SOLD to a happy collector who will restore some for his personal collection and donate some restored units to various people in rural areas. It's all gone to a good home and this lot will be utilized by many.
why should they be sold ? if the owner has enjoyment out of them then there is no reason to sell them off. judging by their age, they would all need a recap align and tune to start off with and then who knows what else.
You have a good idea, with so many wide open spaces in Australia where cell phones don’t work. I’m sure you’d find someone interested in having these radios.
What a fantastic find of legacy technology, a shame there is not a scrap market if you try to scrap then out. Maybe a Marine dealer, or collector/ repair restore guy . Good luck, I thinks its worth a shot and keeping them for a while,
The radios with SSB mode are worth more than the AM only mode radios. Ham radio operators will modify them to use in the Amateur 10 meter band that is just a little higher in frequency than the CB 11 meter band. It's easy to pick them out. They will have SSB printed on them and a switch for selection of USB LSB and AM mode's.
What a great collection of CB's. Hope you can find someone nearby who can make you a deal relatively quickly. Sometimes these kinds of finds present a paradox.
So glad you’re not scrapping this👊🏻😉. When I saw the thumbnail I was hoping you were gonna do exactly what you did ! so great minds think alike👌🏻. I wouldn’t even dream of melting this stuff down. This whole group is gonna look awesome when it’s all stacked up on some chipboard in someone’s man cave and I’d love to see a photo of it if they ever send it to you👊🏻😁.
If worse case there should be good silver content in them and old style tanti thanks for the update about two more weeks for street scrapping? Two thumbs
@@eWasteBen if i email you could you help me with circuit board recycling? Seems like no one locally does it. My scrap yard would only do as scrap steel they told someone else recently. Atm i got 6kg and increasing
I don't know what the state of ham radio is these days, but the Internet was hot on the tail of CB and ham as of the 1990s then cell phones also - for viability of communications. But you'd think that some might still amuse themselves with CB and ham. Any one of those sets in full working order and you could talk locally, and then also globally, IF anyone is out there. A 23 channel one, thus having sideband, with a really powerful elaborate antenna, for the long distance ham. An 18 channel AM one for around the neighbouring suburbs, with only small basic antenna required. Either a power supply unit plugged into a mains, or, off a car battery with the negative lead clipped onto the positive and vice versa [ otherwise you blow the unit ], in order to power it.
you need scrappers to make the workers and the guy that said scrap them to sell as parts greed kills sales lol bet you buy up all the disability scooters cheap and sell the parts then no ones can afford to buy them and rot in there flats geoff upton is right you sell them as units each with a value it just how its done on radios its the code of conduct most us guys keep
CB radios are not dead. They have a legitimate use in certain areas where nothing else can get a signal. When all the high tech stuff fails these will keep working due to their simplicity.
That's a cool old collection, awesome to see you trying to see them go to the right place rather than scrapping them cheers for that .. I would love that old Karinna ksb18 in my collection (3rd from bottom in left row) I have been hoarding these things myself since I was 15yo! .. to be honest there is only maybe a dozen actually desirable radios amongst that lot and everything looks to be in poor condition really however they are still cool and someone would love them, if you put them on eBay as one big lot local pickup only the listing would go parabolic I'd think! .. that's definitely the way to get best $$.. good luck with it
umm how many you seen since 1in die hards fire sale in the warlocks command centre lol. dedicate a lifetime mending them and relight the cb fire " your a radio 5 burning 40 candles there good buddy and ya wife says hurry up back or the dog gets ya tea boy"
Quite a haul on what looks like all mobile CB units. To clarify a bit, USB and SSB means channels between the normal 23 channels allocated for CB use. Normal 23 channel units were limited to 5 watts output while USB and SSB upped the power to 15 watts output from the same unit. USB/SSB channels were usually clearer on receive and transmit and were less crowded than the regular 23 channels, although more finicky to tune correctly. Since those are all Aussie units are they still just 12 volt systems? I assume they are. IF any of them still work, they should fetch a fair amount from preppers and others. I was heavy into CB radios through the 70s and 80s, but lost interest after that. At the worst, you could sell them at a ham radio fest or something like it for ten bucks each and fetch a nice 800 bucks or more. Can't blame you for not wanting to mess about with them too much though...and shipping to anywhere outside Aus. would not be cheap at all. Nice finds though...impressive for just the amount of them.
Hi Ben. Great video. Please stay safe and healthy and take care of yourself and your family members. To all members also. Talk to you later my friend. ☺☺☺😇😇❤
Some of them are worth a bit of money IF they work, but they're going to be a hard sell. Like with all electronics, for parts you'll be lucky to get a couple bucks each, unless you have something very rare or high end. Personally, I'd scrap them out and be done with it, but that's just my personal opinion.
I had that many and a bunch of police car radios by Motorola I took for scrap metal. I still have a tons of Motorola Mx two ways radios and a ton of other 70’ 80 electronics need rid of.
Good you found a hobbyist that will try and light them up. Radios/electronics of that era, the issue is generally the capacitors leak or dry up so they won't function. They can be made operational but it takes know-how and patience and would generally be prohibitively expensive to pay someone else to do. The crystal oscillators tend to go out of spec as well with significant age. Neat collection for nostalgia.
Dave Jones from EEV Blog may would be happy to receive it, he's around Melbourne too (at least, i think he's living in this area, maybe he's in Sidney, not sure where he work / live) but, for sure, he's an aussie
the president grant get it working you got a nice one, if your waiting of offers of 1000's you have no chance your looking at about 2.50P per unit unless there good names with leads mic just the heads up mate there value is made by the guy who sits two weeks bringing it back to life robbing peter to pay paul its a dedication that hoarder was simply a keeper of time lines, not much different to me or you you keep scrap as a commodity as you see its value , the order saw his chance to keep a moment in time then found many more time lines to follow all with meaning to him all he had was a commodity for his old age he kept for his son..... but thats another time line most likely forgotten,,,
Sell them by a lot. Put as many different brands in each lot, weight each lot and mark the price per kilo up 20% above clean pressing steel price.. Then advertise on facebook and other sites in lots as buyer picks them up. Just a thought, good luck. Enjoyed 👍👍
At the end of the day you're there to make money. You post them up on Craigslist, see if there's any realistic interest, and if so, great. If not, after a reasonable period of time, you scrap them out and move on.
SOLD to a happy collector who will restore some for his personal collection and donate some restored units to various people in rural areas.
It's all gone to a good home and this lot will be utilized by many.
Great results Ben, thanks for showing us the collection.
Good to hear man.
List them on ebay and provide the link 9.38
Good idea in remote areas to have a cb radio since there’s no reliable WiFi.
Thank god I thought you scrapped them.
E. T. could phone all the homes with that collection.
"e t why are you still out playing with the human boy! put it in its cage and get back here now! please leave your message after the creepy music..."
They should be resold !!! Enthusiasts would snap them up - may take some time to list and send but defo resell !!!
why should they be sold ? if the owner has enjoyment out of them then there is no reason to sell them off.
judging by their age, they would all need a recap align and tune to start off with and then who knows what else.
You have a good idea, with so many wide open spaces in Australia where cell phones don’t work. I’m sure you’d find someone interested in having these radios.
We want you to do a scrap Marathon with all does old computers
To the top !!!!
What a fantastic find of legacy technology, a shame there is not a scrap market if you try to scrap then out. Maybe a Marine dealer, or collector/ repair restore guy . Good luck, I thinks its worth a shot and keeping them for a while,
The radios with SSB mode are worth more than the AM only mode radios. Ham radio operators will modify them to use in the Amateur 10 meter band that is just a little higher in frequency than the CB 11 meter band. It's easy to pick them out. They will have SSB printed on them and a switch for selection of USB LSB and AM mode's.
if he picks the cream he will be stuck moving them all, greed will kill deals
don’t scrap it sell the stuff you can get big profit
Amazing profitt...
@@turji Yep but he dosen't got many space by the time it will sell :)
What a great collection of CB's. Hope you can find someone nearby who can make you a deal relatively quickly. Sometimes these kinds of finds present a paradox.
Congrats on a massive collection!
Nice collection!,good that they went to a good home!.i used to have 120 cb's but sold most of them to a ham radio dealer!.
So glad you’re not scrapping this👊🏻😉.
When I saw the thumbnail I was hoping you were gonna do exactly what you did ! so great minds think alike👌🏻. I wouldn’t even dream of melting this stuff down.
This whole group is gonna look awesome when it’s all stacked up on some chipboard in someone’s man cave and I’d love to see a photo of it if they ever send it to you👊🏻😁.
Yeah, CB's are not my thing but it's a little bit of history I think someone needs to hold onto.
Hey, you got me into melting, thanks! Lol it’s so fun
@@eWasteBen Are any of them FM Transceivers?
Awsome collection
There is a ham fest in a few weeks in Wyong they would be sort after !
That's awesome, I'd love to have those
its a pity no uses them anymore I have 3 and haven't heard a peep only 27mhz sideband sometimes but very rare. good for a museum.
Thanks for the view, I hope they can find a nice home!
Holy smokes! :o Great that they found new home. :)
Oh and thanks for the video I am a collector myself I live in the states though I really enjoyed that video
Now that's a collection!
Have a Great Day My Friend!!
i would of bought the whole lot as im a collecter but i live in england shipping cost would cost a mint lol nice collection ben
you and me both mate me = Short Circuit, halifax uk lol bet your black shark lol
If worse case there should be good silver content in them and old style tanti thanks for the update about two more weeks for street scrapping? Two thumbs
Street scrapping starts again this weekend
@@eWasteBen man how time flies thank you looking forward to it
@@eWasteBen if i email you could you help me with circuit board recycling? Seems like no one locally does it.
My scrap yard would only do as scrap steel they told someone else recently. Atm i got 6kg and increasing
Can't wait for the scrap marathon
The realistic fm converter is cool addition to an old school am radio.
I don't know what the state of ham radio is these days, but the Internet was hot on the tail of CB and ham as of the 1990s then cell phones also - for viability of communications. But you'd think that some might still amuse themselves with CB and ham. Any one of those sets in full working order and you could talk locally, and then also globally, IF anyone is out there. A 23 channel one, thus having sideband, with a really powerful elaborate antenna, for the long distance ham. An 18 channel AM one for around the neighbouring suburbs, with only small basic antenna required. Either a power supply unit plugged into a mains, or, off a car battery with the negative lead clipped onto the positive and vice versa [ otherwise you blow the unit ], in order to power it.
This has to be the best Free haul you have gotten
Ben don't turn them on without the cable antenna plugged in cause if you do you'll fry the circuit boards
the ones in stack2,3 w'green knobs are rare as with the ones below them,realalistic was a radio shack brand,unidens are very common. good video
SELL EM!
scrap the busted ones, sell the rest!
altho ben needs his space back asap!
Sell them for parts, he would get alott more than scrap prizes, period.
@@turji yep but space is money too :p
you need scrappers to make the workers and the guy that said scrap them to sell as parts greed kills sales lol bet you buy up all the disability scooters cheap and sell the parts then no ones can afford to buy them and rot in there flats geoff upton is right you sell them as units each with a value it just how its done on radios its the code of conduct most us guys keep
Finally, I was waiting for this series of videos.
Ohhh no I thougth you were going to scrap them.
CB radios are not dead.
They have a legitimate use in certain areas where nothing else can get a signal.
When all the high tech stuff fails these will keep working due to their simplicity.
thumps up very nice material.. hope i can find like that soon..
👍great to see they sold,would have been a shame to scrap them out👍
That's a cool old collection, awesome to see you trying to see them go to the right place rather than scrapping them cheers for that .. I would love that old Karinna ksb18 in my collection (3rd from bottom in left row) I have been hoarding these things myself since I was 15yo! .. to be honest there is only maybe a dozen actually desirable radios amongst that lot and everything looks to be in poor condition really however they are still cool and someone would love them, if you put them on eBay as one big lot local pickup only the listing would go parabolic I'd think! .. that's definitely the way to get best $$.. good luck with it
Holy crap. That's good they went to a good home, especially considering they would have ended up in the landfill. Thanks man.
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Hope you got good money........quite valuable find there......4 figures easy.
Worth more at the scrap yard
Are these CB radios what pupils used for studying in the outback back in the days?
Theaters and film makers could be interested for props to use (sci-fi) and nostalgy scenes etc.
umm how many you seen since 1in die
hards fire sale in the warlocks command centre lol. dedicate a lifetime mending them and relight the cb fire " your a radio 5 burning 40 candles there good buddy and ya wife says hurry up back or the dog gets ya tea boy"
Yooo
Quite a haul on what looks like all mobile CB units. To clarify a bit, USB and SSB means channels between the normal 23 channels allocated for CB use. Normal 23 channel units were limited to 5 watts output while USB and SSB upped the power to 15 watts output from the same unit. USB/SSB channels were usually clearer on receive and transmit and were less crowded than the regular 23 channels, although more finicky to tune correctly. Since those are all Aussie units are they still just 12 volt systems? I assume they are. IF any of them still work, they should fetch a fair amount from preppers and others. I was heavy into CB radios through the 70s and 80s, but lost interest after that. At the worst, you could sell them at a ham radio fest or something like it for ten bucks each and fetch a nice 800 bucks or more. Can't blame you for not wanting to mess about with them too much though...and shipping to anywhere outside Aus. would not be cheap at all.
Nice finds though...impressive for just the amount of them.
USB-upper side band, SSB---single side band.
Hey Ben you have a few police scanners in the lot they are old Cristal type worth taking a look at them
love it
Any with AM \ SSB Look after them as they can go a lot father than normal CB"s
worth a lot of money today
Im not a radio guy but did they found the mystery cpu box thats maybe hiding in the house
I need one but I'm in the UK
Looking forward to a scrap marathon sometime soon.
Hi Ben. Great video. Please stay safe and healthy and take care of yourself and your family members. To all members also. Talk to you later my friend. ☺☺☺😇😇❤
Some of them are worth a bit of money IF they work, but they're going to be a hard sell. Like with all electronics, for parts you'll be lucky to get a couple bucks each, unless you have something very rare or high end. Personally, I'd scrap them out and be done with it, but that's just my personal opinion.
Should get in touch with Dave at eevblog, I bet his viewers would be interested
Please don't.
Hi Ben any with 40 channel usb,lsb and clarifier dials are worth $100+usd.each on todays market.
Wow that’s alot of radios.🌺
Great Video Ben Keep Bringing The Video's Dude 👍👍
I used to have that toy when I was a kid seen at 5:30
Do you still have the handhelds some of those are rare . Did you say one was a sideband you don't see too many of them CB handheld side bands
I see a Courier Spartan 40!!
That's a great collection Ben! Hope you find someone to save them! 👍👍
Headlines read "Local Man Becomes Rich Selling CB Hoard". Begins mouse catch and release project.
lol not a chance of that bulk there but few of any big value
I had that many and a bunch of police car radios by Motorola I took for scrap metal. I still have a tons of Motorola Mx two ways radios and a ton of other 70’ 80 electronics need rid of.
Mike where are u located?
@@TheKnasty333 north Arkansas
set one for all of 40 channel's and say "hi to the world" or?
What will be the price in scrap ben
Scrapping them is not an option, scrap value is not much more than scrap steel, much more value just to keep them as is
The one with the green face just below his hand at 2:31 looks choice. I don't see a name.
edit; gemtronics 1976 GTX-2325
Some good cb radios there sell them they go for good money awesome collection there
Any cobra c.b's
Hey Ben, I’d be interested in a couple of the unidens in the right hand pile at the top? Cheers
He said to contact him by his mail
They look historic already, crikes I'm old....
I say try snd sell them all if they don't sell in a couple weeks scrap them
Looks like my basement.
Scrap one or more to find out scrap value ??
Good you found a hobbyist that will try and light them up. Radios/electronics of that era, the issue is generally the capacitors leak or dry up so they won't function. They can be made operational but it takes know-how and patience and would generally be prohibitively expensive to pay someone else to do. The crystal oscillators tend to go out of spec as well with significant age. Neat collection for nostalgia.
The Realistic Device in the CB Radios is a Scanner and an old one it Looks like a PRO41 www.rigpix.com/rs-realistic/realistic_pro41.htm
The philips CB were the most robust
Wouldn't mind getting some but shipping to the states would be$$$
I think 2kg to usa is like 70aud(about 25usd)
shame Melbourne is 12k from california,nice find
awesome ill give ya a dollar each and you pay shippin to america ;) great old radios
I would take them all lol they are good radio's sell them on a Facebook c.b group big $$$ in your pocket
CB shop... usually near truck stops....
Dave Jones from EEV Blog may would be happy to receive it, he's around Melbourne too (at least, i think he's living in this area, maybe he's in Sidney, not sure where he work / live) but, for sure, he's an aussie
wow heaven
oh oh oh !! Sent an email!!!!! LOL
Emailed you ben
some old cb can be worh some money
the president grant get it working you got a nice one, if your waiting of offers of 1000's you have no chance your looking at about 2.50P per unit unless there good names with leads mic just the heads up mate there value is made by the guy who sits two weeks bringing it back to life robbing peter to pay paul its a dedication that hoarder was simply a keeper of time lines, not much different to me or you you keep scrap as a commodity as you see its value , the order saw his chance to keep a moment in time then found many more time lines to follow all with meaning to him all he had was a commodity for his old age he kept for his son..... but thats another time line most likely forgotten,,,
You should give them to Shango066 he would try and get them working again
Shango066 is in US. The sipping is not going to be cheap.
👍😀👍
Put them on your local Facebook selling groups
9.38 😍😍😍😍😍😍
Why don't you scrap it?
ebay sell them
10:51 Uniden SSB 🤤
im interested im in south eastern suburbs of vic i will get incontact with you tommorow
You would think that the SHTF preppers will be snatching them like hot cakes...
check the hamradio club's in your citty.
mvg
W.Beljaars
PG0BV
HELLEVOETSLUIS
The Netherlands
uniden are ok
Plug one in, turn it on and find a person or kangaroo using one. Ask them if there is a community hub. Job lot them on there.
Sell them by a lot. Put as many different brands in each lot, weight each lot and mark the price per kilo up 20% above clean pressing steel price.. Then advertise on facebook and other sites in lots as buyer picks them up. Just a thought, good luck. Enjoyed 👍👍
DON'T SCRAP!!
Please dont e waste them. . How much do you want for a couple could you post some to me ? Iam in qld...
They all sold to a cb radio collector & restorer, it's all gone to a good home and they paid more than fair price so both parties are very happy
At the end of the day you're there to make money. You post them up on Craigslist, see if there's any realistic interest, and if so, great. If not, after a reasonable period of time, you scrap them out and move on.