 Hey everyone shaber 1000 here today I'm gonna be checking out this CB radio 40 channel and held CB. It's GE I think they sold these at Radio Shack And by these I mean two of them Okay, we're gonna open these up. I think one of them's got issues That may be in another video where we check it out, but we're gonna see if it works and They're gonna take it out of the car and we're going to test it out so let's open these boxes up and Let's see what we got here. Yeah guys, so here they are Now I did open them up see what was in here and kind of check them out now. Let me see This is the one I think we may be doing another video on This is what they are I think they're in 1997 from everything I came up with the They have the date code right there But from what I can tell the 97 I think So this one I'm down here It looks like someone had trouble the first thing I noticed was Okay, hang on a second guys Right in there. It looked like someone had to pry this open for some reason But I opened it right up But if you look down in there where the batteries go see that Looks like it's growing here Also hang on Okay, so I did notice that also here's the date code down here with the serial number 2908 2908 so that matches with that box of its original box This one It's got two power sources. They're just 12 volt this one Looks like it's got one of the little tabs that broke off the door Okay, but The battery compartment looks fine Also This one the on-off knob it clicks this one Does not the volume knob turns But it doesn't make the click noise to off so I Think what we'll do is this is Where you plug your power source in and then you have another Antenna here, which I will show you It's also got This one they called them the rubber duck antennas that antenna there Or you can plug let me get it and I'll show you we also have this I did a video on this one before Now the antenna that came with This one this is just an emergency one. I've had a few of these in the past. I had one that was Still in the box and wrapper and everything It was just an emergency CB because okay guys If you were born before cell phones, this is what we had we had CBs. Well, so we have her dad Had a home had a base station and we still have it in the It's out in the shed. I need to get it out and check it out That's the one this is the antenna that came with that one. It's a magnet mount and you could also plug this antenna in Which gave you a lot more range telescopes out quite a bit of ways up So This would come out. I don't want to mess with it right now because I know it works So but this is also a GE general electric And you could get out quite a quite a bit of range With one of these you could also get an adapter that would screw in here And you could put a regular or regular antenna on it CB antenna But first this these things take eight double-a batteries 12 volts comes out to 12 volts so but so this one I Want to take out and I want to plug it in first into the car and we're going to see if Works and if it works then we'll Plug it into the back of the car the other one into the back of the car and we'll try them out I do have some batteries charging right now to try the other one out So what we're going to do like I said, we're going to take this outside Since I get this untangled and we'll go We'll see if this one works at all. I don't know why This is off There we go. I just wouldn't There we go. It's working. That's working. Okay. It just seemed real hard at first. It must have just been a little dirty All right, it's working now All right, so But yeah one of them as soon as I saw those prime works, I thought that's not good Because that's usually a sign someone had trouble getting the batteries out because when his batteries do that they swell up and Everything sticks together But yep, a lot of you guys will remember these things but Depending on the age of my crowd that's watching right now will not Probably won't even know what it is But before yeah before we had cell phones. We had CB's Which stands for citizen band radio We would also get the Someone would have PA You can flip your switch to PA and you would have like a loudspeaker out under your hood And you could holler at your friends and stuff and that's that's what the cops use It's called public announcement That's what the cops use when they holler at people get out of your car and all that stuff. So yeah, let's go outside and Let's plug this in and check it out Not gonna mess with this one right now But we will take I don't know why this one came with two two cords So I don't know which one is the original one This one's still tied up So I think I'll try this cord And if it don't work, we'll try the other one Because if you get these things too close together, you'll have a lot of feedback But I plug one one because we got the power plug in the back So if I plug one in up front and one in back, I should be far enough away from each other to This one still has the book with it, too The copy right on this was Let me see. Let me tell you so Copy right on this books 96, but what I was coming up with on the On the date code and they're dated the same 2908 was 97 so that's about right But they're both 2908 date code so they was made the same time But it doesn't really give you an exact way to tell But yeah, all right, so let's get this plugged in here Now I'll meet you out the Chevy. Okay, so We're going to start and with by checking the one that the batteries were messed up in Plug this in here. Let's turn it on and I don't see anything That should be coming on But it's not oh There there we go It's on channel 9. I'm not gonna mess with channel 9. That is an emergency number If you guys ever see get a CB radio go to another channel Let's turn it well, there's a squelch. Okay, we'll turn the power on high All right, let's go to channel 19 Okay, so I got the volume up Let's go and back and we'll plug the other one in in the back and we'll see if this one can hear us Okay, so this up Here is our power port. It's a shut off We've got this on high. Okay, let's turn this one on There we go Let's go to If you turn that's weird if you turn the squelch down It's turning the power down on this. That shouldn't do that. I'm gonna go out and put the other one on Channel 10 We'll see and I'll talk into it and see if you can hear me through this Okay, it seemed like all it was doing was clicking Check check check check. I can't hear it up there Check check check. All right, let me talk in the other one Let me talk into the other one see if this one will pick us up. It doesn't seem to be Doing anything I can go get the other one. We'll check the other one. Hey, let me go get the other one I'll get it plugged in up front and Then we'll try these two back here. Okay. Now I'm gonna go up front and talk in To the other one And let's see if this one can hear us. Hey, so that one can hear us Yeah, see the other one you can hear the feedback on on it Check check. All right, I'll bring you up front here There's that one Okay, so that one's working now I'm gonna plug the other one in and We'll see if it works on this one. Okay. Now we're gonna check the one that the batteries didn't explode in and We'll see if this thing can hear us at all. It's on channel 10 just like the other one Okay, that one did not hear us. So let's go back here in the back and let's see if this one Can hear that one And if we don't then we know there's something wrong with this if you key these up without without an antenna hooked up You can burn your radio up. You burn the finals out of it is what you do And then they don't want to work no more All right, so let me go up front And see if see if you can hear me on this one. Well, it's not supposed to do that All right, let me go talk into the other one see if this one can pick us up So I'm thinking there's a problem with this one. So let's plug the other one in. I don't know No, wait, that is the bad one. That is the bad one. All right. Well, I call it bad because of the batteries batteries Can leak its way up into components Okay, we're on channel 10. I don't know why when you turn the squelch down that light goes down with it It shouldn't do that but Let's try it. Yeah, see if the one up front can hear us Yeah Check one two check Because I got the antenna I'll show you I Got the antenna up on top of the core and it's not extended. So Yeah We could plug a centena into the other one. Let's do that and I don't know if it's gonna If I can pick up anybody around here because I'm so far away from the highway You know, I'm like 25 minutes drive from the nearest highway But let's try it. Let's go ahead and chip this off Get that there move this out of the way. So that one doesn't work, right? So let's go ahead and take this antenna off of here could be the antenna we could try this antenna on that one, too To see and if that works then We use this antenna on one Let's see if it picks up anything on channel 19 No, not really Put it on top of the car. I can faintly hear somebody Breaker one nine how about a radio check It's also got they called them earphones then I got the power on high Burger one nine how about a radio check Okay, so what we're gonna do now. Let's Let's go up Channel by channels if anybody's talking on these lower channels. These things not as Popular as the popular as they used to be Breaker, how about a radio check? I can hear them. So they're really putting out some Good power. Like I said, they're 40 channel and I'm back to one Stay off of nine. That's an emergency channel state troopers are supposed to Monitor that channel, but they don't because I know a couple times I've seen an accident tried to get somebody on channel nine. Nobody would answer me Of course that was before cell phones, you know, I guess take us back to 10 Let's put Could very well be the antenna on this let's put Then the one we know is good on it And we'll take this up front and plug it in and see See if that makes a difference Okay All right, let's go up front see what happens. All right, let's get this plugged in Turn this Nope didn't make a difference. Did it wonder if it's that cord Let's try a different cord Let's try Let's try this cord Out of the known working one and it doesn't fit. Okay Well Shoot So this one's definitely got issues Definitely has issues But we know we've got one good working one Yeah, I see it shouldn't do that Well, we got one good one anyway, we know it works Let me put some batteries in it and We're we'll do an experiment Oh Off of this one here. Okay. We've got batteries in here now There we go. Let's go up to channel 10. All right now Gonna put the antenna back on it And we're gonna plug the other one in Emergency one there the known working one and then I'm gonna go over that way towards the house Let me get the antenna for this one. Okay, here's the antenna You know if I had that extended out, we may have gotten somebody to answer us. I'm gonna go ahead and extend it out Put it on top of the car We're going to Plug the antenna in here Plug this into the power. All right, we're gonna turn this on It's on 10 See this don't have a squelch on it. It's got Distance and local so we're gonna go to local and I'm gonna turn this on and Let me see I Should get another camera out, but you're gonna have to trust me. I'm gonna go over. I'm gonna go over the Toyota and And Let's check it first Check. Yeah, see I'm way too close. Okay. I'm gonna go over to the Toyota Okay, that didn't sound very good. I don't think but anyway, this is where I was at Check check radio check seemed like it was breaking up. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put you here on the truck and Oh battery low, that's why okay. Let me go talk on the other one. See if this one can't hear me We got one good working radio. There's no battery in here. I would plug this into that but Check check check But yeah, that's um That's pretty cool though Check see I don't know if you can hear it but We're close enough now check check check. So there we go guys We've got one working radio and one to work on. I don't know if I can fix it. I've never Took a radio apart to fix something like it check check. Okay, so Yeah, see that's his battery low I'm sure it would pick up if the batteries weren't low But I just took these batteries out of my Out of my trail camp. Let me go charge these for a little bit and then we'll try it one more time Burger burger their channel 32 is anyone got a radio check for me 10 for you do the same Right on I don't know where he's at, but he heard me. I don't know if you guys heard it, but said I was sounding good and That's channel 32. So Let's go Go down to 19 see what's going on on 19. It's picking up stuff. So it gets out That's what the big antenna That's what the antenna on top of the truck. So from this one and I couldn't get out with this one on channel 32. I could hear him, but this one I got out. He said I was sounding good awesome Let me get check my batteries And we'll do this one more time over at the truck Okay, guys, so these batteries aren't real charged because it's only been about 15 minutes, but Okay, so I'm gonna go over I'm gonna go over at the truck and I'm gonna I'm gonna talk to y'all the way over there See if you can hear me on that one. Let's take this over to the truck See if this one can hear us. I'm going back over to the other one See if you guys can hear it. All right guys Check check I can hear it over there at the car. So that's pretty cool. Check check All right. Well starting to get bit up. So I'm gonna get this stuff picked up and I'll meet you back in the house And we'll finish up the video. It's not really a review As much as it is checking out vintage CB radio says pretty cool All right guys, I'll be back with you in just a second. Okay guys, so there you go one working one doesn't that's okay I Think I'll put this one in the truck and keep it in there Even though we have cell phones Doesn't hurt to have it. I mean you heard you can get a hold of somebody but The cops are supposed to like I said the highway patrol supposed to monitor channel nine, but they never do So yeah, I think that's what I'll do I did get this This antenna does come out just like that So it packs away real nice. They they used to come in a in a plastic case and then they went to like a cloth case This one didn't have a case. So but So, yeah, we've got two good working radios. So that's pretty cool. All right guys. Let's say thanks for watching. I appreciate it and We'll see y'all in the next one. Bye. Bye guys. Take care. Shea Berry met the man a legend gone for now