Jay in the Mojave wrote:
james wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:25:29 -0700 (PDT), Justin
wrote:
|This rig is in Prestine condition, with a cobra desk mic. I beleive it
|has some sort of mods because it has a switch on the back, i tested it
|and it works to a tee. Asking $300 and help with ship, thanks
|
|Ps- serious enquirers email me for pics at
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$300 dollars? There must be gold in those old radios. There can't be
more that $40 in parts for the whole radio.
james
No thats a good price for that radio. Bill Good (who passed away a few
years ago) a really great Technician and really good friend loved to
work on these radios. Bill had a contact within Uniden and Bill asked
many times to have the radio reintroduced into the market. But the
answer was it cost to much for production. I wounder what the
manufacturing cost to selling cost was on those radios.
I have seen these radio sell for more on E-Bay.
I know these radios had expensive modifications installed that helped
the receiver with crystal and mechanical filters in the IF. And even a
-10 and -20 dB attenuator. And Bill use to remove the stock rf front end
and installed a duel gate mosfet front end that significantly increased
the performance of the receiver. The stock front end had too much gain
and was dirty. Causing way too much bleed over. I remember Bill removing
modifications in the transmitter to return the output power level to the
the stock settings as the audio sounded way better, and made it cleaner.
I asked him once how he knew how the RF Output was dirty or clean, he
replies that he looks at a spectrum analyzer. Well one day I go over to
Bills place quit a drive for me and there is a no **** bingo new HP
Spectrum Analyzer. He shows me a radio that had the golden screw driver
in it, and removes the stupid modification parts, and does a alignment
on the radio and then its clean. There was a significant decrease in
spurs and trash going out.
But as you bought the radio and had the expensive modifications
installed you now had a radio that cost the same or even more than a
amateur radio that was even a better radio.
Bill Good you are missed!
Jay in the Mojave
Jay,
Is that the same Bill from Morgan Hills, CA?
On the subject of the 2000. Even with the design performance issues, not
that a stock radio was that bad, the 2000 was one of the best looking
rigs that came out of that time, as far as I'm concerned. The Cobra 2000
was just a good looking radio that did a decent job with transmit and
receive.
I have a couple of them that I wouldn't take $400 for.