My friend Jason Shared a Facebook link with Me, for these 4 radios. The lot Included a Cobra 148 SSB CB Radio, and 3 AM CB radios. Check out Jason's RU-vid Channel, / 45amt
Great deal on some excellent old radios. All Favorites of mine and well-known time-tested Radios. Thanks for Sharing John and have a great weekend. Catch you at the hangout. 73 Ny202/Drew.
You can normally tell if a radio has a ton of hours on it because the meter lights will be burned out. Now you have to figure out which ones will be winter projects and which ones will go in the parts box. Early last month I got a Second Chance option on a Tram Titan 4, so I took it. The story from the seller was that the radio, among others, were found when a long-abandoned CB shop was cleared out. The seller was from North Carolina and was quite honest about the radio condition. Years of water dripping on the left side of the wooden case ruined it. The radio itself most likely wound up in the shop due to issues caused by cold solder joints, which I've repaired. The main reason I bought it was because the printed letters on the front panel are in really good shape. They wear off way to easily for a radio whose MSRP was $627 in 1973 dollars. Three big resistors went up in stinky smoke but they were easily replaced.
You did really well with that buy. Could not of happened to a better family. Your wife and you remind me of my family years ago when we did CB. Lots of fun.
@Mower Junkie your videos have giving me a reason to give CB a second chance. I took a break for 2 years after being a cb'er for 35 years. I also gave you a shout out on my channel. 73 from DX-390 in the Bluegrass
Hey Mower! You are one lucky guy. I have spend alot of money try to buy SSB CB radio. All but one worked it is a Midland SSB where the clarifier is on the microphone. I bought a export Excalibur SSB base station. but someone butcher the PLL on a beautiful radio. If you see it look brand new still in the box it came in. Hope to catch you one day on the radio. 73!
Excellent video John :) lots goodies find on Marketplace place in talking radios for sure and myself has to in past 4 years for parts or good condition to!
HEY! I'm glad you got these! I saw they sold and was hoping you got them! Heck the mics alone was worth the $20. Guess non working others you can keep for parts. And a good working 148 is just icing on top!
Yup! I jumped on these radios, as soon as I saw Your message. That cobra Mic is My favorite part of the lot.....And I didn't even know I was getting it! Thanks again Jason, 73's
Hi MJ 151! Don't you just love getting a great deal? A month ago I scored a Uniden PC66XL and a Messenger 2V linear for thirty bucks! Both are working too! If I hear you on the air with the 148 I'll run a video gate! 73's!!! 325 NJ
Remembering my CB, that Regency might be a good radio because you stated that the jack on the mic is bad. Well, I remember that you need 3 wire connected on the mic to transmit and receive; with 1 wire being common to the other two - ground. Ground one wire to transmit and ground the other wire to receive. You need to poke about the mic jack on the radio to find them: ground being the easiest to find with a mutlimeter. Then ground the other pins to it to see what the radio does. Chances are finding what pins dies what will get that radio to work.
I have a sears road talker 40. I use it to talk on ssb as my base station radio! I talk skip with it all the time. Great find 73s mower junkie from 849 mud duck mobile Chesapeake Bay
I believe that 148 has a low receive. It showed weak signals while the 21ltd and Road Talker showed more. I have had several 148's China, and low receive is fairly common. With a preamp they are acceptable, aligning the receive didn't help the ones I had with low receive. But one 148 I had was better, I kept that one. Hopefully yours was on when signals were truly low and not just the fault of the radio, but I doubt that was it.
I think the receive is working fine. a lot of time had passed in between testing each radio. It was just quiet when I tested the 148. Thanks for watching, 73's from 151 SC.
When you said the 148 wasn't one of the good ones, could you elaborate on that? I don't know much about the 148, but I've been considering getting one.
The first generation 148 was made by Uniden, and has the mic connector on the side of the radio. The second generation was made in China, and has the mic connector on the front of the radio. The Uniden made 148 is a much better radio.
I’ll give ya $20 just for the 148 🤣 I wish they would list stuff besides the standard cobra 29’s around here. I like them, but I already have enough. I look occasionally in hopes of seeing a SSB radio locally.
