Realistic trc-152

IF this is a 23 ch radio don't waist your money. 23 ch radios are at least 33 years old and if you expand them and add ch they they are just another illegal radio that is 33 years old ......

40 ch radios are so cheap it makes no sence .......

 

No it isn't worth putting any any money in. I agree with WA4GCH. Go buy a 40 channel. Also most shops won't work on a 23 channel set.

 

No matter what you hear you cannot convert a 23 into a 40.

That said .....

Hygain made a 40 ch cybernet chassies that was a 40 that was sold as a 23 ch using a 23 ch switch until the new ones open up in 1977. TO CONVERT it you had to mail it back to them and they would change the switch it was approved as both a 23 and 40 by the FCC.

Hygain is long out of the radio market bought by MFJ and making rotors and antennas now.

SO ....

Here we are 33 years later and people are still playing with them ... and you can buy a NEW 40 ch for $39. It makes as much sence as buying a UGO and putting $10,000 in repairs in it .....