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keith in atlanta
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 6:15 pm: | 
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I talked to the marketing department at Uniden on Friday and was assured that not only are they going to continue in CB, they have several new CB Radios that will be coming out this Fall. I have seen on several sites that people claim that Uniden is getting out of CB. They are going to get out of Radar Detecters. |
619
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:02 pm: |
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my first mobil was a uniden 510 it fit where the ash tray used to be, for the money it had a lot of Quality built in. |
Alsworld
| | Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:07 pm: |
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That is encouraging. I had e-mailed Uniden after seeing all the postings about them getting out of Cb radios. They ensured me they were not, but ironically the SSB LT was almost impossible to find and no longer even listed on their website.
I see Coppers now has them but I have not checked Unidens website for a few weeks (which had eliminated the LT altogether).
It will be interesting to see how it all comes out.
As a consumer, I just want the Company to tell me the truth. I am a Uniden fan just wanting the straight answer.
Alsworld |
Tech671
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 10:42 am: |
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I hope Uniden keeps going, and it would be nice to see them expand. Maybe the backlash made them rethink the decision. |
ryan
| | Posted on Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 1:03 pm: |
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as long as they dont go the way of cobra and cut back on the quality of their product, they will keep going strong in the CB world |
TomCat
| | Posted on Friday, March 07, 2003 - 9:46 am: |
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Hey Keith in Atlanta,
I recently went out on Uniden Australila's web site and they have a radio that does their UHF 40 channel CB and AM 40 channel CB that is wrapped up in a nice compact package. The UHF side runs on a Freq range around 477MHz and the AM side 27MHz. Unfortunatly when I emailed the site that had these units for sale they said it was illegal to sell them to us here in the states. But hopefully they (Uniden) will do something like that here in the states with AM CB and UHF(GMRS Freqs). It really was a good looking radio, and compact too. Model number is UH-090... |
2600
| | Posted on Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 2:21 am: |
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Just don't ask Uniden for a service manual to the Grant LT. Seems they're a little touchy about that little detail.
73 |
Weakeststation
| | Posted on Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 4:28 am: |
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I have seen it posted on the world wide radio forum as well, and their are alot of distributors who say they got a letter stating this, but others have said they talked to em and there not stopping the line????? who knows sometimes.. |
Kc0gxz
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 2:33 pm: |
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I wouldn't worry about Uniden getting out of the radio business. They have be making them since they bought out the President line back in the early 70s. They have been making circuit boards for a very long time for just about anything you can think of.
Their board designs were so good and inexpensise that Cobra even went to them for their radios. For many years there wasn't to much of a difference between a Uniden and a Cobra radio. But sometime during the late 80s,to early 90s, things started to unravel between Cobra and Uniden. Cobra wanted Uniden to give them a substantial price cut on the cost of the PC boards that Uniden was supplying them with. Uniden refused.
Cobra had a "falling-out" and decided to have their radios manufactured in China because it could be done at half the cost. People there work for about $2.50 a day before taxes.
Most consumers didn't realize the change-over other than the Techs around the country here. Just looking inside of one of them told the whole story. Cheaply made PC boards, the use of difficult-to-solder single strand bell wire, inferior componets, etc. etc.etc. Oh well.
Like "Alsworld", I would buy a Uniden any day over a Cobra. I just feel better about Uniden.
I'm not saying that Cobra makes a BAD radio. They just make a inferior one. Save yourself $20.00 and go for the Uniden 68 or 78 instead of the Cobra 25 or 29. You will end up with a better designed and manufactured radio.
Uniden stopping their production of CBs? Not hardly. They will continue to manufacture PC boards and continue to produce their own radio line as long as there is a dollar to be made off of us. But even if Uniden did stop the production of CBs, the company would,t go broke. They are a multibillion dollar industry that makes PC boards for every day use in all kinds of consumer electronic products.
Jeff, kc0gxz. |
sequent
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 10:26 pm: |
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kc0gxz,
You have your facts wrong. Uniden created the President line they didn't buy it. Uniden built the entire radio for Cobra not just the board. Cobra split up with Uniden when Uniden kept bringing more models of the President line into the country and the models were very similar to the Cobra models. Cobra asked Uniden to stop bringing the President line into the country and Uniden refused. Cobra then went to Ranger(Jim Peng) and had him build their radios. These radios were produced in the Philipines and Malaysia not China.
If Uniden wanted to really get back into the market in the USA they would have to allow importing of their 10 meter units. They won't do this because they have to many other things they want FCC approval on to chance souring the relationship with the FCC for such small markets as CB or Ham. You will note that it is difficult to get the President Lincoln in the US this is because Uniden has written every importer that has brought them in to cease and desist or risk legal action.
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2600
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 1:08 am: |
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Hmmm. The "President" product line originated with a company named "American Radio" in Greenwood Indiana. They ended up belonging to Uniden, somehow and the name went with it. Oddly enough, Uniden later bought the "Regency" name and scanner product line, also from an Indianapolis company, and used it here and there on CB radios for a while. The business-radio part of Regency then became "Relm" after they sold the name to Uniden.
Oh, and Cobra went to Mr Peng because he was a lower bidder. When management bought "Cobra" from the parent B&K Corporation, they borrowed a ton of money to do it. They dropped their high-price,high-quality supplier Uniden and cut their costs. Cut the quality, also. That's how corporate buyouts work. Buy a good name and drive it into the ground for all it's worth. Gotta make those loan payments somehow.
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Kc0gxz
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 1:32 am: |
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Sequent.... I stand corrected. At least on some of it. But you sure are right about the 10 meter stuff. Too bad they aren't imported to the US. Uniden has some really nice 10 meter radios today that a lot of people in this country aren't even aware of.
OK. Here we go now. As far as Cobra goes, ALL cobras ARE made in China today. All you have to do is look on the back and you will see in big letters, "MADE IN CHINA". When I said they (Cobra) went to China for manufactoring, I WAS refering to the scenarieo right after the Uniden-Cobra split. (But it looks like I left a whole chapter out of the story.) How could I have possibly forgotten about the Philipino and Malaysian built models? (Maybe it's because I'm so use to seeing just the Chinese models). The Philipinos were some of the best in my opinion. However, I didn't know that Jim "The Ranger" Peng was involved in it. See? You learn something new every day. Thanks for that one Sequent.
So tell me this. When did they split with Jim Peng. Or didn't they? And if they did split, why? Since all Cobras are made in China, is Peng still involved? All I know is that someone in China has a nice juicy contract with Cobra.
Thanks Sequent for correcting me AND your time in this.
Jeff, kc0gxz. |
Crafter
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 - 1:12 pm: |
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Dont be fooled either you can get any radio export or not. Mexico outlets work for me I just have my friend drive from El Paso over and he buys it and ships it to me. Cheaper that way too. |
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