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Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 17097
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, September 05, 2009 - 7:43 am: | 
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OK Guy's & Gal's,
Here is a chance for you to post your ALL TIME #1 FAVORITE VINTAGE / CLASSIC CB Base Radio.
23 or 40 Channel Radio
Please include the following information: 
Do you still Have it?
Do you still Use it?
What are the Feature's that you most Like about it?
Have you added Any Modifications to it?
If you have a Picture of it PLEASE Post / Submit it to the Member's Picture Area of the Copper Forum for other Copper Forum Member's to see.
Lon~Tech808
N9CEF
CEF#808~CVC#002
Radio Enthusiast!
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Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 4643
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 05, 2009 - 10:02 pm: |
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ft101e, has 50 channels on each xtal....times 3, to get you from 26.5-28. not a cb, but really my favorite. i still have it & fire it up on cold winter nights. quite possibly could be considered the first ever 'export cb'. it did everything and went everywhere with 100+ watts back in the 70's thru the early 80's. 700 watts from an fl2100b was easier to acquire, accomplish and sounded better then any 10 tube cb amp. even the sb200 was an easy hookup, and with a PS mod, 2kw was ready to go!
had fun with my d201a, browning mk4a, dak x, even a tram 300 & a couple robyns. the one i should've kept was the tram d201a.
the 1st 23 ch base i ever bought NEW was a sears 23+ssb 12v/110v in 1975, which i still have.....the only 1 of my bases i managed to keep. it was NEVER modded because we couldn't get multiple circuit boards separated to get to the diode to open the clarifier or add a vfo or xtal box to. in the late 80's a friend acquired 1 at a yard sale. we attempted to take it apart and broke the corners of the stack of boards. while it was modifiable, ef johnson did a good job of making it 'un-take-apartable'.
i can name probably 50 bases i've owned over 35 years (probably 250 mobiles), few bases did i ever mod, or have long enough to mod. mobiles were less expensive & easier to get, so we experimented on them with xtal boxes, vfo's & big hammers before hooking them up as a base.
besides my yaesu, i use a factory loaded & fully modified rf limited ar3500 as my cb base, along with my ic706mk2g when it's not in my mobile..... |
Sonny
Intermediate Member
Username: Sonny
Post Number: 197
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, September 06, 2009 - 6:10 pm: |
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Still have my Stoner PRO 40, comes with open clarifier, I use it once in awhile has a wistlestop null control to knock out am signals did modify for extra channels but since have returned it back to stock. Also it has a +/- swr meter that sends a voltage out to a termianl strip for controling a auto matcher  |
Flying_cloud
Member
Username: Flying_cloud
Post Number: 89
Registered: 4-2009
| | Posted on Monday, September 07, 2009 - 12:54 am: |
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sonar fs 2340 I still got it and it needs some mic work but I like it because it is a real cb the kind that glows!! a tube type!!!
Flying High and Flying Proud!!!!!!!!
CEF# 1028
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Radioreddz
Member
Username: Radioreddz
Post Number: 89
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Monday, September 07, 2009 - 3:10 am: |
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23 ch.am & ssb Hygain 623, 23 ch. am only Cobra Cam 88. 40 ch. am & ssb Tram D201A 40ch. am only Gemtronics GTX 5000. I'm just a big tube radio fan |
Sitm
Intermediate Member
Username: Sitm
Post Number: 285
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - 1:54 pm: |
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I wasn't aware the FT101 E was a vintage 23 or 40 channel cb radio. |
Patzerozero
Senior Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 4647
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - 11:33 pm: |
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I wasn't aware the FT101 E was a vintage 23 or 40 channel cb radio-SURE it was! there was probably more of them on CB then the ham bands all through the 70's & early 80's! i'll bet the same is true today! i've used mine on CB for 33 years & probably keyed it on 10m a dozen times. the guy i bought from in 1976 had it for less then 2 years & got yelled at for tvi every time he keyed it, so he sold it to me. can't really ever remember having a tvi problem with it. was always my favorite cb base! |
Ak3383
Member
Username: Ak3383
Post Number: 72
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 - 7:31 pm: |
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For a 40-channel base I would have to say the Realistic TRC-458 is my favorite. No mods.
I have owned it for approx. 15-years now and the only thing I have ever had to touch on the radio are the control knobs on the front. I like to test other radios receive against the 458's via a 3-way selector switch and flipping between 2-other radios and the 458 at the same time same antenna. The TRC-458 has so-far out heard all of them, which have included an original version President Washington, GTL-142, Johnson messenger 223, browning 23/s-nine r2700a, ft-101, robyn 505d, and assorted other mobiles. |
Twowatt
Member
Username: Twowatt
Post Number: 88
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 9:44 pm: |
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My first base/mobile was a Johnson Whiteface, 5 channels; 2nd base was a Johnson Blackface, 10 channels - put the Whiteface mobile. For several years, I used 2 Blackfaces & 1 Whiteface as my 23 channel base (reversed the other 2 crystals *__*), with a Hygain antenna switch. (The Whiteface was an AC only unit - it would key about 25 watts - the Blackfaces would only key in the 12-15 watt range - and one of them was 23 channel receive).
My first 23 channel base was a Cobra Cam 88 - and one of my favorites (have had several more). I also like the Cobra Cam 89, 89XLR, 87GTL (btw, I have talked more skip on the 89XLR & the 87GTL, than any other 40 channel radio I have ever owned), the 135XLR, and of course the 2000.
I've had over 25 Johnsons at one time, and the 223 is my favorite. (I have a few left)
(many more I could mention like my NIB Echo)
The only 'classic' I still talk on, is my Browning Eagle Mark III, with Gold D104 mike. |
Joey_migs
New member
Username: Joey_migs
Post Number: 8
Registered: 9-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 - 3:44 pm: |
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I have owned Radio Shack, Lafayette, Uniden, RCA, and many brands I can't remember. I still love the Cobra 138 XLR and even more with the (PLL) unlocked. Thanks copper that book was worth every cent. I also like the Cobra 29GTL, even though it is AM only, for its built in SWR meter. I own a Cobra XRS 979 radar detector, saved me thousands
Joe |
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