[Boatanchors] OT: What are these 60's SS CB HT's I found?

Will White [email protected]
Sat, 28 Sep 2002 23:52:59 -0700


I just picked up a pair of working and cosmetically very, very fine
Sears single-channel 100mW CB walkie talkies for $3.00 at a thrift
store. Apart from the nomenclature on the back of the case, which
indicates a mgr. date of 1965, it is a 9-Transistor modeland "Chassis
#787.10001" There is not much to go on in IDing this pair. They do
appear to work, on Channel 11, though with slightly distorted and weak
audio. Solid metal, black wrinkle finish back and chrome and enamel
front and a cute little analog battery indicator (they use, suprise, 9V
batteries!), took me 15 minutes to find even one small scratch in the
finish of *ONE* of them! They are SOLID! A good whole pound-plus! We
sure made things well and to last once, even the kid's stuff!

I'd like to find a Rider's or Sam's sheet on these, or some other
information that will let me align the pair and make and R&R of parts as
neccesary and still possible avail. wise. Nice addition to my general
collection of all things old(er) and electric/electronic, and maybe
handy in two folks getting antennas installed without a lot of shouting
and running up and down ladders (I don't own a 2M HT, and am not really
interested in them; a nice pair of BC-611s might be my next boon,
when/if I can find them). Anyone have this dope, or know who can supply
it, or where I can find it on the web?

--
Will White, KD7BFX
Seattle WA US
King County, Grid CN87tq
ITU Zone 6, CQ Zone 3
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The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat.
You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles.
The wireless is the same, only without the cat."
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