I know every one of my subscribers will understand my love and theory for this topic.. There are still tons of people that know nothing about ham radio, but they have an interest in CB radio (11 meters). Encourage them to come here, teach them something don't bash them about CB radio.......Encourage them to continue in CB radio and when they walk through this 3 day convention they will have a very CLEAR perspective of what ham radio is all about. Sometimes, It takes one of us to invite a CB enthusiast to a hamfest to avoid the fear of going or lack of knowledge....CB is The gateway drug into this hobby. There is enough material on KZread about all the new products and vendors.. Let's drive some interest into the tailgate section to get someone started...

@Dallas-Rife-UDX-347-Tennessee

4 жыл бұрын

Never heard of the ham-fest in Orlando ?? Is it annual ? Thanks for posting , I’ve had my ticket for 7 years now, but I’m still a CB enthusiast as well . I will check out more videos on your channel 👌

@eliwilson3714

4 жыл бұрын

Read my post below. I started there (CB) and I am now where I wanted to be back then. You either have the radio lust or you don't. Encourage ANY young person to get 'The Knack" (hahah) for radio. There's no better sense of achievement than talking to someone off a homemade Quad than some stupid internet channel.

@eliwilson3714

4 жыл бұрын

"CB is The gateway drug into this hobby." In eight words you nailed it buddy! Drop your mic. (well, no not really)

@DEplinker

4 жыл бұрын

Howdy to Scott and George! I might go double or nothing they'll be an 11 meter antenna among the antenna farm on the truck that never will see an antenna. lol

@robertwalling9010

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha cb is the gateway drug! :D

"Junk: stuff that I don't need, but I can't live without." Love it. 👍👍👍

Grew up with an interest in electronics, installed a CB radio in my Jeep when I was 26, heard them shooting skip and immediately wondered what was out there beyond the little bit of RF I was listening to. Here we are 8 years later, working on my General!

@juana.w0jalabellon277

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Ham Radio & Congratulations !

690 R my first ham radio . Worked the world on 2.5 watts back in 1992 . Later added a 25 watt linear, even better . Now it seems the bare minimum is 100 watts. Love 6m.

just like me at a ham fest "Do I need it? No. Do I want it? Yes" lol

I have a D104 mic collection, now they are just trophies. also had a few old tube radios in my day. Thanks for the video i enjoy seeing the old radios.

Great job love to see the older stuff there no one ever shows that from cb to ham stuff thank you :)

I love the old days ham,cb,old cars it's nice to reflect on , because you we were younger and mind flood's with who was there the car you had ect.just awesome. Tnx Eric another great video that people will watch over over and rember to some these day's are their good old ! Be cool and respect their time ,your action today is your memories of tomarow see be careful and collected good shit in you're head

I love old CB radios too!

Talked to a ton of 690r's back in the late 80's early 90's! Smooth audio, nice sounding radios! I used an Icom IC-551 and a Mirage 150 watt amplifier

great finds,.. the D104 is a great mike,as u well know, . i used to have one, in my cb days,.. really miss that one,.. looking forward to all the upcoming vids with yr newly aquired boat anchors... all the best from A9

I am glad that you went to the Orlando Ham Fest I really appreciate it. Because I really wanted to go but didn't have the funds. Maybe next year hopefully I will get to meet you and all the other guys I like to watch here on KZread. And by the way that D-104 brings back memories of when I was a young man back in my 11 meter days. Anyway I am glad that you had a good time and by you going I was able to see what I missed. 73 AE4OY WILLIAM EM-81UF (OLDYELLA) SOUTH East Georgia

I have an old RCI base station in my garage that I hop on to talk with truckers. Killer radio my grandpa has. He got me into CB now I want to get into HAM

CB was my first radio as a kid and got me into the hobby. Just got my license the 12th of February. 73! KI5IED

Love when ever you talk about the Cb stuff thank you

Yes you need to bring radios like this back they need to manufacture these radios again they were great radios I love backpacking with that radio

That place is amazing! I love ham fests and swap meets.

Ham Radio 2.0 is a great channel too. I had a question on an old video and he replied in no time. Very impressive.

Love the Astatic D104 microphone Eric. Mike N6IMY

I may be a ham but CB radios, especially Browning eagles have a huge soft apot for me. The Best friends ive made where on CB and I enjoy it more than HAM but I do both regularly. I was there for this years hamcation and came home with a few scanners and a motorola UHF HT1000 complete kit!

@cindylawrence1515

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Ultra Great STONER CB's remember they had the outboard accessory which allowed you to have AM? Anyone also remember the C.P.I. Luxury line of CB'S?

Looks like fun brother love all that old stuff myself....👍

Hi Eric, Love this video, Almost would want to come up from Australia for Hamcation, So much unbelievable gear, some much history, I can read your passion, well done Peter VK3TQ / VK2LD

Had a couple different mark 3's one I put a Siltronics 90 vfo on it plugged in to the channel 9 crystal socket . That allowed it to transmit on everything above 23 that the receiver could get great old radios .

Takes me back down memory lane. Always wanted a Golden Eagle back in 1972, but they where so expensive. KK7T.

I had CB radios in my vehicles back in the 70's. My friend was a radio man in the Air Force and has the knowledge needed to make our CB stations work properly. He also knows that certain conditions, like being near a lake or having snow on the ground improves transmission signals. We now have stations six miles apart that work very well during the day and at night. Antenna height makes a big difference in transmissions. His antenna is 45 feet high and mine is 54 feet high. Every night, about 10:30 p.m., we talk on channel 32 and often talk with other CB stations thirty miles away. I'm glad I got back into using CB radios.

@wildbanjoman99

4 жыл бұрын

We have a ch 32 club in SE GA! Not like it used to be though

OH MAN!!! You were that close to the Eagles!!! NO GUTS NO GLORY!!! I just knew you were gonna drop that tailgate and we'd hear the PEYAN AN AN AN NGGGG of that Browning keying up! Oh such fond memories of that old radio and a local guy on "Super Bowl 6" that had one, along with a "foot warmer" of course... if you were in a thousand or two yards from him, you knew when he was on the "6" and you were on the opposite end of the 11m band, you'd hear that unique Eagle sound!!!

Fantastic video! I would leave that hamfest broke (we don't have them that awesome here in Australia). FYI the FT690R is a great radio - Internal battery power, telescopic whip and SSB. It's actually worth a LOT more than $40!

Hey! Just thought I’d mention. That solar panel plug in available at auto parts stores, sold for trickle chargers, and you can get it with a pos an neg loop connector. Hope it helps!

I have a Yaesu FT7B and love it. I used to have a Ranger 2970 and it was nice too.

I have had a few of the silver eagle chicken chokers, I still have a head to one. Bad thing about the vintage radios is a lot of times you have to go through and replace a lot of the electrolytics in them as they have dried out and are bad, or close to it. Looks like you had a awesome time . I had my start in the forbidden band myself and have a wolverine number but can't remember it. I probably have it written down somewhere. Longest contact I made on 11 meters was a gentleman in Naples Italy one summer morning. 73

I still have one of the first Motorola Mocat 40s that hit my town back in the late 70s.

Hi Eric, thank you so much for making this video, the old Browning station brought back some good memories from my first years discovering radio. Like most of us, I started with CB and those discovery years were the best. The only problem with used radios at hamfest is that you may end up with stuff you really don’t need just because it got you a bit emotional, hihi. Keep up the good work. 73 Pascal VA2PV

John here I had the Silronix 1011D with a non peer D-104 loved it my dad had Swan 500 and 1100 watts Swam linar we talked all the time at that time phone calls long distance calling so we used the radio.s

I saw so many cool vintage rigs at HamCation!

I'm a ham and still use 11m. Why not?

Dad had a Golden Eagle in the early '70s. The ping you hear when the mike was keyed was intentional. You were on top of the world if you had one. The counterpart to the Golden Eagle called a Demco Super Satellite. We had one of those too and when toy keyed the mike on that one, it sounded like someone dropped a ping pong ball when you transmitted. Love the Comstat 35 and the D-104 lollypop mike you showed early on in your video. Had 'em both when I was in my 20s and loved 'em both. Even though they were the same radio inside, the Comstat 35 was direct competition for the Robyn T-123B, aka the egg cooker. So named because of the HUGE amount of heat generated by the tubes inside it while the set was up and running. With the range boost on the Comstat 35, and the D-104 mike, it was indeed possible for you to overmodulate and sound very distorted to those who were listening to you. There was no was no way that you could use the range boost and crank up the modulation on the D-104 and use them together to boost your output . You could only use one or the other to boost your signal strength. Hope you enjoy your new Golden Eagle, we certainly did!

I used a D104 " silver sucker " for years , great audio

Ive always been happy on CB with different amplifiers and radios.

I want that rig, looks like a super good bargain if no repairs are required. It looks mint!

Well said my friend... a great way to encourage the youth to get into the hobby.. 73s Robert Haines City FL...

The D104 is a classic radio mic! You’ll love it! 73 de K2CJB

This was awesome !

I am drooling seeing all that tube equipment ...lol

@spankthemonkey3437

4 жыл бұрын

Carlisle Forrester I love tubes😉 lol jk

Guess Eric. I had the two meter version. It's awesome radio. I wish Yaesu brings back radio like this It had its own little pack. It mounts to it. You can run 25 watts. Really cool radio

I miss them old CB radios. I too had a Golden Eagle. Wish I never sold mines. Watching this video makes me want to get back into it. "Do I need it?" No! " Do I want it?" Yes! LoL! Did you end up buying the Golden Eagle Radio? Look forward to more of these videos.

I have an old ht1200 vhf handy for 2 meters, planning to use it for qrp dx later this summer. Might prove interesting because of the super long telescoping whip it has on it lol, what’s cool is it also has a hand mic, it’s a brick otherwise. None of my radios require tubes though.

I've still got a maco 300 timestamp 3:15 Nice loud amp! Great video! Also don't cheat yourself out of actually using the D-104 they are great mics! You might want to pop the face off and see if it's got the original mic pickup in the head of it. Cheers man!

Wow, I can remember my Moonraker on a 75’ crank up tower at my house. Was using a Yaesu with a 2000 watt amplifier. I probably had every kind of radio sold to try including all the ham units. In my car I had a Browning LTD that had well over a100 channels with a Palomar 200 watt amp. I was the king of the hill back in those days. I used to sell CB’s back then and a lot of NY State trooper had CB’s sold by me. I still have a Browning LTD in my motorhome with a 100 watt Palomar amp. No fun anymore. When the skip used to come in I would talk to just about every state and country there is. My dad had a General license at the time and I would get all kinds of flack from him.

I have been going to Ham Fests in South Texas since 2003. There is always a HUGE amount of CB gear and there are ALWAYS a bunch of Mexican National Truck Drivers. They will buy ANYTHING with a heat sink on it.

Wished the ham Radio Rally's were like that in the UK. Its very difficult to find used equipment like that (a) in good working order, and (b) at bargain price.

i still have my Yaesu ft-690R II it works great! real good 6m radio.

Nice Galaxy 550...one of the radios in QST that I used to dream about getting...they were more on the budget end and more in my reach....with Collins on the Luxury end with no possibility of ever owning. Hope you can get it back on the air sometime.

Just so you know,The browning eagle is a Screaming Eagle in the 11 meter world..Thanks for showing use alot of nice radios.

Really enjoyed this video

Great stuff !

I still have my Royse 619 base station still works great. And my silver Eagle.Cobra 21 gtl PC 33 mini 40.

My first CB radio was a Sonic 23 channel mobile radio that had the microphone hard wired in. I used to tune my shortwave radio to the same frequency and key the microphone while moving it close then away from the speaker to get feedback to make everyone think I had a Browning. Good memories of those days. Most of the radios I owned were Cobra. The first antenna I had mounted outside was the Starduster. I think it was made by Antenna Specialists. Like you said, CB is the gateway drug.

@brucebillington8336

2 жыл бұрын

I bought my Antenna Specialists "Starduster" at a Lafayette Radio store in 1976 , in Salem Oregon. It had a DB gain of 5.0. It cost $45 great Antenna. People told me that it would bleed over several channels though. I also bought a 23 channel Lafayette HB-525F radio, it cost $179. I bought the PS-44 power supply so it could be used as a base station, that was $45. The radio would mount to it as a mated unit. I also got the HB-506A portable battery case that would also mount to the back of the radio using the threaded thumb wheels that you would use to mount it in a vehicle to the mounting bracket. It took 10 "C" size NI-CAD batteries that were recharged by plugging in the back of the power supply in a special socket.It had a very long telescopic whip Antenna, a battery meter, and a shoulder harness wit a pad on it. That was $32. It was heavy because everything was made of steel, no plastic except the channel selector with the numbers on it. That was one powerful walkie-talkie. I had to replace the Antenna 3 times because I broke it off getting it snagged on things. $8 each time. I bought a 50' push up pole, $50, 100' of RG-8U Coax w/PL-259 connectors soldered on, $50. I finally bought a Turner +2 desk Mic ,with the connector soldered on, $45. I already had the guy wires, and the eye screws. Lafayette Radio did all the soldering for me in their store. What a fantastic store that was. They even had other name brand products in there. That was my first real CB setup. I was 17 years old, and had a summer job working for the Parks & Recreation in Salem Oregon. No sales tax in Oregon. I had that radio until Nov of 2000 . I would've still had it if my house wouldn't have burned down. Oh well, I'm alive. Those prices weren't too bad back then for high quality electronics, and their accessories. 73's everyone 🙂🙂

CB is for sure the gateway drug for Ham Radio!! Enjoyed the video Eric. KI5HII

wow those prices where awesome!!! that golden eagle at 7:00 would be 500 to 600 around here (Atlanta) unreal the price difference.

Golden Eagles were some serious CB’s back in 1972. That Siltronix is nice also. Seemed like they used to sell for $500 in 1974.

@bigpoppa6998

4 жыл бұрын

Bill Capps my Dad had a set of Golden Eagles when I was young

@eliwilson3714

4 жыл бұрын

I remember keying my D104 at the speaker of my old Radio Shack Navaho base and backing it off slowly. Made a similar Eagle noise. Oh God... Now I'm remembering a local fellow who had legit Eagles with a Laser 500 antenna on a 50ft tower. He OWNED this area. Add to that his 1kW amp and when he keyed you might as well go cut the grass or wash the car. His front to back ratio was such that when he keyed opposite of the rest of us locals, we could barely hear him. Laser 500's were the s' back in the day.

@eliwilson3714

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigpoppa6998 are you into the hobby? If not, what can we do to help you along? Would you like radio references or a link to a local VE testing location? I think everyone here is to help.

@bigpoppa6998

4 жыл бұрын

Eli Wilson I appreciate it but I just was scrolling on KZread and this popped up. I really don’t have a place to put Radio an Neighbor way to close. But thank you very much for your offer.

@DEplinker

4 жыл бұрын

@@eliwilson3714 I had a Navaho Pro Niner back in the day. I'm sure I still got it somewhere along with a Pierce Simpson Bengal SSB, a Pace 2300, and I'm sure my D104 lollipop. It might be time to start digging!

Bob Heil says the thing on the bottom of the D104 is actually an electronic impedance changer from the 50,000 ohm crystal mic to something more usable around 1K.

Nice trip man that ain't junk just used and broke in ready to use

afortunados ustedes de tener mucha tecnología y participar en esas ferias de radio afición Saludos de chile CA2 LSI LUIS

Feed back during the transition from receive to transmit, causes the Browning eagle "ping". It was initially unintended but became famous. At least that's was what I was told.

@mikedemeo5038

3 жыл бұрын

Wow...what a memory jog! We had one local guy who had a Browning. I remember the PING. It was a status symbol!

@Hathorr1067

3 жыл бұрын

The capacitor actually caused feedback. While the ping was active, and you moved the microphone around the radio, you could change the pitch. You could do the mod to the Mark 2 and mark 3, but I don't think you could do it to the Mark 4.

@spaceflight1019

3 жыл бұрын

And if you have the squelch up the radio won't ping when you key it. Mark 2 and 3 receivers have a reverse AGC and the meter will normally rest at top scale with power off.

I was there on Sunday and the flea market was like a ghost town. No problem walking the aisles in the vendor buildings. Some vendors packed up and left. Disappointing. The foot long hotdog was great. I will still go back next year.

I just need all of these

I picked up a Ten Tec Omni VI cheap and it is fully functional. Cheap. Btw I’m the guy with the tattoos that came up to you ate the booth. Don’t ever give up 😇

@HamRadioConcepts

4 жыл бұрын

Bro it was great seeing you. You really made me feel good with your story. I told my wife about it. Thank you for being there bro.. 73

there's one CB that i would love to get back... my old cobra 29-gtl-dx looks like the classic, but had 10m all the way up thru the eu cb frequencies (I was in the UK at the time and theirs were different to the EU)

I have 5 Brownings in my garage right now. Browning fever!

There used to be a CBer in Montgomery, Alabama with Browning Golden Eagles, an Amp, and Moonrakers beams up a tower. He owned the airwaves. His audio was great and the eagles had their scream. His CB call was Ronald McDonald.

I think just about every hamfest i've been to has some type of CB stuff there. Something for everybody. I'd still have an 11 setup if anybody was still on it here. The flea market section is my favorite and where i dump all my money and go home with none and a carload of stuff i probably don't need.

The Tube Man...Holy crap!

The meter on that Browning wasn't stuck. That meter swung backwards. Look at it again. I have two of them, the 23 channel version and the later 40 channel one.. Both have the backwards swing meters. I'm an Extra class, and still enjoy my collection of old CB radios. The Brownings, Trams Titan 1 thru 4 and the D201 and 201A, the Lafeyette Telsat, the Siltronix/Swans, the SBE Trinidad and several more. Now that I'm retired I've collected all the high price CB base units I couldn't afford when I was 20. An old man and his toys! 73, KO4AXN

WOW, its been years, the Browning ping. When I had my Comms store/repair I was the Browning and Tram authorized service center. The sound of the tubes was the big thing back when. I need to hit a fest, its been 30-35 years. I think it was around 82-83 was my last fest and field day. WOW. The Yaesu 101, 902, were the hot numbers. Memories for sure

THAT POOR GUY IN THE BACKGROUND, SPORTING YOUR SHIRT AND YOUR NOT TALKIN TO HIM...

@philipwade5559

4 жыл бұрын

🤣

My dad had a browning eagle he took that D104 moving the mic around made that feedback on that radio scream

DIG THIS >>> I have a Browning "Mobile" SSB- CB its a Golden Eagle mobile, ( not a tube ) just a solid state Japanese contracted Browning ....... I've had almost every "Boat Anchor" " Glow Box" in this video and still LOVE them..... That Palomar brand mobile CB in the pancake stack of defunct CB mobiles outside is a rare bird .....cheers and "pings" too You

@HamRadioConcepts

4 жыл бұрын

I also have a Browning LTD 23ch SSB solid state mobile with the brown wood wanna-be covers.. I am converting it to a 10 meter beacon (one day) as I started that project over a year ago

the recieve meter is NOT stuck.plug it in,turn it on,warm it up,and it should function normally.My mk 2 always rested there whon the radio was off.

Never had a 690R, but I had the 6mtr Yaesu converter. Sold it and bought a Swan 650

Hi I just got my very first cb radio today, a pretty nice rca co-pilot 14t303 base station, now I’ve got a question that I’m sure you know the answer to, now I don’t have the antenna for it yet but is it normal to not even here static with the squelch open or is it because there is no antenna it’s not even able to pick up static? I’d love to know

The Browning's meter is not stuck! They are made that way. When powered up, it "falls" back to 0. I previously owned one and the Astatic Golden Eagle D104.

@HamRadioConcepts

4 жыл бұрын

M Stover thank you, I learned this from another commenter. I love when you guys teach me this stuff thank you 73

I've got the Browning 2 and 4. Still work great..wondering what the worth?and it's a ping.. they were built that way.trademark.the metered not stuck,comes down as radio warms up.any places like this in Massachusettes? Thank you.

Очень классные аппараты, я бы обязательно себе что-то подобрал!)

Swan SSB 15, 100, or 200, depending on what amp it has or not. Had one when I was novice.

Only things I remember about the Browning golden eagles is the transmit key up racket (thought it was mildly annoying, not so much that I recall complaining to anyone) and they were on the expensive side.

@spaceflight1019

2 жыл бұрын

People did that deliberately. I own a stock Mark 3 with an unamplified D104 and unless the squelch is off and the mike next to the speaker it doesn't ping. People *wanted* everyone to know that they were on a Browning.

Meter is not stuck it means receive cap is loaded receiver works for sure when u turn it on the meter will go to zero buy it

Anybody remember the great POLY COM Radios? We had the top of the line the poly com PRO. Prior to that one of my brothers had an AIR CASTLE CB. Remember that one?

Back in the late 70's and 80's CB amplifiers and import radios were a "back room" transaction. You had to know someone who knew someone and they were never on display. Of course that was when the FCC was still doing their job on 11 meters.

Admittedly, I lean towards being a radio voyeur. I'd usually rather listen than talk. So I've got the radios.. and 2 scanners going most of the time. But every now and then I get the itch to add a CB to the stack. Most of the time, I can listen to those channels on the 7300 and that usually talks me out of it. But.. sometimes I hear people talking across the country on the CB bands. That's every bit as cool as HAM radio (when it's done like an adult). Every now and then, it's still tempting to CB.

hi,interesting video,food for thought,can you help me,i live in a large city and suffer from interference ,what coax cable would you recommend to help with noise,my Gainmaster 5/8 wave gets between s9 and 10 plus,just interference,with the yagi much better between s3 and s4,i use a Icom ic 7300,and can spend up to 10 doller/euro per meter,11 meters is long enough,thanks,73 Rotterdam.

Dude love the videos,I live I a apartment and I can’t put a antenna on the roof,I’m gets Bearcat 980 on Wednesday,I have a k30 antenna,my question is can I put that k30 on a air conditioner and use the top metal of the air conditioner as the ground plain because it’s metal??Thanks John.😎😎😎😎😎😎

Our HamFests are mostly junk sales. Just one or two people selling a few antennas and less, radios. I did test and pass my Extra exam two years ago. I'm gonna have to come to Florida, next year. KD4MAN

I would be broke. How do I find local swap meets like this? SC/GA/TN area

Your videos are very informative and well done. I would like to suggest a topic. I would like to see a real world demo of the AnyTone 878 talking to the 578 in crossband mode and then the 578 hitting a repeater. I am interested in how hot the radio gets and impact on your car battery. Could you do this with the car off rather than running so I could hike as far from the car as the 878 allows but further than trying to hit the repeater with the 878. The YpuTube videos I have seen are very basic without actually doing cross and. Thanks and keep up the good work.

@HamRadioConcepts

4 жыл бұрын

I have more on the way with this radio sorry been busy i will be touching on this subject

Hello just thought about an idea and wanted your opinion on it. I watched your video on GMRS yesterday and today I was watching your video on the sharkrf open spot 3 and was wondering if it could be used in the GMRS application. I don’t know if they have any GMRS repeaters that have internet capabilities but I thought it’s also a licensed radio service. Do you think it would work?

the meter is not stuck, the transmitter needle goes to full scale when turned off

Love the Mark III's, but I'm more into the Tram D201A's and the Demco's. Also, a bit sad that you completely skipped over the FT-101's.

I really liked the military solar panel , was that expensive? Great thing to have on field day or camping trips and since it is military grade it will hold up under adverse conditions.

@HamRadioConcepts

4 жыл бұрын

It was $100 and I found it online, they sell for $1000 i should have bought them all..

I'm waiting on Ham fest for Tn area. Love the D104, A.K.A. Chicken Choker

That meter is not stuck on the browning when you turn it on it swings back I have the mark Iva