 110 watt combination P25 digital/analog mobile radios. The radio itself is mounted in the trunk, and the control head is in my Jotto Desk console. It would give an error code (sorry, I forget the letter/number), and until it either warmed up or cooled down after several minutes it just sat there in the error mode. So take a $150 CB radio, or a $2000 Motorola professional public safety radio one thing is for sure: THEY HATE EXTREME HEAT OR COLD.

I wonder how public safety agencies in Alaska, Siberia, Africa, or the North Pole handle these weather extremes with their communications devices?

 

[jonwienke]

Displays don't like cold, but transistors do...

 

[WB9YBM]

Extreme hot or cold weather is NOT your friend with communications gear. I was having issues with one of my Motorola Astro Spectra 110 watt combination P25 digital/analog mobile radios. The radio itself is mounted in the trunk, and the control head is in my Jotto Desk console. It would give an error code (sorry, I forget the letter/number), and until it either warmed up or cooled down after several minutes it just sat there in the error mode. So take a $150 CB radio, or a $2000 Motorola professional public safety radio one thing is for sure: THEY HATE EXTREME HEAT OR COLD.

I wonder how public safety agencies in Alaska, Siberia, Africa, or the North Pole handle these weather extremes with their communications devices?

That reminds me of some solid state component spec's I once saw while working at Motorola: seems like I.C.s come in 3 temperature ranges: military grade, commercial grade (the two most common types everyone's familiar with) and automotive grade (I hadn't heard about that third one until I cam across a data manual listing this type of components). The least expensive's the commercial stuff (also had the most limited operating temperature range), with the military grade being the most expensive (and best operating temperature range) with automotive grade being in the middle (prices & temp specs)...

 

[slowmover]

Begs the question: why are they alike to us?

— In what is an extreme of temperature for a
human is lost the ability to focus.

— That equivalent loss is seen in pretty much every device we invent under the same difficult temperatures.

— Its not enough to say, “we didn’t build it for that” (as these are inanimate objects, supposedly).


What resurrects (animates) the airplane cobbled together in, The Flight of the Phoenix?

.

 

[krokus]

That reminds me of some solid state component spec's I once saw while working at Motorola: seems like I.C.s come in 3 temperature ranges: military grade, commercial grade (the two most common types everyone's familiar with) and automotive grade (I hadn't heard about that third one until I cam across a data manual listing this type of components). The least expensive's the commercial stuff (also had the most limited operating temperature range), with the military grade being the most expensive (and best operating temperature range) with automotive grade being in the middle (prices & temp specs)...

There is space rated, too. Basically military temperatures, or more, plus radiation hardened. (For prolonged exposure, not single event upset.)

 

[WB9YBM]

There is space rated, too. Basically military temperatures, or more, plus radiation hardened. (For prolonged exposure, not single event upset.)

Hadn't heard about that one yet--thank you for getting me updated!