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badwhiskey
| | Posted on Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 4:34 pm: | 
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I just purchased one of these through e-bay, only 50 or made....does anyone know about this radio? |
2600
| | Posted on Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 4:13 am: |
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They made more than 50, or I wouldn't have sold any back in 1978. It was made by Toshiba. Had a (then) high-tech double-sided circuit board. That permitted packing more parts in a smaller radio. Downside is that removing a component lead is tricky to do without accidentally removing the metal sleeve inside the circuit-board hole. The receiver was better than average for a 1978 AM-only radio, and they sounded pretty good with the right mike.
Toshiba built and sold it to Cobra. Toshiba was the supplier for Cobra's high-price 23-channel SSB radios, the 135 and 132. They also supplied all the Tram solid-state mobiles, and a couple of the ones that Browning sold. The PLL chip is an early "unlocked" type that can be expanded with just switches, resistors and diodes. If any of the controls, chips, tuneable coils, channel selector and such go bad, it's junkyard time. Toshiba got out of the business of producing CB radios twenty-plus years back. Original replacement parts have all gone to the landfill long ago.
73 |
badwhiskey
| | Posted on Sunday, January 19, 2003 - 9:32 pm: |
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what I meant was I bought one that is still in the box.....one of the first 50 made. I can tell from the comments you made that this radio is junk if something fails on it...thats a shame!!! |
badwhiskey
| | Posted on Sunday, January 26, 2003 - 11:09 am: |
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Is there any way the Cobra 32 can be fixed with modern-day componants? |
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