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Old November 24th 04, 02:58 AM
Steveo
 
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Frank Gilliland wrote:
On 24 Nov 2004 00:39:28 GMT, Steveo
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jrd wrote:
only a few hours left. Looks like its gonna go cheap!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...501&item=57332
179 25&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Those roadtalkers used to be good radios. Remember those, Frank?


I have a few in the scrap heap (bad mods). I even have a JC Penney SSB
model and an identical SSB Roadtalker. I tried to get one of them
working with parts from both. Turns out the VCO isn't designed to
cover bandwidth much larger than the CB (which is probably why the
mods didn't work), and barely worked at all after being 'tweaked' by
whatever moron did the mods.

It's a real shame to see decent radios destroyed by twits who can't be
satisfied with 40 channels.

Yep, I had one years ago and the audio was sweet on SSB. It would be
nice to find one that hasn't been screw-drivered yet.

My friend had the JC model and that was tall cotton back then.