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AC2EU

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RE: "27 megacycle" RCA boatanchor on Santa Cruz CL
« Reply #15 on: May 30, 2017, 06:59:28 AM »

That is the ugliest piece of @#&% i've ever seen!

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RE: "27 megacycle" RCA boatanchor on Santa Cruz CL
« Reply #16 on: May 30, 2017, 02:26:25 PM »

I concur...Ugly as sin and real crap on the audio side.  Someone gave me one of these more than fifty years ago when I was an avid CBer. I made sure the tubes were good, connected to a good antenna...sure it worked but it was horrible. I'm sure that if I had better technical skills I could improve both receive and transmit but it was born a dog and died a dog...Good riddance.  ;D
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RE: "27 megacycle" RCA boatanchor on Santa Cruz CL
« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2017, 09:58:21 AM »

Super-Regen receiver, and an RF amp which is also the oscillator!

This unit would be more of an AM/PM transmitter than pure AM.

Some of the tube sockets and parts may be salvageable, but otherwise a piece of ugly junk.


Phil - AC0OB
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RE: "27 megacycle" RCA boatanchor on Santa Cruz CL
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2017, 05:16:25 PM »

Super-Regen receiver, and an RF amp which is also the oscillator!

This unit would be more of an AM/PM transmitter than pure AM.

Some of the tube sockets and parts may be salvageable, but otherwise a piece of ugly junk.


Phil - AC0OB

I think we are looking at different radios.   Pete
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RE: "27 megacycle" RCA boatanchor on Santa Cruz CL
« Reply #19 on: June 01, 2017, 11:20:00 AM »

I think we are looking at different radios.   Pete

I recall a nearly identically ugly RCA box was also used for a RCA VHF (UHF?) portable that was super-regen. That may have been a Class B CB? There was some overlap between Class B CB and the business-band lunch pails too.

Of these ugly RCA boxes... some had a bluish-grey paint job, others had a light-green paint job. I think the light-greens were sold as "Deluxe". Some had two knobs in the middle perforarted section, some had one each on the right and left, and some had one in the middle and one each on the right and left.
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RE: "27 megacycle" RCA boatanchor on Santa Cruz CL
« Reply #20 on: June 01, 2017, 04:53:35 PM »

There was the old class D CB band at around 465 MHz that had some crude radios  that used the same tube as a modulated free running osc for TX and super-regen RX. The Vocaline  JRC-400 was a real kludge.
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AA4PB

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RE: "27 megacycle" RCA boatanchor on Santa Cruz CL
« Reply #21 on: June 02, 2017, 05:37:31 AM »

There was the old class D CB band at around 465 MHz that had some crude radios  that used the same tube as a modulated free running osc for TX and super-regen RX. The Vocaline  JRC-400 was a real kludge.

That was class B citizens band which was authorized on 460 - 470 MHz in 1948.
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RE: "27 megacycle" RCA boatanchor on Santa Cruz CL
« Reply #22 on: June 02, 2017, 05:50:35 AM »

For the true die-hard tube-era CB collector, you need to collect all 3 variants :-). I can't believe my brother actually owns at least one of each. The one on the right is the "Deluxe" version, you get lime green paint job and gold knob stickers.

According to a reference I found, these were circa $120 in 1959. That would be over $1000 in today's money. And for such complete crap.



Even more obscure RCA CB like a kds CB walkie talkie in a suitcase with AM radio too: The RCA "Space Base". Something from the 70's I guess. I am not making this crap up. Why do I even have a single brain cell in my head devoted to this stuff? OMG!

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AC2EU

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RE: "27 megacycle" RCA boatanchor on Santa Cruz CL
« Reply #23 on: June 03, 2017, 10:35:27 AM »

I built better looking stuff when I was 10 years old!
What were they thinking?
Maybe they weren't thinking, because the performance reviews weren't much better than the cosmetics!


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