Even if you were to state "all of the junk out there" it would not be a
mutually inclusive statement. It would not include all radios, just all
radios that are "junk" how you define junk
would be the problem! There are some really well built 40 channel rigs like
Tram, SBE to name a few. SBE had a couple early 40 channel "cooker dial"
radios not sure who else. That is a lot of little bitty channel numbers on a
dial!!! I do not recall any 23 channel radios with LED displays but there
may have been some. There were several early 23 channel radios with what
used to be called 22a and 22b channels in them. You often had to carefully
turn the dial between ch. 22 and 23 to catch the spot on the rotary switch
to be there. For a time, there was a PA spot between ch 22 and 23. This was
to disable the in between channels by giving the switch spot something else
to do. 24 position rotary switches were commonly available so were used
instead of a 23 position switch early on at least. I think the Lafayette 525
and Courier 23 were a couple of them. In the mid seventies every one wanted
apiece of the CB craze action and jumped in. Quality took an overall big
dive in the industry. I never had anyone complain about the Cobra radios The
19, 21 and 29 were very good radios if not the best in their price range.
Around here in the Seattle area there is not much activity on CB. In the
evening there are a bunch of ops on channel 8 (who mostly argue and threaten
each other) and that is about it. There is some scattered activity on
occassion but the regulars are all on ch. 8. Pretty sad compared to the
amount of activity on the late sixties! There were large groups on several
channels back then depending on the area you were in and operating
interests. It was very rich in "CB culture" back then. The only Cb I still
have is a Lafayette 625 mobile radio. It has a REAL receiver in it. Good
filtering, good adjacent channel rejection. The 23 channel radios are just
fun and memorable to me. I would like a Courier Royale or a Tram Titan 2 if
I were to become active on CB again.

Magnum my friend, I said some of the new junk out there, not all of
it. Note the word "some". Feel free to chuckle to the others on 24.
You felt the need to laugh at my expense because I like using my 23
channel radio, feel free, your not the first one. Please don't
misquote or read into what I posted.

I laughed because it was funny. You can laugh at me if you like, it's of
little consequence. Why take it personally.

Regards,
Graham

I didn't...

That's good then. Is your 23ch CB one with a cooker dial? Im not sure if
they all were or if there was a few LED readout before they changed to
40Ch?
I used to have an old Alan K350B I think it was which was quite a large
40ch
radio and that had a cooker dial so maybe there's a few out there of both
types.

Regards,
Graham

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