Another radio falls victim of Bob's CB shop

[Rwb]

Right, he says it has Bob’s seals on it or did. So in my opinion that means someone at Bob’s screwed the pooch on this one. Personally, EKL or ERF smee-RF... I’d drop in some 520’s or N10’s and see if I could get the thing back on par. Then, if that part was important to me, I’d hunt them and swap them in.
I swore i seen you wearin ray charles sun glasses hahaha

To attempt to avoid an argument, in my opinion, absolutely Magnum is a cut above most everything else, at least what’s considered export and was available at the time. Again - in my opinion. And I have a love for these radios, so maybe that makes me blind to everything else.

 

[Handy Andy]

@TheRealPorkchop - your passion is noted!

I had one of their original "delta-force" radios - lost it when things crashed in 2008. We won't go there...

But I can go here...this is a write up about that radio back in 1999! I wasn't kind to them back then because I had found Unidens' way of approach to production seemed better. I had lost faith in Cobra due to their 148F GTL (My Malaria) and its failings...I was skeptical - but then I had found their radios to be quite good as they "progressed" thru their development quirks and got better at doing radios.

 

[Rwb]

@TheRealPorkchop - your passion is noted!

I had one of their original "delta-force" radios - lost it when things crashed in 2008. We won't go there...

But I can go here...this is a write up about that radio back in 1999! I wasn't kind to them back then because I had found Unidens' way of approach to production seemed better. I had lost faith in Cobra due to their 148F GTL (My Malaria) and its failings...I was skeptical - but then I had found their radios to be quite good as they "progressed" thru their development quirks and got better at doing radios.
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great writeup from yesteryeart handy andy

 

[Slowmover]

I was going to change the title but cant.

Put in request to Admin

 

[Handy Andy]

great writeup from yesteryeart handy andy

Many don't realize that Google and AOL, CompuServe - or even Iserv from those years kept everything you posted as archived.

Twitter "deletions" never stood a chance back then to withstand the "mirroring" each server did along the chain.

That was from the days of 14.4K modems - a blast from the past...

Google keeps me humble, for that post archive is just one example of the effort I did to offer honest answers and straightforward opinions - and vice a versa - There's a lot of my thoughts and learning curves in all of that time frame. It tells the story of each one of us, it's who we are from then until now.

Those were fun days, but a lot of spam too.

Taking care to remove and filter out all the false testimony's and fake news back then was just as difficult.

 

[Rwb]

Many don't realize that Google and AOL, CompuServe - or even Iserv from those years kept everything you posted as archived.

Twitter "deletions" never stood a chance back then to withstand the "mirroring" each server did along the chain.

That was from the days of 14.4K modems - a blast from the past...

Google keeps me humble, for that post archive is just one example of the effort I did to offer honest answers and straightforward opinions - and vice a versa - There's a lot of my thoughts and learning curves in all of that time frame. It tells the story of each one of us, it's who we are from then until now.

Those were fun days, but a lot of spam too.

Taking care to remove and filter out all the false testimony's and fake news back then was just as difficult.

yes sir when computer was in its infancy
Your write up was proper,in depth and clear

 

[Low_Boy]

Cool. Someone changed it. Thank You.

 

[Rwb]

Cool. Someone changed it. Thank You.

whew let me brew a fresh pot o coffee n lets start all over again,was thinkin of a title like BOBS CB SHOP MAKES RADIOS SMOKE TOO MANY INTERNAL CIGGARETTES

 

[Low_Boy]

Just makes me laugh. A local guy was sending his radios to Bob's. They keep coming back to him doing big wattage. Then they always do the internal cigarett thing. LoL I am not really trying to bad mouth Bob's but what a coincidence.

 

[543_Dallas]

Isn't big cheap watts what the people want?

 

[Rwb]

Just makes me laugh. A local guy was sending his radios to Bob's. They keep coming back to him doing big wattage. Then they always do the internal cigarett thing. LoL I am not really trying to bad mouth Bob's but what a coincidence.

yes but haha HAHA

 

[Low_Boy]

Well no more matched sets of ERF2030 transistors that I can find. I have no clue what the original blue dot means on the transistors in the radio. I have purchased some of the New SUPER Palomar ERF2030 transistors. I started thinking about doing the replacement with IRF520 transistors. I do not even know what the hot set up on those would be. I thought all the factory IRF520's were Vishay they do not seem to sell them anymore at Mouser. Opinions appreciated. Probably I will end up petting in a set of unmatched 2030's and hoping for the best. It does not seem like the old days. I can not seem to get a hold of anyone at Palomar anymore.

 

[TheRealPorkchop]

I’ll play devil’s advocate here, Maybe you’re just overthinking this thing here, I know there’s the arguments for and against the “matched” sets. While I’m not saying they aren’t important, I am saying does it really matter in this case?

I know we want this perfect signal, we don’t want anything introducing harmonics or distortion into our signal. But is everything else going to be absolutely perfect to the point that an unmatched set will cause chaos? I love Magnum but it’s not like this is the Rolls Royce of radios we’re talking about here. You could argue that too, it needs all the help it can get and not something else to introduce an issue with.

But again, does it really make that big of a difference? Is the juice worth the squeeze? Is it worth all this time and effort for the end result?

 

[Low_Boy]

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I’ll play devil’s advocate here, Maybe you’re just overthinking this thing here, I know there’s the arguments for and against the “matched” sets. While I’m not saying they aren’t important, I am saying does it really matter in this case?

I know we want this perfect signal, we don’t want anything introducing harmonics or distortion into our signal. But is everything else going to be absolutely perfect to the point that an unmatched set will cause chaos? I love Magnum but it’s not like this is the Rolls Royce of radios we’re talking about here. You could argue that too, it needs all the help it can get and not something else to introduce an issue with.

But again, does it really make that big of a difference? Is the juice worth the squeeze? Is it worth all this time and effort for the end result?

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Laughing here because what you are saying is so true.

 

[TheRealPorkchop]

I just wanted to mess with you and pick at the scab a little. Don’t pay me no mind this morning... I didn’t mean anything negative by it my friend.