RadioBanter - View Single Post - Double Super Hetrodyne what does this do in a CB Radio ?

February 5th 06, 12:31 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors

On 2/4/06 11:49 AM, in article , "de Mac"
wrote:

Many CB radios were so good they were converted to 10M and were
appreciated
for their advance design.

Don

advanced design?
sry om had nothing to do with advanced design

cb radios were converted to 10 meters
because they were cheap and easy
often conversion took little more than one rock and alignment

could pick up all kinds of non runing cb rigs for free
often took only a hour or two and few junk box parts
now had free cb rig ready to convert to ten meters

brand new surplus High Gain 23 channel boards
sold for as little as $12.99
less if you bought more than one board
no case, no knobs, no pots no meter or switches
few hours work, few parts
now had cheap kick around ten meter qrp lash up

at one time there were at least 25 ops
in and around Detroit running converted cb radios
don't think any of us, had more than 100 bucks invested

yes there were some very well made cb radios
there were some very poorly made cb radios

it was not advanced design
that caused so many to be converted to ten meters

Mac w8znx

Don't apologize, you are correct that there were both good and mediocre CB
equipment available..... So what's new? Same with ham gear.

Some if us went for quality, not cheapest. If you convert crap you still had
crap. Mine was dual conversion and had a great noise canceller.

Don