Dang! I locked the cap key!

Anyhow, I just went up tot he shop and pulled the big lights out so I
could look the communication system over well.

I'll be...

The radio is a Uniden and the LED doesn't work. And had only one
coaxial mount, the other antenne was for something else.

The two antenne are miss matched. One is a Ray Jefferson, and the other
is some off brand which looks almost identical with exception of the
mount, which you pull straight up and let it drop to mount, then you
have to pull it up again to lay it down.

The Jefferson has a lever with which, you pull up for a release, set
the antenna, then lock it back into place. works pretty well, actually,
but the lever is in a PITA place to get to. is about 6'5 feet long, and
the no-name is about 6. Plus the Jefferson looks like it was made for
the boat, and the add-on is exactly what it is, and add on, and when
both antenne straight up, the Jefferson is ni-on to straight vertical,
while the no-name rests at some sort of an angle at least 7 degrees.
Up on further investigation in the cuddy, I saw a couple wires, red and
black with a fuse, and a mic mount screwed into the wood.Also, Voila!
there's the coaxial end for the antenna as well, stuffed down between
the bedding pad. so Eisboch, I take it you were right. there was a CB
mounted in there. I don't know what they did for an antenne for the
ancient GM am/fm 8 track, that is hanging under the dash, but it's
going to go, too!

So, I'm pretty well settled that for a Marine radio, I'll cross that
bridge when I get to it. but the no-name antenna is going to go. If i
go with a mounted VHF I'll be finding a nicer place to mount it. The
people that had this, have the depthfinder AND the VHF mounted right in
the way of vision, which I don't care for. too cluttery, and not good
thinking.

Here's a pic of the dash layout

http://i7.ebayimg.com/04/i/08/c7/ee/fe_12.JPG

http://i15.ebayimg.com/03/i/08/c6/45/07_12.JPG

pretty tacky, huh?


I think I can clean it up pretty well, though. The old radios
gobye-bye, and now to find a better place for the depthfinder....






Tim wrote:
I'm oging back up to check stuff out in a moment, I'm really not sure
if the radio itself is a Ray Jefferson? But I KNOW THE ANTENNE ARE,,,,


Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 18 Nov 2006 13:57:31 -0800, "Tim" wrote:

I ahve to make a correction, this set us is a Ray Jefferson" not "Ray
Johnson"

I figured that anyway.

Ray Jefferson radios were state of the art in their day. It was
during the period of time where Raytheon was a leader in all kind of
sophisticated electronics and military electronic hardware Ray
Jefferson was the consumer division. One of the more interesting
radio I've ever owned was a Ray Jefferson 630 which was a great BCB
radio for DX'ing.

It's an interesting radio - I'd be interested in seeing a picture of
it.

In any case, it's dated so I'd look around for something a little more
modern.