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Grumpy
Intermediate Member
Username: Grumpy
Post Number: 111
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 10:54 am: | 
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first off I'M a uniden freak and just love the radios
president made some great radio as well
I just don't know that much about the president line of radios
I do have a black face president jackson that talks ok
the new radios just don't do it for me I like the older radios it must have 40 ch and ssb
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Starface
Senior Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 1070
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 1:24 pm: |
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Uniden has made some great radios.
I like the Washington I have.
STARFACEİ
KI4NBE
CEF476
HAM181
CVC014
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Radioreddz
Junior Member
Username: Radioreddz
Post Number: 33
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 2:42 pm: |
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in my opinion the Uniden made is the best Washington. great audio a PLL that you can frequency out like crazy and a excellent radio on SSB. infact add a D104 with a 10A head and some think is compairable to a Kenwood on SSB. wattage wise i dead key mine at 3 watts and it swings around 25 watts. on Am i use either a turner super sidekick or D104 with great loud crystal clear audio. yup i don't think you'll would go wrong with the Uniden Washington. |
Grumpy
Intermediate Member
Username: Grumpy
Post Number: 112
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 10:41 pm: |
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ok thanks I LOVE MY GRANT XL BUT NEED A BASE TO GO BY THE BED
THE UNIDEN WASHINGTON WILL FIT THE BILL
I BROKE DOWN AND PICKED UP A PRESIDENT MADISON
THANKS |
Freebird
Advanced Member
Username: Freebird
Post Number: 506
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 29, 2007 - 8:58 pm: |
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i have a uniden washington and its great i like this one over the older president one.also the president hr 2510s were good radios. |
Yankee
Senior Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 1423
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 12:05 am: |
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The older President line of radios with the uPD-858 PLL were very good and were made by Uniden. The older President sideband radios had many modification that could be done. Also the early Cobra line of radios, as well as many other brand names were of Uniden manufacture.
Carl CEF-357
CVC-9 HAM-28
Flatlands of Oklahoma
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Sparkomatic
Intermediate Member
Username: Sparkomatic
Post Number: 419
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 6:42 pm: |
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Uniden/President Madison is the best base radio by those 2. |
Waverider
Member
Username: Waverider
Post Number: 60
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 3:08 pm: |
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Hard to beat the Uniden Washingtons. I have two, one is modified and I have had it since they were first for sale. The other my wife found at a small radio shop in lower Delaware, still new in the box and gave it to me for my birthday last summer. Cool or what! These radios are great SSB preformers and hear well too. EZ freq. expansion if that's what you want to do. I like others on this board when running SSB have been asked what kind of 10 meter rig I was using!!! And for the money they sold for new, what more could ya want?!! Just my 10 cents! Hope you are all are well out there, we have six inces of solid ice here in NE Maryland and it won't go away cause it's so cold. :-(((( |
Onelasttime
Junior Member
Username: Onelasttime
Post Number: 22
Registered: 8-2011
| | Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 7:58 pm: |
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The Uniden Washington is just a Grant XL/Cobra 148 GTL board in a big case with a cheap power supply. So you can get a Grant XL or Cobra 148 GTL and a cheap switching power supply and get the same performance. usually though for some odd reason the base stations can be had cheaper on Ebay then the Grant XL or Cobra 148 GTL made during the same time period.
A lot of President models where made by Uniden off and on over the years just like a lot of Cobra and Realistic models where made by Uniden off and on over the years!
I think the president radio tended to use higher quality parts in some key area's then similar radio's made by Uniden just like the President Lincoln tended to use higher quality parts then the original RCI-2950 in key area's.This is also why they where usually more expensive as well. I suspect those radio's made by Uniden for other companies including Prescient where made specifically to hit a target price point that they could not do on their own it goes to economy of scale!
The weak link in the Washintons was always their power supply once you started peaking the radio you would run out of head room and the power supply would often fail. No radio is perfect every company compromises their design to be able to keep the price with in reason!
I do not think it will matter much really just try to get a clean unit that has not been butchered. If anyone is going to butcher a radio of mine I prefer it be me. I do not trust very many peoples handy work when it comes to radio's. When I see a radio with switch's for extra's on say a PLL 002 I think it is radio I will not even bid on it. Likely that same radio has had it's ALC limiter defeated and any number of other modifications done by someone with no scope, no signal generator etc...... So try to find good working copies that have not been modified!!!
Unless money is the driving factor as in you can steal one off ebay......I think you are better off getting something like an RCI-2950 or Magnum 257 and a 32watt switching power supply. |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 2027
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 - 11:13 am: |
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Since very old threads keep being brought up again...
I'd like to point out that switching type power supplies make their own RF noise. No big deal? When it reduces the sensitivity of your receiver, it's a big deal.
Stick with linear (brute force) supplies until switching supplies can be built without RF hash.
Some have begun making switching power supplies that specifically avoid popular ham bands for their noise output. Still not a good solution.
Your radio 'Mythbuster' since 1998
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