why did they mess with an already proven design our old cobra 148gtl dx/superstar 360fm with 3 crystal pb010aa/ab board, take one good cobra add some ssb vco swag a hint of graininess a good dose of bleedover and call it a superstar 3900 or galaxy pluto, why make a radio worse and not better, are any of these newer export radios as good as the pb010ab cobra or are they all crap like a magnum deltaforce,
what ever happened to the pb999 board that came in our president grants, they had an extra tuned coil in the local signal to the second mixer for am/fm which seems to me the reason they had such a good rx on am/fm since the rest of the rf stages are almost identical, i have never looked at the 10.240 signal to the mixer compared to the cobra board on a spectrum analyser but i would have a small wager its cleaner than in the other export radios, the grant was even better than the cobra with a quieter rx and better am/fm rejection in most peoples opinion over here, why do these manufacturers have a knack for taking a perfectly decent radio and screwing it up then glossing over what they did with advertising bs and an echo board?