[Milsurplus] [BoatAnchors] LOL... 3885 Mil-Net Guy

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 02:41 PM 7/1/2012, Ed Sieb wrote:
>Hah!    He's  using a rather obscure   CB walky-talky, made by "21st Century
>Toys".   It a faithful, 3/4 size reproduction of an actual 
>BC611.    Contains  all
>the correct markings,   attachments  and bits.  Even the Signal 
>Corps nomenclature
>tag is authentically reproduced.    It is an 
>actual  superheterodyne  radio  (not
>some cheap superregen "rush-box"), that operates not on CH 14,  (the 
>typical CB
>walky-talky channel)  but on 27.145, an RC channel.  It's  an 
>interesting radio
>artifact.  Unfortunately,  I only own one pair.  I didn't have the presence of
>mind to buy  more. They were  on sale by our local Canadian version of Harbor
>Freight,  "Princess Auto", for $19.95 a set.  I should have bought 
>more.  I have
>attached  a picture.

Thanks for the price info, Ed.   The Canadian Ebay sellers were 
peddling them in
the $120 area.   After getting two for my grandson, one did not work and had to
be sent back for another one.  So of the two, one of them has a faulty squelch
but still works.  (Heck my real 611's don't have squelch anway)

We occasionally see used ones appearing, but with the earlier experience, they
may not work at all.

Did you find a way to open them up?  There's no manual or schematic available
but if they could be easily opened without breaking them, they might 
be salvageable.

w8au

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