PC76xl Uniden thoughts? (Just general thoughts only please...)

I own a PC76Xl Uniden

It was and is a wonderful little stock cb radio with everything we ever wanted in one.

However it's sat on my table in the corner beyond the computer screen since 2001. I dust it off once in a while and have no reason to think that thing is flawed inside. I never open it.

I won it at cards in video poker at the Calhoun I-20 cb shop across the street from the truckstop and I think these were good people for radios. So I bought one for about roughly 140 a long time ago so the state of Louisana is the buyer essentially or the people who paid into the casino and the radio is free to me.

Ive been carefully thinking about selling the radio, it's simply a box with everything stock. There is no mike, antennas, power supply (Very easy modular computer type input) etc etc etc

What do you think I should do or ask for it? Is there any value? Or no value? Or is that obselete and I should use it as a base station or keepsake for memories of many years in the truck? I might use the funds towards a modern version of this radio in hopes they have gone digital instead of old style wiring inside those radios. Maybe even a bigger radio that incorperates a scanner for Law, Trains, Air traffic centers and towers plus Ship comms along with shortwave etc.

 

That low eh?

Im not surprised. I wonder what differences between that old radio and today's retail radios now a days. You mind clarifying that?

 

It will be back in service soon enough. Im looking forward to it. Just need to find a site for base station antenna. That will be interesting.

Thank you again for your thoughts.

Sometimes I wonder about trends. I have a shipment that contains a early 70's era solid state turntable, AM FM radio 8 track and casette plus any number of connections and so forth coming to me from the east coast.

I have a feeling that once I reacquaint myself with the sound coming off those solid state electronics, I might not want to go MP3 or whatever it is.

 

I know nothing about DX, I know how to turn a knob until the radio "Fits" the antenna tall or short or anywhere in between. I am however in a building where there are computers potentially driving oxygen machines at night. Ive been doing some thinking. There is also intense military air lift traffic by the hundreds day and night C130J's and sometimes the C-17 which I like but those come over at 1000 agl. When they break and talk to each other, that radio turns into a form of 0 nothing. Blank. Drowned as they say. So I wait until the airforce birdies go away before trying to take in what's going on at the freeway.

If I hear more of the same old junk like a commerical braying for a date honey, 10 dollar long time bang bang... no thank you I'll just as soon put it away and break out the bearcat to listen to memphis air controil.

 

KEWL.

I'll have to dust off meters. Erm.. I don't know if some of the licensing is still in force. I just opened a can of worms with m.. no a barrel of monkeys joyfully escaping.