am transceiver

There's probably nobody to talk to on 27meg AM these days:) Turn the on button on, noises should come out of the speaker. If the aerial is attached, change the channel switch until you find someone to talk to. Then press the button on the mic and go for your life.

Unfortantely 27 Mhz is not used by many people anymore.

Talking to Geraldton might have been possible - but it wouldn't have been consistent. It would have relied on a phenoma called "skip" which radio waves bounce off the ionosphere. Trouble is (1) There is a "zone of silence" between you and when skip signal first happens (2) Dependant on sunspot cycles and whether so it is not consistent

Having said all that - if you don't find a use for it - I may be interested in buying it.

Try upper side band or lower side band through each channel until you can hear something that sounds like voices.(assuming you're not schizo. In that case throw the radio out) This may work better with the squelch turned back so there's continuous background noise initially. Turn the clarifier knob to tune in the voices better. Often if you can hear them, they can hear you. I once had a sideband radio in my shed and late at night with a mate, I called out to anyone listening, and to our surprise about three seconds later we heard our own call come back. We think it skipped around the globe and back. For those whom have used these radios it can be quite exciting to talk to others across the world. I even talked to a couple on AM who said they were at Sidney's north shore, and I was in South Aust.! They did not believe it 'cause AM normally only has a range of maybe 10-20 km. There is still a bit of traffic on the airwaves, sometimes in Australia but often Indonesian fishermen (I think. At least it sounds like it). Rus.

thanks for all your help. there is a knob here sayin am, usb and lsb. also there are buttons saying pa, nb/anl, ch 9. any ideas on what they mean and are used for?? also there is mike gain- rf gain and a clarifier and also tuning knob i would think (the big one). as you would only guess i have never seen one of these in my life, and it differs so much from my uhf radio in the commodore.

I still have my old 27mhz side band CB in the car.
Don't even turn it on that often any more, occasionally useful when doing a trip with some one else in the group who also has 27mhz. Side band useful if I am last and want to talk to the front of the column. Better range than UHF.
Don't hear any one on channel 8 any more, the old road channel.
Normal 27mhz I believe is 5 watt transmit, while side band transmits at 25 watts, and as mentioned above, with the splitting of the band for transmit and recieve, the transmission distance is greater. You may also get some skip.
Rule is that your friend needs to be on the same channel and band, i.e. upper or lower, otherwise you won't hear each other.
Other general usage rule was that side band was only used on channels 13 to 40?
Tryig to remember that one!
There is a tuningknob for tuning side band, as well as squelch.
Gee, this is testing the memory.