 bear 1000 here welcome back to another episode of late night in the shop tonight playing with some CB's hopefully stick around let's check it out okay guys welcome back like I said tonight we're gonna be playing with some CB's I hope but before we get into that I will show you as always what time it is yeah 1245 a.m. okay now with that out of the way I'll show you what I got here this got this old CB and why I put my glasses on got this old handheld CB here now I've had these before it's like an emergency CB like you can just take in you can take it and dirt in your glove box if you're traveling and you could um you know if you break down it's a good thing to have on the back here has a sticker that says we bring good things to life well that's general electric some performance CB radio system compact size for convenient storage I'm just trying to make it out what I think that piece is missing sounds pretty good complete system ready for easy setup includes 40 channel transceiver magnet mount antenna cigarette lighter power adapter that is this now this was her dad's we just found it the other day yes yes today as a matter of fact in a box we don't I don't know if he was selling it or if this is what he bought it for but it says CB works ten dollars so that's kind of cool but that's you know it's a piece of duct tape but it's been on there forever okay now I'm gonna take these wires off of here well I'm gonna unravel them first okay I know you can't see that but that's the antenna which I will show it to you here in a second like I said I've had a couple of these I've met a lot of people that had them like you got local and distant local and distant here's your channels they've got it on 20 let's see there's 19 we're not gonna be using 19 okay channel 9 is your emergency channel the highway patrol is supposed to monitor channel 9 now a couple times when I had CB's I tried to call in an emergency couldn't get a whole nobody so but don't get on channel 9 messing around just in case so here it's got one of these deals I was going to do that in here but for some reason I have misplaced my three socket to plug these in so we're gonna have to go up the truck but I'll show you here is the antenna which is a magnet mount antenna okay and telescopes telescopes out kind of long probably close to three feet maybe two and a half feet I'll tell you what let's just measure it okay my measuring device here two feet exactly no it ain't it's two and a half feet exactly see two and a half feet exactly okay so I guess it's not really a review but like I say we're gonna these are supposed to come out of here put this down so we don't break it supposed to pull out but anyway let's go ahead and put that back in there supposed to turn this quarter turn it's supposed to pull out but anyway it's fine now that plugs in here to the bottom of this now I am not close enough till highway or anything to get any kind of exception I would just have to look through the channels and see if someone happened to be talking or you know monitor channel 19 until you know I heard somebody on there I don't even know if this thing works but if it does I've got one here that I know works that was sent to me by Edward I did a video on this and unboxing I do know this one works we're gonna take these out to the track and we're gonna plug them in which I could just do it in here but like I said I can't find my damn socket thing or you know my power source so we're gonna go out of the track and we're gonna plug them in we're gonna see if they work I mean it should because they're only gonna be about five feet apart but let's see if it works and if it does we'll see how well it does you know like this it was just you know you just push this to talk and this of course is a regular CB with your mic here so this is I do believe a Cobra yeah it is a Cobra and this is of course a general electric two-way emergency two-way radio so you haven't seen one of these in a long time so I'm kind of anxious to see if it works if it does that this that'll be that'd be kind of cool to have a truck because I just throw it up in the glove box still not sure where I'm gonna put this at the truck but so set out the truck plug them in and see what happens okay guys here we are at the truck you can hear the bongan what I'm gonna do is I have to turn the key on and then I'll close this door got the CB's I've got them plugged in I've got the antennas hooked up it helped so for the right hand okay now first let's get you up here a little closer I want to turn the Cobra on I know it works so it's okay there it is that's on channel one okay cool now let's put this down here on channel one all right that's on channel one now let's turn it on hey all right this is kind of like a squelch like this here so turn this up turn the squelch down a little bit all right now I'm gonna key this one up and see if it will talk to this one through these two antennas check see I'm very close so check check check break break channel one break channel one how about a 1036 okay now I'm gonna key this one up and we'll see if we can hear it through here loud and clear so this thing works great we may have to do a video cleaning this thing up like I said distance that's kind of like a squelch let's see let's turn it up to 19 turn this one up to 19 a little antenna puts up pretty good Birken one nine anyone got a radio check like I said I'm so far away from a highway unless somebody happens to be going past here but you know it is like one o'clock now so Birken one nine how about a radio check this works excellent they both do but this whole thing I mean God I can't even remember when these came out I'm looking for a date on it right now there is a model number and it actually has a 1 800 phone number right into the plastic but I'll tell you what let's go in the garage looks like they've gotten hot there let's go into the garage I'll look this model number up and we'll see if we can come up with what kind of what year it is and give us some kind of idea because I can't remember when these came out but I do remember I had one pretty much identical to this and I do believe it was a general electric as well so pretty cool hey let's head in the garage have a cold beer and a cigarette we'll talk about it for a minute okay guys so there you have it it works it's not a review review because this is not a review video but we will be doing a full review on this thing we'll get it we'll put it in the track we'll take it out on the road we'll talk to some trackers and we'll kind of see what kind of range it's got I remember talking to my friends on one of these one time because I wanted to try it out I got it at a yard sale I think I get five bucks for they normally came in a case a plastic case and you had your you know your paperwork and all that stuff with it it's called help I remember that now because I looked it up but I did remember the case and I was right this one here is supposed to come apart right down here but I don't want to pull on I don't mess with it so hopefully it can stay like that without me busting the antenna all I did find a couple online and we'll show you right now okay here's one on eBay it's very similar to the one we have here it's $16.09 and it's 1099 shipping so there's that one there was one more this one was it's similar but it it's just like the last one we looked at similar but it's not the same the same thing this one I would say is a little notice see it's got the alligator clips or the for your power source cigarette lighter this one is 1495 or best offer with 1725 shipping so it's costing more to ship these things than you know what you're paying for them so they're not you know they're not worth much but I wanted to look them up check them out this one I found on Pinterest now I don't know if it's for sale or not yeah it I guess it's on eBay now this is the one we have right here and I'll kind of show you that okay there's the base for the antenna there's your antenna there say the antenna see it will like you turn it like a quarter turn and it comes out this is the same exact one we've got here of course it's in better shape because it looks like it's been kept in the box this one apparently wasn't but as you can see see if I can do this same exact one I don't know what they want for it's on Pinterest and I got to go to their eBay store if I want to buy it because it doesn't give the price here but so you get an idea there about what they're going for also let's get out of this because I'll forget and I'll have all these apps running in a background and shit man it's 76 degrees out with a real field of 84 and it's 121 in the morning okay so enough of that now like I said we will be doing a full review of this thing cuz it's cool because now remember sound real good out there but the antennas were what three feet apart maybe four and the radios were really close together that's why we was getting feedback like when I asked for a radio check and I answered myself you got that feedback that was there they were too close so what what we can do is like I said we'll take it out in the truck and get on the highway and we'll talk some truckers and we'll do a full review on it I think a good review I've got to go to Gainesville the 26th to the doctor I may do it then if we get bored you never know we may do it before but that's that's pretty cool that it still works I can't remember what year these are but they are coming up as vintage but I did see one on eBay that said it was new and it did it looked new in the box and everything I'm not a blemish on it had like 12 pictures I look through them all but it did say it was new so I figure they must still be making them I think it was it was 30 bucks I don't know what the shipping was it may have been free but yeah it was 30 bucks new also once I get some of these projects caught up like the garage cleaned out and some other things I've got going on we may do a late night in the shop with the home base I got to get the antenna I do have an antenna you pretty much use any antenna you want on them it just not gonna get out real far but her dad had a base station and it was bad ass I mean he talked to people over overseas I mean this thing is awesome we do have that so that would be cool to set up here kind of you know check it out make sure it's still working good but they used to be in a CB club and stuff like that back when CB's were hot like it's I can't remember I used to talk my friends and you know I got a couple mile range on this on one of these before I was in Ohio there was Hills and stuff but remember this was supposed to be for emergency so if you're going down a road you break down if you're on a highway you know you wait 15 minutes to half an hour there's going to be a semi-compassion you know hopefully highway patrol if you're broke down or stuck in a ditch or you know you're in a blizzard or whatever a case may be hopefully you guys don't have to experience that but just in a case of an emergency you know truckers won't come past now the question is you know 99% of the truckers they have CB's but not a lot of them use them anymore because you know well they've got their cell phones and they've got you know they're listening to their music they got their buds in and and so you know will they hear you do they have their C beyond because I know I got a friend of mine he never he's been truck driver for 20 years now maybe 25 years but and he told me he he never uses radio very seldom would he get on his radio and he said 80% of the time he don't even have it on but but you never know like I said usually you're going to have your cell phone what if your cell phones dead I mean but just for novelty it's cool as hell you know you never know you know we're gonna be we're gonna be taking some long trips and and you bet your ass you know we're working on for next year like we had mentioned you bet your ass I'm gonna have both these CB's hooked up in the truck or whatever we're taking hopefully we'll have a newer truck by then but any any case I'm gonna have these two CB's with me and because you never know and if anything you know when we talk to somebody maybe even a local as you're going through which I used to do a lot but like I said you know like my senior year back 87 we you know we all had CB's in our trucks in our cars whatever who always had a magnet mount in fact I had a CB in my in my suburban 89 suburban I had the dual antennas they weren't magnet mount but I had them mounted up on my luggage rack and I used to quite a bit there were still people I could talk to around now that that my CB in my truck was a 40 channel Cobra it was an older one now it was like the truckers use I you know I talked to people 10-12 miles away with no problems on that but the dual antennas helped and they were magnified you know the they had the boosters on them but you know just from one of these it's I just excuse me I just think it's cool as hell you know to have one of these and plugged it in we turned it on and it worked fine so that's pretty cool so anyway guys be sure to check out my other videos appreciate you watching thanks for staying up with me until time is it now it should be about 130 127 just turned to 127 alright see so that'll do it we'll wrap it up for this episode of late night in the shop season one episode three stay tuned for more like someone try to do it every Friday night if I can't do it on Friday night I'll try to do it on a Saturday I know it's not gonna be possible for me to do it every weekend but I'll try my damnedest and if I can't do it you know on that weekend if I know I'm not gonna be able to do it on a Friday I'll try to do it you know through the week or something but I'll try to get these up for you but I'll try to keep it about every Friday so if you guys like these kind of videos it'll be there'll just be quick ones like this just you know tinkering around little projects trying stuff out like I said stay tuned for a full review on this thing and we'll go from there but anyway thanks again for staying up late with Shea Bear and hope you all are enjoying your weekend and you'll be safe out there okay and we'll see you guys soon thanks again for watching Shea Bear the myth man legend I'm gone for now bye bye guys have a good one