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June 15th 08, 09:56 AM
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FS: Cobra 2000 GTL $300 a steal
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 |-------------- $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. |
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