What's your favorite 'vintage' CB rig?

[smalltiredart]

Cobra 1000 Base....

One of the best sounding AM radios I have owned.....

 

[doctor]

oldest radio favorite

I have two of them TRC441, both still work and leave one or the other on daily, and the second one I picked up was a great price $5 dollars...

doctor

 

[Thestonerguy]

Johnson 124 Base, excellent adj.ch. rejection
Johnson 350, 352,4740
Johnson 123 blackface.
Regency Imperial II
HyGain 674 w/matching HyGain VFO
Demco Super Satelite 3pc
Uniden/President Grant
Teaberry 202, XV, XX, IX
Browning Baron
Courier Citation,Gladiator,Centurion,ClassicI,II,III,
Tram Corsair, Titan II, D201A, D62
Lafayette Comstat 25b, HB-525, HB-625, Telsat 140,HB333
General Radiotelephone MC-11a
SBE Super Console, Sidebander IV, VI, III (SSB Only)
Midland 13-880b - least expensive way for teenager to get into SSB in the early 70's.
Rat Shack Trc-24, 457, 451, 450, 459
Pearce-Simpson Simba, Cheetah
Siltronix Albatross
And of course, The Stoner Pro40.

I'm sure I forgot a few

 

[Master Chief]

SHOW OFF!

 

[Thestonerguy]

SHOW OFF!

Guilty as charged (heh-heh)

 

[RX-8]

Johnson 124 Base, excellent adj.ch. rejection
Johnson 350, 352,4740
Johnson 123 blackface.
Regency Imperial II
HyGain 674 w/matching HyGain VFO
Demco Super Satelite 3pc
Uniden/President Grant
Teaberry 202, XV, XX, IX
Browning Baron
Courier Citation,Gladiator,Centurion,ClassicI,II,III,
Tram Corsair, Titan II, D201A, D62
Lafayette Comstat 25b, HB-525, HB-625, Telsat 140,HB333
General Radiotelephone MC-11a
SBE Super Console, Sidebander IV, VI, III (SSB Only)
Midland 13-880b - least expensive way for teenager to get into SSB in the early 70's.
Rat Shack Trc-24, 457, 451, 450, 459
Pearce-Simpson Simba, Cheetah
Siltronix Albatross
And of course, The Stoner Pro40.

I'm sure I forgot a few

I'm curious... which CB's were you not happy with?

 

[Thestonerguy]

Johnson 124 Base, excellent adj.ch. rejection
Johnson 350, 352,4740
Johnson 123 blackface.
Regency Imperial II
HyGain 674 w/matching HyGain VFO
Demco Super Satelite 3pc
Uniden/President Grant
Teaberry 202, XV, XX, IX
Browning Baron
Courier Citation,Gladiator,Centurion,ClassicI,II,III,
Tram Corsair, Titan II, D201A, D62
Lafayette Comstat 25b, HB-525, HB-625, Telsat 140,HB333
General Radiotelephone MC-11a
SBE Super Console, Sidebander IV, VI, III (SSB Only)
Midland 13-880b - least expensive way for teenager to get into SSB in the early 70's.
Rat Shack Trc-24, 457, 451, 450, 459
Pearce-Simpson Simba, Cheetah
Siltronix Albatross
And of course, The Stoner Pro40.

I'm sure I forgot a few

I'm curious... which CB's were you not happy with?

GE "Superbase"
Midland 79-290
Icom 706
Alinco DX70
Rat Shack Trc-23b, Trc-46, HTX-100
Most Royce's
Most RCI's
Cobra 148F-GTL
Cherokee CBS-1000 /Cobra 2010
Palomar Skipper 71 or maybe it was the 73
Yaesu FT-100D

 

[Toll_Free]

Cobra 1000 Base....

One of the best sounding AM radios I have owned.....

Cobra 29 with a power supply.

Just in case you'd like to replicate it today.

--Toll_Free

 

[Thestonerguy]

Cobra 1000 Base....

One of the best sounding AM radios I have owned.....

Cobra 29 with a power supply.

Just in case you'd like to replicate it today.

--Toll_Free

Oh Toll_Free.....don't spoil the mystique of the fancy cabinet....and how ya been doing??

Woody

 

[nite-eagle]

Favorite "OLD" CB radio -

My all-time favorite "OLD" CB would be a Johnson Viking 4740.
Followed close behind is a Grant XL.
After that it would be:
Robyn SB-540D -
Uniden PC122XL -
Sears Road Talker 40SSB -
Johnson Viking 352 -
Tram Diamond 60 -
Boman CB 770 -
Johnson 123SJ with Johnson power supply -
Uniden Washington -
Yaesu FT747GX -
Midland 76-300 -
All the above are in original stock condition.
Only Tuned and aligned to correct factory specs.

The rest of my collection are newer radios and do not come close to the quality and good audio sound these older rig's have. IMHO

73 to all and God Bless, John - Nite-Eagle aka. Stargazer

 

[King Mudduck]

As far a base radios go anything Collins works for me. They are high as hell but if you want the best you go to pay for it. Its just a good thing i have a very understanding wife!

 

[BIONIC_TEXAN88]

cobra 142gtl or the president washington

 

[nightwatch]

President Washington, Cobra 29, and Cobra 85. All Mint!!

 

[zumlin]

You guys shold post pics, Kinda neat checking out this gear.
I know ive never seen many of them

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figure the numbers ............Cobra 2000 from 1979 to final year 1993 . From 25 to 14 years of age today.

I love the dual conversion 8719 chassis for receive... However, I like the broadbandedness of the single conversion 8719 (the 140/142 chassis).

For SSB, I like the 858 chassis Uniden put out. Built in speech processing, just about any and everything you could need in a radio (with the 138/139s).

However, my ALL TIME favorite is this: the ARF 2001.

Find me one, and I'll give you sexual favors I owned one, and lost it, and would love to find another. You can't beat them, they had real processing on AM and SSB, 145106 pll, all motorola, and built in the USA.

After that one, any of the CPI radios (I've owned lots), and finally, the Stoner radios.

Yes, I live less than an hour from Watsonville (land of SBE), so I'm biased Matter of fact, one of the original sel-cal engineers of SBE fame talks on the radio nightly.. . On an old 23 channel rig!!!

--Toll_Free

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[PA629]

Many years back, I had a Tram D201 that was a real workhorse. More recently, I had a modded Cobra 142GTL that performed flawlessly. Never should have sold either rig.