This is a Lafayette Comstat 35 tube-type CB radio base station from about 1975. These were pretty popular and were high end 23 channel radios in their heyday.
I saw this at a yard sale and couldn't help myself. It was lonely, dirty, and needed some love :-).
I gave this radio a full massage, replaced some tubes, capacitors, a few out of spec resistors, serviced all controls and switches, padded the pa output load trimmer to load correctly, replaced the internal speaker, gave It a full alignment, and added 2 more crystals to give it channel groups 26-35 (the AM channels).
It has some character marks (scratches, etc), but overall looked very good for a 49 year old radio, see the photos. Power output is about 3 watts. Receiver sensitivity is very good, .15uV @ 10dB. This is a very solid radio!
