Best Recieve Qualities Of Any Reciever New Or Old

[microo1234]

Looking to buy and get back into CB (why?) I was very involved in the hobby back in late 60's and early 70's. I enjoyed the heck out of it. Had a CB shop back then at a young age. Had many different radios and repaired most of that time. Want your opinions before I purchase. I want the best sensitivity, best signal to noise, and best adjacent channel rejection. I'm also looking for best expandability, both channels and clarifer (if the unit is SSB). Any ideas??? Microo

 

[BOOTY MONSTER]

http://www.worldwidedx.com/cb-band-cb-radios/32430-what-radios-have-best-ears.html

 

[9C1Driver]

Looking to buy and get back into CB (why?) I was very involved in the hobby back in late 60's and early 70's. I enjoyed the heck out of it. Had a CB shop back then at a young age. Had many different radios and repaired most of that time. Want your opinions before I purchase. I want the best sensitivity, best signal to noise, and best adjacent channel rejection. I'm also looking for best expandability, both channels and clarifer (if the unit is SSB). Any ideas??? Microo

One thing you must also consider is who tuned and aligned your radio. A great radio that's either not tuned and aligned or done wrong will be average to crappy. That's not the radio's fault.

On the flip side I could send a Sears Roadtalker to DTB Radio, or Doug at Custom cb radio and have outstanding receive.

 

[15minigrass]

MOst of the cobras and 70's, 80's built CB radios excluding exports are one of the best in receive. Exports seem to have a lot of white noise also high pitched noise.

148GTL/Grant/146GTL etc. Lots of mods for channels etc. (The 146GTL will need the PLL chip swapped out and some tuning and alignments)

 

[wavrider]

TRC 457 or 458, hard to beat those old chassis.

 

[SmackDown]

I always had great receivers with my late version Madison (MB8719) and with my Cobra 148GTL-DX.


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[The Jerk]

Most people seem to think the Uniden Grant and Cobra 148 have the best out-of-box receivers.

 

[Shockwave]

Some may have other opinions but here are mine. The Browning Mark III receivers are some of the most sensitive made. The Nuvistor front end amplifier has lots of gain and is very hard to beat in this area. The Tram D-201 has perhaps the best tone quality of any 11 meter receiver even on the internal speaker. You may laugh at this one but the TRC-421 and TRC-422 had some of the best adjacent channel rejection specs of any receiver in the ballpark of 90db.

 

[psycho]

Looking to buy and get back into CB (why?) I was very involved in the hobby back in late 60's and early 70's. I enjoyed the heck out of it. Had a CB shop back then at a young age. Had many different radios and repaired most of that time. Want your opinions before I purchase. I want the best sensitivity, best signal to noise, and best adjacent channel rejection. I'm also looking for best expandability, both channels and clarifer (if the unit is SSB). Any ideas??? Microo

Without a doubt the best base radios for receive are the Uniden/President Madison and Cobra 2000 GTL. Mobile....Uniden Grant/Grant XL and pre 1998 Cobra 148 GTL. I know nothing about tube type radios so I can't recommend any.
Leaps and bounds better than anything else..............now this assumes the radios haven't been raped or superwackpacked.