Cobra 138 XLR AM SSB CB Radio (1977-78) 

88 dislikes on this video? Wow - what the heck did people not like?

Wow l heave never seen that before !! I had a Cobra 148 GTL but this l never seen it before !!!🏍️ Nice 👍 video 📸!

Great to See a Video from you again !!!!

I had one in the early 90's that talked louder than any other radio I had before, during, or after... I regretted letting it go and I finally found a good example to clean up and restore to glory. I just received it yesterday and I'm stoked! These things have become unicorns for us. Finding a really clean one is nearly impossible!

Awesome old school rig.. I have a a 1980"s Teaberry Stalker 9 in pristine condition. The RX on that rig is exquisite .. I hear what your are saying about old rigs sounding better.. However now SDR Transceiver have taken it to a different level..Nice upload thanks for sharing 73's

I bought one of these rigs when they came out. First SSB radios I owned, ran a Turner jm+2 on it. Blast from the past. THANKS.

The Holy Grail of the 70s

Those were very expensive in the 70s. All CB were costly back then now they're affordable.

Awesome radio. Still trying to find one thats not all hacked up. Tons of service bulletins on it too, unfortunately. Those radios are suuuper heavy, no hanging that one from your plastic dash

I just got on from Phoenix AZ. I'm a truck driver and took it home. Looking forward to playing with it

Amazing radio, as you said very heavy, got 2 one I got from eBay the other at a Hamfest for parts $25, took me a few days to get it going

Please post more videos

Back in the good old days, Uniden made their own crystal filters for SSB, they reckoned it was cheaper and better quality.

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Just pick one up yesterday in great condition from Fred in NY.. someone added echo using RF gain knob..not a fan of echo, oh well !!.. glad to see you back reviewing radios again.. I enjoyed the one review on the yeti optima MKIII very helpful.. 73 Rick

memories, most CBs had the uniden boards/parts. the 858, 8719, 02a. wow bring me way back to the 3 channel xcel Globe tube. plug / change xcels to change channels.

Excellent video and old Cobra radio don't see much of anymore !

Good old radio

Very nice rig good to see your videos again

Well now everyone is off to eBay to find this radio.

Please fix. My 138 xlr.no transmit.

I had a Cobra 138 that was just a 23 channel, infact just sold it last weekend

138 xlr how many amps do I need 30 it's clipped and peaked Need a power supply

just picked one of these yesterday on e bay NOS 200.00 well worth the money!!!

Back in the 90s i have one that has a digit scan that covers 26.000 to 28.000 megahertz in perfect working shape good memories.....

Welcome back!

An excellent radio.

its clockwise to add power and modulation

Welcome back!!!

Buy mine it's very clean

The older radios do sound better than surface mount technology.

I will never sell my 138 xlr 😅😅😅

i bought 1` in auction ` 18 chanel in australia as new never used no scratches and bought a DigiMax Lite CB channel expansion KIT for CB radio now with roger beep auto scan 300 chanels blue display push in electronic tuner knob to change functions scans 4 chanels in 1 second

Very well made sturdy radios,

I have this same radio and the screw pattern on the side of radio for the mounting bracket is a wider pattern than the new radios, do you know where I can find the the correct mounting bracket for this radio?

You don't see much of them as everyone that had one is keeping hold of them. The other set that was good was the Stalker that had 80 European/American and 40 UK FM I love those sets, even if it is a Uniden board inside. That is a later model, it has the DIM on it. The early and later one had a few mods done to them and a lot swear by the earlier model. I don't care, just give me one! I would love a SSB set, it would make my day being disabled to listen to SSB all day. I had the loan of a set and I heard Brazil on SSb and I heard Japan. I thought japan was on another frequency? Maybe I am wrong on that one. Shame the set had to go back to its owner :-((

Rare as Rockin horse Sxxxx, TOP RADIOS

I miss the (old) natural sounding tube radios. Even better than the early transistor CBS. Don't think any were made in 40 channel though.

I have one also with manual

Looks like the 148's older brother.

12 watts? Um they do more than thst when tuned up. The last one i had did 28.

nice video! nice rig!!

Got it for 1006

Good radios,now they dont deserve cap job

I use a mint mk1 cobra 148GTL DX. with a teardrop 575 m6 mic. NEVER FOR SALE🌚

Is it available for sale?

i just found one in pristine condition made in japan is this rare to not be made in taiwan?

Wait I just have one of these haha

Looks like a TRC-449. Bet they use the same chassis......

I don't want mine.

The radio was excellent but the meter was cheap and nasty nearly all of them fail. The realistic 449 meter or cobra 138/midland13-893 meter would of been a better choice.

For Sale?

i got one of that radio

If cobra made radios like this now and same quality they would sell here in England now we have ssb/am.

disgusto