My handle is Dodgem on the AM band and I also go by the call of
2-5-0. Most of the time you'll hear me squawkin' "Waivin' A Hand DX Land - (Two-Hundred and Five Zero) - Mr. Dodgem Said It - 73's And I'm Back Quiet" Yup, that'd be me,
and I transmit from the town of Indian Head, which is located on the western side of Charles County, Maryland.
The first CB radio I ever had was a Sears Roadtalker 40 #932-38081700, with just a stock mic. The antenna I used on my base back then was just a 102" fiberglass whip, and 30 years later, I am still using a 102" fiberglass whip up on the shingle side, it just works! At the young, mud-duckling age of 9, I bought that old Roadtalker radio at a yard sale for $5.00 and my dad, who is an electronics repair tech, hooked me up with the antenna on the roof of the home-20 and a Realistic 3 amp power supply back in 1979. It was not at all a top shelf rig, but it sure did get through the skip and DX... and still does today!
Even though I have owned more radios than I can count through the years, my base set-up now consists of a Cobra 148GTL that is used with a Galaxy Echo Master Plus base microphone. My second in line was a Radio Shack TRC-495 base unit that I was using with an Astatic D104-Silver Eagle, but, I had wired up an Astatic Echomax 2000 which is the one I talk on in the shop when I'm doctoring everyone's broken down radios, thanks to my fathers career, I followed in the interest of electronics repair from a very early age.
My real pride now is my Cobra 29 XLR I run with an Astatic D104M6-C power mic. That's my mobile unit and the radio I have the most fun talking on. I am currently have a big 72" coil antenna for those good skip days.
I talk on channel 10 and 33, and often on channel 19, when running the soldering iron in the shop. My home channel is 10 and just about any hour of the day you can find me there talking to my favorite CB buddies. That's one thing I enjoy the most about the CB radio, It's a fun hobby and you can meet many great people, and always make new friends. The nice thing about the average CB'er is, we all just want to talk to anyone about anything, and there's never a shortage of conversations.
How did I get the handle "Dodgem - 250"? It's really pretty simple, I used to own a 1986 Dodge Ram D250 pickup, which was fully outfitted with 2 coil-whip antennas, a Uniden Grant XL, and a secondary heater to keep the feet warm, but, there's more to it than that. The term "Dodgem" was a nickname handed down by the officers of the Charles County Sheriffs Department, whom I did a substantial amount of work for in the past years. So, it became the norm for everybody to start calling out Dodgem on their newly installed radios, and of course the D250 just came with the package.
Now, what's with this DM CB Radio Products and what's a DM Kit?
Here's the story. I operate a CB and Scanner repair business here in Indian Head, Maryland and as we all know, every CB junkie has to have the "latest and greatest" in CB radio modification technology and gadgets, and yes, I must include myself in this category. DM CB Radio Products is a small project that started out of my repair business years ago. I discovered that most of my customers could do these modification upgrades themselves with a simple screwdriver and some basic soldering skills, installing my "DM" kits is not rocket science, it's no more complicated than changing a flat tire.
The reason for so many customers (and the reason why a good "CB Doctor" is in such demand these days) is that few of them have the knowledge of electronics parts values, or even know what the difference is between a capacitor and a diode, so, I thought hard about this issue and finally realized, "Why do you need to know the technical garbage if someone is supplying you with the correct, top-quality parts and the instructions that are written in "idiot terms"? The answer is simple, you don't. CB radio mods are not rocket science, you just need to be supplied with the proper parts and the simple instructions on how to apply the kit to the radio.
So, being in the repair business for the love of the art, and not the turn of the dollar, I decided to start selling my kits under the nickname of "DM", given to me by an long time customer who is obviously quite happy with the outcome of my work on his radios, appears he thought it was "magic" or something, and that's where the life of "Dodgem's Majik" CB Radio Products started.
The DM kits are time-tested and I hear the ones still out there floating around from years ago in radios are still working like the day they were installed, so, if you're interested in easy, DIY CB radio add-on kits like my DM kits, click on the links for DM CB Radio Products or if you need DM CB Radio Products' service or repairs, Click Here
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