I inherited one of these. I bought a Midland Mike Multi 6 pin. About to use this if it works in my Freightliner. Thanks for the overview. I hope this one works. It's been in an attic for 30 years.
Picked up one from Craigslist several years ago in new condition still in the wrapping. This has been a great radio and used it on road trips. Still runs great and like the volume control on the mic.
I have the same Midland 77-888 and the exact Astatic M-6B mic, but I could not get the wiring right. The RF gain on the mic made the wiring harder. I'm the only girl in this area interested in radio, and I would really like that wiring diagram to improve over the stock mic. Thank you sir in advance.
The difference in the tone by switching the swr switch could be extra channels added to this radio.It was A common mod and that was an available switch to use. Check it out 73's
They aren't bad radios i have serviced quite a few of them as well as have a few NOS in the 23 and 40 channel versions still in their original boxes. The main problem with them is the 6 pin mic plug becomes intermittent causing audio issues since the mic has a volume control plus when the original mic goes bad trying to find another good one is a challenge. Alot of customers have me wire them up to accept the standard 4 pin midland mic ( i have plenty of NOS midland mics also) or to the 4 pin cobra style which is sold most everywhere.
Hi I just found one of these with a couple of mikes, an SWR meter, speaker, mag mount ariel and seperate amplifyer!! trouble is that I've not had a CB since the 80's and can't remember how to tune the ariel to the set via the SWR meter!! I think this set will be illegal in the UK anyhow!! :( Had a Krako back in the day!!
External CB puts the CB audio out of the PA speaker jack. I had a different (much more simpleton) late 70s Midland (still do actually, it's the radio that got me into this hobby at 13) that did that. I put a police car speaker on the sub frame of the car it was in and wired it to the PA function. I used to get the biggest kick of putting it in PA mode at a stoplight and farting into it. Peoples' heads would turn and they couldn't figure out where that came from.
That Tune switch on that radio is not made for tube radios that's incorrect that is a tune just to change the sound of the radio basically to change the sound a little bit more bass or more treble or just a different sound kind of like a Delta tune but that was not installed because of the tube radios or amplifiers
I inherited one of these. I bought a Midland Mike Multi 6 pin. About to use this if it works in my Freightliner. Thanks for the overview. I hope this one works. It's been in an attic for 30 years.
Picked up one from Craigslist several years ago in new condition still in the wrapping. This has been a great radio and used it on road trips. Still runs great and like the volume control on the mic.
stock mike had volume control on it, I think
I have the same Midland 77-888 and the exact Astatic M-6B mic, but I could not get the wiring right. The RF gain on the mic made the wiring harder. I'm the only girl in this area interested in radio, and I would really like that wiring diagram to improve over the stock mic. Thank you sir in advance.
The difference in the tone by switching the swr switch could be extra channels added to this radio.It was A common mod and that was an available switch to use. Check it out 73's
They aren't bad radios i have serviced quite a few of them as well as have a few NOS in the 23 and 40 channel versions still in their original boxes. The main problem with them is the 6 pin mic plug becomes intermittent causing audio issues since the mic has a volume control plus when the original mic goes bad trying to find another good one is a challenge. Alot of customers have me wire them up to accept the standard 4 pin midland mic ( i have plenty of NOS midland mics also) or to the 4 pin cobra style which is sold most everywhere.
Hello Zeke. Congrats to your big MIDLAND 888 AM Radio. I can see a typical CYBERNET S-meter. I think, a PTBM036AOX board is in the case.... 73s...
Hi
I just found one of these with a couple of mikes, an SWR meter, speaker, mag mount ariel and seperate amplifyer!!
trouble is that I've not had a CB since the 80's and can't remember how to tune the ariel to the set via the SWR meter!!
I think this set will be illegal in the UK anyhow!! :(
Had a Krako back in the day!!
External CB puts the CB audio out of the PA speaker jack. I had a different (much more simpleton) late 70s Midland (still do actually, it's the radio that got me into this hobby at 13) that did that. I put a police car speaker on the sub frame of the car it was in and wired it to the PA function. I used to get the biggest kick of putting it in PA mode at a stoplight and farting into it. Peoples' heads would turn and they couldn't figure out where that came from.
That Tune switch on that radio is not made for tube radios that's incorrect that is a tune just to change the sound of the radio basically to change the sound a little bit more bass or more treble or just a different sound kind of like a Delta tune but that was not installed because of the tube radios or amplifiers
73s from the byu
02A PLL!!! HIGHLY modifiable!!!!!