Scott Dorsey wrote:
Gary Schafer wrote:

Sorry to report that I can't find them! I thought I had several small
drawers with CB crystals of various frequencies. They may be around
here somewhere. I spent about an hour looking for them but no luck.


Try your local CB shop and see... there are a lot of them out there.
Ask around at a nearby truckstop and they'll tell you who does that
stuff.

Most of those guys probably have an old 23 channel solid state rig in
the parts bin somewhere that they'll give you to cannibalize for crystals.
--scott


Possibly, but sometime around the great trucker phenomenon, the crystal
manufacturers weren't able to keep up with the demand for CB crystals,
and so the synthesized 23 channel CB was born. You will need to find
a CB that was built earlier than about 1975.

I haven't seen a "local CB shop" since about 1975. I must hang out in
the wrong circles. I wasn't aware that anyone tried to make a living
fixing CB's anymore.

-Chuck Harris

Chuck Harris wrote:

I haven't seen a "local CB shop" since about 1975. I must hang out in
the wrong circles. I wasn't aware that anyone tried to make a living
fixing CB's anymore.

Tune to the lower part of the 10M band and you'll hear plenty of them
advertising. There's one that is on rt. 295 in Virginia that can be
heard all over the 6M band with their every-fifteen-minute advertising
message which the broadcast on channel 19 with some sort of mistuned
bandsplatter machine.

I think most of these shops make their money from installation and
modification work more than repair work, but there are quite a few around.
Not like during the CB craze of the seventies at all, but check your local
truckstop.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Subject: Hammarlund CB-23: need crystals
From: (Scott Dorsey)
Date: 4/14/2004 10:22 AM Mountain Standard Time
Message-id:

Chuck Harris wrote:

I haven't seen a "local CB shop" since about 1975. I must hang out in
the wrong circles. I wasn't aware that anyone tried to make a living
fixing CB's anymore.

Tune to the lower part of the 10M band and you'll hear plenty of them
advertising. There's one that is on rt. 295 in Virginia that can be
heard all over the 6M band with their every-fifteen-minute advertising
message which the broadcast on channel 19 with some sort of mistuned
bandsplatter machine.

I think most of these shops make their money from installation and
modification work more than repair work, but there are quite a few around.
Not like during the CB craze of the seventies at all, but check your local
truckstop.

Indeed, there are still many local CB repair shops to be found. In Northern
Utah (Ogden), there is a repair shop at the Flying J truck stop, and business
has been so good lately that the tech who runs the shop in Ogden has had an
apprentice set up a repair shop at another truck stop about 40 miles north.
Also, whenever the DX rolls into Utah, there are repair shops located in
Oklahoma City and El Paso that can be heard hawking their wares on channel 19.
The local CB shop is still very much alive and well.

73,
David