Thanks I'll check it out, but how old is that radio ? It might be hard to find !Midland 8001XT was a good radio that did AM, FM, and SSB. It was my first sideband radio and it sounded great too!
Thanks I'll check it out, but how old is that radio ? It might be hard to find !Midland 8001XT was a good radio that did AM, FM, and SSB. It was my first sideband radio and it sounded great too!
It was discontinued in 2015, and with how good they worked, I highly doubt you will find one for sale. If you ever do, I highly recommend it. Here's a look under the hood of this one. Unfortunately, I traded this one to a friend for his Uniden Washington (i do like that washington though). I got this one back temporarily to see why it quit working (fuse blown, otherwise fine, he must have hooked it up with reverse polarity lol). I always liked how neat this board looks. They even silk screened the names for the variable resistors onto the boardThanks I'll check it out, but how old is that radio ? It might be hard to find !
Yeah it sort of looks like CB interest is dieing in general but ham will probably go on for a while. When enough of us old timer fade away so will CB. But I could be wrong ! Some companies only want to invest in fast moving products.Midland radios used to be good but nowadays they are just a name and no substance.
That's a shame they dropped the 979. I have 2 of them both with the 347 6 digit frequency counters plugged in the back of them and like them a lot. I'm in N/E PA were it get's cold and they don't drift that bad. Maybe on a cold winter morning you might have to play with the clarifier to keep it adjusted a little but no one ever complained about the way I sounded. Your right quality has went down hill some-what in everything.I think he also said the 979 line had been dropped.
When it gets down to the bottom line we can thank the big unions demanding too much and mismanagement of funds by upper level management. ( American Greed )We've kinda been sold out by greed and monopolies.
There is very little development in the 11-meter market as the market share is just not there to support it. All there is now is rehashed exports and the used market. It is a shame because back in the day there were some fantastic radios made for 11 meters, Stoner, CPI, Tram, Browning, and early Cobra.Yeah it sort of looks like CB interest is dieing in general but ham will probably go on for a while. When enough of us old timer fade away so will CB. But I could be wrong ! Some companies only want to invest in fast moving products.
Get an Anytone-6666, 11m conversion is two buttons on the front and it's a great radio out of the box. Do not have anyone "tune" it for you. Just buy one new and get on the air. It's a 10m export and has AM/FM and the SSB that you most definitely want. I have two of them and both put out about 75 watts PEP on SSB according to my meter. My Stryker 955 (which really looks like the same amp section as the Q6) only puts out 10 more watts and actually has less features than the Q6. Both are good, but for around $250 you can't go wrong with the Anytone.Thanks I forgot to check for SSB. Their only model with SSB is over $400.00 and I won't be going that route. LOL