May I pick your brains about radio, please?

[NealB]

Last year, I bought a Comanche 32 catamaran.

I have been removing some radio equipment, and wonder if anyone can answer a few questions?

1) There's a 'Sailor' VHF unit, plus a 'Sailor' LW, SW, SSB receiver. These are fine bits of kit, but they take up too much space and are very heavy. Are they worth anything to anyone?

2) There's a small receiver/ transmitter that looks just like a vhf, and has vhf connectors. It has channel 16 (though no way of tuning to it without using the channel select dial), but it only has channels 1 to 40. Is it a vhf? Is is useful for anything?

I'll be fitting a modern DSC radio, so all the above are redundant.

Thanks for any thoughts.

 

[savageseadog]

I'd be interested in the Sailor units although I'm sure someone will be along in a bit and tell you they are worth a fortune !

 

[cliff]

The Sailor gear is worth a small fortune /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif - real collectors pieces and extremely reliable not to mention valuable - oops I already did mention their value............. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

The other sounds like a CB radio /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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[ccscott49]

The sailor units are saleable, the VHF certainly, the SSB receiver much less so, not many yachts have room for either.
That said, I have a bloody big wheelhouse and would give them a home, either sell them on the forum or put them on E bay.
I agree with Cliff, the other sounds like a CB, not of any value.

 

[Mudhook]

There's a ready market in non-DSC VHF sets, now no longer available new. It's because so many people have found out that DSC isn't all it's cracked up to be, not least because - as discussed on another thread - it's a total pisser being woken up when off watch by the alarm relating to a floating log 100 miles away.

Regards, Mudhook

 

[Bergman]

The Sailor units will have a value, not I suspect as much as some may think. Vintage radio stuff has become very collectable over the last few years, but largely military and 1 or 2 specific pieces of aircraft kit fetch serious sums. Not a great deal of commercial marine kit seems to get traded.

A lot of the military stuff goes to people who play soldiers and like to look authentic so not too worried whether or not it works.

I would suggest a good external clean, some nice pictures and put it all on E-Bay and see what happens.