The Mythical President Harrison. The radio that nearly ended a company

[ToledakTomas]

good radio

[thebaldcount]

Hi, I just got the em-27, It was an 80ch & I opened it up to the export mods, I really couldnt find my way around it & the CB channel 19 moved off to ch33 in band C, I set it back to the UK 40 CEPT 40 mode. I know that the tuning would need to be redone after the export mod but how does the ABCDE banding work & does the ch19 move to ch33 or would I still be able to function on ch19?

[simonthewizard]

@thebaldcount When you make the radio export sure you loose 19 unless you make the stealth mod that allows you both legal and not.

Band C: 27415-27855

So, that makes channel 33 27.785 which is close to the frequency of Channel 19ukfm. Tuning will NOT help in this matter, its a simple thing that as an export modded radio it looses what it once was, unless as mentioned before you make the mod that allows legal and illegal.

[max2950]

I have one of those in my collection, unfortunately it is not brand new. Quality is far beyond Uniden products

[CodfishCatfish]

Very interesting, I think Radio Shack TRC-1080 was the missing brand (I have 7 mixture of Maycoms and TRC's, mostly dead due to leaky Varta battery's). I'm very intrigued to know the 600 channel mode normally gave only AM receive) Can you tell me more of the mod as I tried the 600 channel mod with the 400 and I get no VCO before 26.000Mhz. Thanks cool vid. My mod's also included a 5khz step (as most channels fall in between 27.555 an example). See videos by 70slovekid. Outa Spacew byeeee

[funkyalexjones]

I meant a 9 foot whip LOL, a quarter wave. 9m on a pushbike, hah! 9 foot was crazy enough...

[funkyalexjones]

Cool history. I used to have one of the first President JFKs back in the 90s here in the UK, can't remember what freqs it did anymore, I think most of them were less than legal here at the time. I mostly just used the cheapy old midland/uniden type rigs on the normal UK 40 channels, I was a teenager at the time, so spending more than £10 on a rig was out of my reach! The years when I was on were good skip times, even on the UK40 on 4W handhelds people were DX'ing!

[funkyalexjones]

I'm thinking about getting back into radio. Apparently now here in the UK morse code is not a requirement for the basic HAM licenses, that put me off getting HAM at the time, my electronics and radio knowledge was fine though, I was always building radios out of old parts I could scrounge. Something that puts me off HAM though is the people all seemed so stiff. The CB was much more fun, even though you had to put up with dead keyers and abusive muppets at times, part of that was the fun.

[funkyalexjones]

They were very fun days, one of my friends had a 9m whip on his pushbike, and a motorbike battery to power the rig. We used to go out and track down the keyers, just give them a little scare. As we got a little older, doing those kind of hunts on each other in cars was great fun too. Sometimes we would go to a scout campsite up on a hill near us, and put up an antenna on lots of 4foot slot together scaffold with ropes, even on the 4w rig that setup boomed out!

[funkyalexjones]

I mostly paid for all my equipment by being a local rig doctor, just changing a few burnt out muppet diodes and power transistors, or retuning a rig that had drifted was quite profitable.

[teamfab]

Hi Simon, did President dare think that people would fall for this rubbish!!??

I have an as new Adams, in the box, just beautiful. Now its a real President.

Great vid.....

[simonthewizard]

Uniden were busy making cordless phones, Maycom made a radio that could be modded so was the obvious choice. NOT MANY shipped, nice old rare one and indeed its not Uniden!! And that is why they were stopped

[darynsax]

nice vid

[Scotscan]

hehehe at the end the radio said bye too! Looking forward to working you Simon.

de 108-TM-747 Richard

[GrowMoreWeed]

Thanks for letting us see this little treat Simon! :D

[cubwolf]

I am sure you know but keep an ey on the back up batt and check for leaks.

I assume these would have them like the maycom. Nice radio mate

[simonthewizard]

Absolutely Correct, yep there is a battery there identical to the Maycom the older ones, the only thing different is the ASC latched onto it. Nice to see you, been too long. Hope your well there?

[simonthewizard]

Yes Sir, has the battery indeed. All inside is identical to its brothers the stabo and the like, just with added ASC Board. Great to see you Mr.Cubbie

[DeltaMike66]

This machine looks very professional - not like the normal cb radios.

greetings dsl666

[m0ogy]

What a gem you have there Simon,look after it...Whats the orange item under the radio??.I've just bought another UK FM rig (check the video,i'm sure you remember the radio)....Thanks DAVE (26OK046)

[simonthewizard]

The Orange thing is a USB stick, that rested the radio on as the bracket was still wrapped from the factory Dave :)

[simonthewizard]

Hi Dave, was made at the same time as the EM27, guess was around the end of the 90's start of 200 but was released and discontinued REAL quickly and now there are none around at all. This is a French One, and below 80 in serial number. Regards Simon

[m0ogy]

What a rare radio......looks very nice Simon.......what year was they built????...DAVE (26OK046) UK