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Joeybagadonuts
New member
Username: Joeybagadonuts
Post Number: 2
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2005 - 9:54 pm: | 
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When did they stop making these radios? Are the newer ones any less desirable? |
Yankee
Senior Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 1030
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 12:43 am: |
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As far as I can tell the newer Uniden Grant LT is very close to being much the same radio as the Uniden Grant XL, and the older models of the Cobra 148 GTL and the Cobra 2000 GTL and I've also been told that the newer model of the Uniden Madison with the digital clock are also the same mother boards, as far as to when or why the Uniden Grant XL was discontinued I've no idea.
Carl CEF-357 |
Yankee
Senior Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 1031
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 9:53 am: |
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Many Cobra 2000 GTL owners will say there's not a better radio than the Cobra 2000 GTL, but what a lot of them don't know is that all the radios I've mentioned above are all very much the same once the covers are off.
What I'm trying to put across is, the Cobra 2000 GTL is no better than it's brothers and all the mods will work on all of them.
It seems that a few newer radios have also come along, so far and as far as I'm aware of the only radio you can still buy new on the open market that will be the same as the famous Uniden Grant XL is the General Sherman and for those who are not aware,the General Sherman is a mobile radio and the same radio as the first models "pre 1994" of the Cobra 148 GTL and any of the Uniden Grant XLs.
Any Cobra radio made after 1994 is not of Uniden manufacture, that was when China started making radios for Cobra. |
Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 713
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 - 6:41 pm: |
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I just bought a Brand New Grant "XL". Got it last week. Will put it in safe for later use I hope.
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
Yankee
Senior Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 1035
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 10:51 am: |
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Hi Keith,
Congratulations on the blessed event of finding a new Grant XL. I remember you said you were hunting a new one, almost don't what to ask what the price tag was. Some of the prices I've seen on new old stock are out of this world. I've seen some as high as $200.00 new in the box, and worth every cent of the asking price. Nice Christmas gift for yourself.
Enjoy yours, as I have mine with the hard wired FC-347 frequency counter.
Carl CEF-357 |
Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 714
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2005 - 5:36 pm: |
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Try $150 delivered to my door! 
And again, it is an XL!
Keith |
Hollowpoint445
Advanced Member
Username: Hollowpoint445
Post Number: 976
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 4:59 pm: |
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Cool deal. Definitely worth the money. I wish I could come across the sweet deals I've read about others getting an unmolested Grant or Filipino 148 for next to nothing. |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 2141
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 7:39 pm: |
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gotta stay up late, go for the e*auction radios that end 3AM, & hope some %&**# didn't bid 'em up real high too early. LT for UNDER $140 with shipping, NIB, & tape WAS still in place on plastic bag... |
Hollowpoint445
Advanced Member
Username: Hollowpoint445
Post Number: 977
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2005 - 9:11 pm: |
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Good advice Pat - I've been doing that for a while. Lately I've been looking for a parts radio, but they also seem to sell for more than I'm willing to spend.
Good deal on the LT - they don't seem to go for as much as the XLs do. |
Joeybagadonuts
New member
Username: Joeybagadonuts
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2005 - 6:12 am: |
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Found my Extremely Clean Grant XL on ebay. I stayed up very late (for me) to make sure I got it. I got it for $102. By the way my hat's off to COPPER. I ordered my Texas Star 500V on Tuesday morning and it was here yesterday (Thursday) |
