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Great_lakes
New member
Username: Great_lakes
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 - 6:43 pm: | 
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How good is the "new" 148 GTL Cobra.?
Does it compare at all to the origional series? |
Bc910
Intermediate Member
Username: Bc910
Post Number: 403
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 4:52 pm: |
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Not in my opinion.
I would get a new uniden grant (they still make 'em right?) Any way, as long as they still do, that's what I would get if that is the kind of radio I wanted. Otherwise I would go with the Magnum S9 if I wanted an export.
BC |
Troublemaker
Intermediate Member
Username: Troublemaker
Post Number: 100
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 5:46 pm: |
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the new 148 is great to me, after going all through the Galaxy line, I settled on the 148 because it has the best receive, use it every day in my work van with a palomar 250 & the Wilson 1000,mag.mount. a great skip shooter!!! |
Bc910
Intermediate Member
Username: Bc910
Post Number: 406
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 7:18 pm: |
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Don't get me wrong the 148 is great, it just doesn't seem to be built as well as they used to be. Again, that's just my opinion. I do have to agree with you Troublemaker, Galaxy just dont do it for me either.
BC |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 526
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 04, 2005 - 5:32 pm: |
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the local cb shop here sells the newer 148's for
$279.99. there are truckers around here buying them from there, too.
when you stop laughing, i did put a road devil on 1 last fall. it still works fine, mic & radio. driver is happy with it & just asked me to get him a dx350 for it. SO, when i hook it up for him, i'll get to look inside a brand new texas star dx350 & i'll take a look & listen at the 148, too. |
Bc910
Intermediate Member
Username: Bc910
Post Number: 413
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 1:13 am: |
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Hey Truck drivers make the world go 'round but no one ever said that they are all the smartest cookies! Some are, but $279.00 for a 148!!! That's just funny!
BC |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 534
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 9:14 am: |
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if i remember correctly the cobra 29 was $209, a galaxy 99 was over $400, & 1 of those cheapie 2-1446 amps that you can get for about $100 was $199. oh yeah-a returned 6900ftb was $499 ONLY because it was SLIGHTLY used. it was returned because the trucker didn't think it was loud enough. for $499 it was modded though.
i suppose they could always get ripped off by 1 of those internet only radio stores...
and before anybody says it-
"THEY SHOULDA TRIED COPPER-HOME OF THE CEF" |
Hotwire
Intermediate Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 152
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 05, 2005 - 11:41 am: |
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I agree with Bc! $279.00 for a 148 is robbery. I got mine 100 bucks cheaper. Correct they arent as good as they used to be. I had mine rebuilt. 33 componets swapped out for superior ones. Now I have a 148 in my mobile that can hang with the big dogs. Use one of them cheapy amps no prob. Skip contacts by the dozen! |
Kid_vicious
Intermediate Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 269
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 07, 2005 - 11:25 pm: |
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hotwire, i sur would like to know which 33 parts were changed out. do you have any part numbers?
matt |
Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 409
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 7:37 pm: |
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About a week and a half ago I was in a trucker CB shop on the interstate about 20 miles south of me and what did I see in the showcase? A Magnum S-9 priced at $450.00 and the truckers that don't know the right price will pay what this guy wants. He gets a minimum of $50.00 also $50.00 an hour, for any work he does. And to install antennas on an 18 wheeler he gets $100.00 for each antenna installed, plus the price of the antenna, coax and mount. I was only there looking around and he didn't get my money. Talk about rip offs. |
Hotwire
Intermediate Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 171
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 8:32 am: |
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Hey matt I do not know the part numbers. Some people have never heard of this but I can tell a major difference in my recieve. As for transmit, its very loud and clean clear audio. I get unsolicited flowers all the time. I have really no noise from my car and the white noise level is very low. I hear distant stations with ease. |
Kid_vicious
Intermediate Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 276
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - 4:42 pm: |
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hotwire, was your 148 done by a guy named justin?
matt |
Syklopz
New member
Username: Syklopz
Post Number: 9
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 2:05 pm: |
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279.00!!!! WOW. I can get one local for at least a hundred cheaper new and about almost two hundred less used and tuned. |
Snowfire
Member
Username: Snowfire
Post Number: 80
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 22, 2005 - 1:20 am: |
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148 around here go for $150.
I think that is about right. |
Yankee
Advanced Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 573
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 22, 2005 - 2:39 pm: |
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Great Lakes: In answer to your post of 03/02/05. No the new Cobra 148 GTL is nothing like the first models. The first models were made in the Philippines and Malaysia by Uniden for Cobra, were top of the line, same radio as the Uniden Grant XL. The new Cobra 148 GTL is made in China.
The best laugh I got was when I looked up the new Cobra 148 GTL the add said the Cobra 148 GTL is back, (I don't think so) the new Cobra 148 GTL is not Uniden made.
BC-910: In answer to your post of 03/03/05, no Uniden is no longer making the Grant radios, The last model that Uniden did make was the Grant LT.
Snowfire: I would make sure that those for $150.00 are not the ones made in China.
Another thing guys and gals. As of maybe two years ago Uniden radios are no longer being made in the Philippines or Malaysia. So buyer be informed. |
