This is the first base station in the line of Galaxy CB radios. In these days of converted 10-meter radios, companies like Cobra, Midland and Uniden seem to be trimming their CB radio lines. Cobra with the elimination of their base station radios. Midland back in the hay days was one of the first manufacturers […]
Continue readingn 1961 Frank J. Kukura Jr. and his father formed Kem-tron Industries specializing in manufacturing power supplies, frequency counters, Interceptor 100, Thunderbolt 305, RoadRunner 150 and many other products including antenna electronics like coaxial switch boxes, Ham and CB Base antennas, and fiberglass mobile whips. The coaxial switch box was named the Anttron AS-3. In the […]
Continue readingCB World Informer© was first published in July of 1996. The first issue for August of 1996 included a review of the ChipSwitch. This 6 page review covered the complete operation including the user manual. An explanation of the functions of the radio after installation. Also a list of equipment needed to perform the installation with a […]
Continue readingThis is the other unit that my customer brought in for test. The heatsink and front panel layout looks very familiar. It is a copy of the old Palomar Magnum linear amplifier. The Palomar folks no longer use the Palomar name or produce linear amplifiers since they were busted many years ago. They managed to […]
Continue readingThe RCI 2950DX is capable of covering 24.0000 MHz to 32.0000 MHz with the addition of a small circuit board provided by an undisclosed third party. It must be mentioned that radios from some Ham Radio only dealers cannot be converted. The prices are lower on these radios, be careful, you may be buying something […]
Continue readingThe first thing I noticed after removing the top and bottom covers was the mobile chassis mounted in the base chassis. At first I was disappointed thinking this was a cheaply made base radio. What they have done was use the aluminum chassis of their mobile CB radio and designed a base chassis that accepts […]
Continue readingThe Midland 79-290 is the smallest sideband mobile available today. It measures only 2″ high by 6.25″ wide by 7″ deep. The small size combined with the detachable face makes it possible to safely mount it permanently in many vehicles.This is a new generation of CB radio designed and manufactured in Korea. Instead of producing […]
Continue readingBack in the August issue I did an article on the new Magnum Maverick A34 10-meter radio. As mention in that article the radio submitted for review was a pre-production unit. Finally Magnum received 20 production radios and I was able to convince them to send one in. This time it arrived complete in a very […]
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Continue readingThe September issue has been found in a hard copy backup file folder. Thank you for everyone’s effort in helping find a copy of this issue. All the archives have been scanned and converted back to text using OCR software. Many typos have been corrected, but please excuse the ones that may have slipped through.
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