Has anyone heard of Stryker radios?

Come CLEAN .... we know you have a foot warmer hidden .......

Like you i run less than 100 watts the only band I have a amp for is 2 meters. As for 2 meters I run a FT1900 about 40 watts into a 5/8 wave wip and it gets me at least 30 miles no problem.

On CW I have worked 1200 miles with ONE WATT and on 6 meter SSB with 10 watts more than 30 states.

PSK-31 digital on 20 meters ( 14.070 mhz ) it's easy to work europe with even 5 watts ..... Now there is a mode the FCC should allow on the RC channels its only 1/20 th of a channel wide !

 

I'm going to guess this is one of the old school CB's where you had to buy the plug in crystals for whatever channels you were going to run? I didn't think they made them that late....in '76. LOL I figured by then all CB's were full blown 23 channeled models. Guess the 6 channel models were for the really poor CB operators. i can only wonder what one of them sounds like over the air as compared to a typical Cobra 29 stock.

 

They sounded good just at $45 per ch a bit pricy to crystal

 

$45 new eh? Yeah I can see why they'd be attractive...I saw a clip where a small 23 channel Midland the size of a small note book was $100....that was in 1975. But I really didn't think they were making the 5 and 6 channel CB's as late as 1976.

 

so i guess as long as me and my converted galaxy stay on 19 and i dont take my switch off of am i'm good and safe then it seems

 

The FCC banned then as of Jan 1978 however if you had one you could still use it again WHY do people mess with the 23's they are at least 33 years old far past the lifespan .... for $40 you can buy a 40 ch ready to go .....

 

Yes but why not just buy a good CB

 

19 has nothing to do with it. It's what frequency you're actually on.

If you have one of the Galaxy export models (Galaxy 33, Galaxy 55, Galaxy 66, Galaxy 99, etc) or if it has a "band" channel, you can still be on 19 and just accidentally flip the band switch, now you're on a different frequency other than the CB band. The other "not the CB band" frequencies are used by ham operators with licenses. If you are found using said band w/o license you can be fined by the FCC.

The only way you'll know what frequency you're on is if you have a freq counter and know what the CB freq's are. For most truck drivers this is probably too much info to ever care about unlike CB enthusiasts who have this info burned into their memory banks.

My 2 cents...if you're going to run an export and don't have a freq counter/can't remember the CB freq's and want to keep your ### out of trouble, have the CB shop hard wire the band switch so it runs on the 11 m CB band all the time and then remove the switch....and in it's place maybe install an adjustable dimmer switch for your led and meter. Much cheaper than getting slapped with a fine.

The only ones I can think of that mess with 23 channels would be two types...those who collect the older base stations, such as the Browning Mark Eagle for nostalgia purposes. The second example are farmers. Because some of their farm equipment is easily broken into and they only need a few channels, they'll find an old 23 channel....because they're less likely to be stolen.

 

That may be but a 33 year old radio is going to be hard to matain on a tractor .......

I don't mess with much older stuff HAM. CB or other wise unless like you say it is a collectable I FIX radios all day long and don't need to go home to a broken one .....

Little LULU ( 1962 ) 250 of them made i'm restoring this one .....

 

because i love my galaxay(clutches it tight) i've had it my whole short career when i got out and it's been good to me to this day still and my trainer who sold it to me when he bought another 10 meter has gone thru almost 1 a yr since so i;m hold on to this puppy til i have a reason to replace it