Bengal by Pearce Simpson SSB Base Station. This Old School CB still has some life in it!
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2024
- What a cool little radio. Certainly this one has some stories to tell as well. This came out in the hey day of the original CB radio craze and likely spent many nights burning up the airwaves with local chatter and occasional DX.
Pretty cool!
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I wouldn't say I'm old, But I do remember when those were New! Thanks for the videos!
Not old, just well experianced
it's nice to see something that old can still be useful, keep up the good work.
Are you talking about me or the radio? Lol
That is truly an old school radio! Sometimes I forget how big the old rigs were compared to modern radios! Some of the older rigs were beautiful!
I agree, the older ones had better style
Like that Army shirt! On this date in 1982 I was in wonderland Fort Leonard Wood taking Basic Training. Great looking and great sounding radio!
I'm a Leonard Wood alum as well. 1992!
Thanks for doing this and making great content! we get to see some awesome radios that go through your hands.....73
You are welcome, I enjoy seeing all the different types of radios
Me too and i am not lucky enough to obtain alot of the cool old radios you have so thanks for sharing. Cant wait for the next one @@FarpointFarms
Cool radio 👍 I use a Pearce Simpson lion 40 in my truck at work and I've got a Regency cr-123b which from what I can find out online is the same on the inside as your Bengal SSB. Thanks for all the videos!
Good to know- thanks for sharing it
Makes you appreciate, after all the effort it took to just get 36,37,38,and 40,what you have at your Amazonian fingerprints 😊. Thanks for the video.
Yup! These old school 23 channel radios must have been so packed with comms before the 40 channel change over.
I always remember those Pearce Simpson radios having great audio back in the day
They were built very well to still be working after all this time
Nice radio! I used to have a Simba with a Siltronix external VFO and a Turner +3.... good times😁. BTW, S/RF is Signal and RF power FYI, Thanks for sharing this great radio.
That is a nice one- I think I have seen them around at the hamfests before
Gladding Corp. is still around. They are located in New York State. They make industrial ropes for the shipping industry, etc.
Good to know, thanks for sharing that
Like the looks of that radio, now I'm on the hunt for one 👍
I am sure they are out there. Good hunting
I still have my Bengal, along with a D-104 microphone. I haven't powered it up in years though. I'm going to have to fire it up now to see if it still works.
Sounds like a great thing to do
They are pretty good radios for sure. I have a simba and a tiger 40 ch in my collection, nice radios.
I will have to see if I can find those and take a look
Awesome video, Thanks for sharing again all the free knowledge and cool gadgets. Favorite UA-cam channel and intro song. You got me into radio and I’m glad ya did. Keep doing what you’re doing. Thanks again
Thank you for the kind words, it means a lot
I believe these radios were made made in the USA. Great find .
That was from a time where we did have manufacturing here in the states.
Looks cool. Been playing around with my dad's old Midland 40 channel, I forget the model off the top of my head, but it's probably from the mid to late 70s. Also had a widowed neighbor give me a President Washington base a few weeks ago. Looks like an 80s model. It works but screeches like a banshee when you turn the volume knob. I wish I as better with electronics I'd work on it, but will probably take it to the nearest shop, 2 hours away, so it's done right. Anyhow, it's amazing what people will give you free if they know you are into something.
Thanks for the content. Really enjoyed the solar panel series and it has the gears in my head turning.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the solar series. I hope people share it to beginners.
The President Washington was one of my first base stations. I sold it a while back, and I still look at getting one again. It was a great little unit
Recently bought a pre Uniden President Grant cb for $10. It’s like new. I love old CB’s
You got a great deal on that one.
Nice vid
Thank you
i like that base i have a old simba that wors great thanks for the vid
Your welcome!
From 75-78 I used a Pearce Simpson Director and an Escort.
Ha! Remember those old school "Fuzz Busters". Times sure have changed.
@@FarpointFarms, ha, no, these were old school 23 channel CB radio's. From the 60's at least. They were old when I was using them as a base station in the mid 70's. Take care.
Nice rig!
Thanks!
I believe a Pearce Simpson CB radio was featured in the cab of Snow Man's KW in Smokey and the Bandit. I'm not too sure what CB radio was in the Bandit's Trans Am.
I think I will have to watch that again and see if I can spot it
Neat
Indeed.
It’s funny I’ve been watching your channel for years, I’ll be talking to you soon I’m moving to the mountains of South Carolina Pickens County getting out of New York to close to the city live on Long Island. I want to die in peace.
That is a pretty area, you will be in for some culture shock going from LI to the south. People work on "mountain" time, which means really slow. The quietness and open spaces are well worth the trade off. Downfall is no good hotdogs or bagel places.
@@FarpointFarms I don’t have a choice, I paid 1200 a month for my wife’s college bill. I pay $1000 a month land tax that’s $2200 before we even start life Time to go.
Ouch, well the cost of living down here is cheaper- not cheap, but better than what you are dealing with now.
Mountains do not block skip, skip is where the signal goes up and comes back down somewhere else, after it bounce😮off the ionosphere. Transequitorial is when it skips across the equator an equal distance.
And yet, it blocks signals from that direction. 100% positive. A quick ride up the road will totally change the skip that rolls in.
@@FarpointFarms sorry but you don't know what you are talking about.
You confuse ground wave with skywave.
Longer wave length like MW AM broadcast band yes the radio wave during the day travels closer to the ground.
But 11 meter CB Radio is at the edge of a shortwave band, almost Vhf, which is why it reacts different, especially towards the peak of the 11 year solar cycle like we are in right now.
Compared to the last solar cycle 2011 - 2012. This cycle is a real turd.
But to a know nothing, it probably seems great to you.
Just wait two years from now when 1000 watts won't talk across the street and tell me how radio works or doesn't work.
@@boknows3841 Sorry, but you are not here to listen for yourself. You also don't realize that Skywave (skip) can and does get blocked by all kinds of things like dense cloud cover, tree foliage and..... Wait for it..... LARGE MOUNTAINS LESS THAN 20 feet from the antenna in one direction.
I wish we had a repair shop near where I live I have several radios that now don't work including a base
The closest one to me is about 2 hours away and is hardly ever open
@FarpointFarms there is an old man I found about an hour away been doing it for over 50 years now after retirement for his second time as he told me ,he is still doing it!! Unfortunately the day before I was supposed to take mine there,some idiot ran thru his shop with a car. I don't see him opening back up
Oh man, what a bummer.
What kind of CB Antenna system you using Far???? and how high up is it ?? I use to have a Pierce Simpson Guardian 23 years ago was a very nice Rig -- i was a teen then, am 69 now. Nice Video.
Antron A99
I'm hearing mexico on ch9 on the other side of south holsten Mt. Hopefully I'll get a base antenna set up and we'll chat one day
That is some good reception there.
@@FarpointFarms it's a Wilson 5000 mag mount on top of a Silverado
What model Casio watch are you wearing here?
That's a trusty and inexpensive Casio W218AV. Love it!
There's been an unbelievable sound on the CB radio I think it's solar flares or some type of weird jamming it's a long long ways away I know it's coming from the West I have a beam I have a 1 element beam I can turn that way and the noise comes in but if you turn your antenna towards the north it goes away
I hope you get better Eric it's just been a lot of stuff going around and number two the pollen level is so high down here it's not even funny number two I want to tell you about that radio that was one of my first radios ever had but I had the one was outside band on it I love my the fine another one of those let me know if you have a good find one of those shooting star state of Virginia been keeping my eyes out if you could keep your eyes out open for one of those radios let shooting star know
Yup, that's those mega solar flares that hit this past weekend. I had zero shortwave reception here at the house.
Will do!
I love my little shortwave radio works fantastic its emergency one
Thank you very much
Are you running it on DC or AC?
AC.
Hey Eric how many D-104 lollipop mics do you have hanging around that might be for sale, working of course?
I don't have any for sale now. Sorry
Dang. Oh well I tried. Should you in the future can you keep me in mind?
I will do that, there are a few hamfests coming up that I might go to.
Won't Eric good the video I have a perception tagger with a dust?Mike on it of had for about 5 Five years . I like playing with the old twenty three channels but I use a ft991a. On my base station alright 73
Thanks for the kind words!
Skip comes from 200 miles up in the ionosphere. I don't think your little hill blocks the signal coming from South America very much.
And yet it does.
Is a sparkomatic cb 5100 base worth anything?
I am not too sure on that one-
Old school is superior to most current products, which are often over thought but under designed.
For many things you are right, they were built to last