found this surfing the bay this evening. It this one of the 148's made by ranger?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184403648192
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184403648192
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Ranger made Cobra 148?
- Thread starter Eldorado828
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No. That one was one of the Malaysian Cobras. They are pretty darn good. You probably want to get that one recapped, if you get it. Then again, for that price, skip it unless you absolutely MUST have one.... Even then you can find them for less.
The Malaysian factory where it was made does indeed belong to Ranger Communications International, the parent company of Ranger USA. RCI has factories there, in Taiwan, mainland China and Vietnam.
Oh, and the name of the town in Malaysia where the RCI factory is located is "Melaka".
1994 was the year after Cobra stopped buying the 148 from Uniden and hired a low bidder. In this case, RCI. Other suppliers of the 148 have come and gone over the last 25 years. Cobra never seems to stop looking for a lower bidder.
One way to be sure is to see if the circuit board has the number "EPT0148" on it. That number will identify a product of an RCI factory.
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Oh, and the name of the town in Malaysia where the RCI factory is located is "Melaka".
1994 was the year after Cobra stopped buying the 148 from Uniden and hired a low bidder. In this case, RCI. Other suppliers of the 148 have come and gone over the last 25 years. Cobra never seems to stop looking for a lower bidder.
One way to be sure is to see if the circuit board has the number "EPT0148" on it. That number will identify a product of an RCI factory.
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Not too common to see a 1999 chip in a 1993 radio, but if you see that one in a radio it's a dead giveaway for sure.
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LOL - yeah, but the wonderful 148F-GTL I had certainly had RANGER printed on the chip - hard to find photos of that thru the web...that technology we see now, didn't translate back then.
We still had the old Slide Viewers and Kodak was just getting into "Burning a CD of your photos"
We still had the old Slide Viewers and Kodak was just getting into "Burning a CD of your photos"
But I do NOT miss Fotomat...
The Speed bumps to the Kmart parking lots and other such sites of interest...
The Speed bumps to the Kmart parking lots and other such sites of interest...
Can you say Microfiche?
I used to work for the company that invented microfiche. Later they invented the CD laser disc.
I worked in the "legacy" area, the "glass room" where I made CRT guns and inserted them into the tubes, gettered them, ect on a glass lathe.
Most of that stuff was MilSpec and is still in use today
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