This is not a liquidation. It is a continuation.

At Derby Park flea market in Louisville, there was a booth that had been there for 27 years. The last 19 belonged to one operator known around here as Colonel Clink. CB gear, ham equipment, bench tools, power supplies, variacs, meters, and anything else electronic he thought he could nurse back to life. Floor to ceiling. Wall to wall. You could not get into it.

When the opportunity came to take it all, I took it. Every radio. Every meter. Every mystery box in the back corner. Over 250 radios and still counting, because I am not even done moving it all home yet. I am SkyWalker. I run a base station here in Louisville, chase skip on 38 LSB, and I knew exactly what this collection was and exactly what it deserved.

Colonel Clink spent 27 years pulling in gear that deserved another shot. One radio at a time, every one of them gets to live again.

Every CB that comes off this bench gets the same treatment.

No shortcuts. No guessing. Here is exactly what happens before anything gets listed.

1. 01 Open it up and inspect for burnt components and traces. If something failed hard, it shows before a single volt goes in.
2. 02 Power it up on a variac with a 10-amp bench supply, brought up slowly to 13.8 volts, connected directly to the rig.
3. 03 First pass through the meters: modulation, power output, and receive. All three checked and noted before anything else happens.
4. 04 Scope pass. Two scopes running at the same time. Scope one connects direct to the radio coax center pin, grounded to the radio body. A T-tap inline with a 20dB attenuator feeds the second scope, which runs to an open slot on the antenna switch for a clean second capture point.
5. 05 If a mic came with it, test it through the mic tester. What you see in the listing is what it actually does.
6. 06 Peak and tune, clean it up, then run the full meter and scope sequence again from the top. What gets listed is the result of the second pass, not the first.