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Happy_Hamer
11-12-2011, 08:10 AM
Uniden has released 3 out of its 4 new models. The SSB model is still pending review.

Our website has made contact with Uniden and they sent us these new models to review.

Here is a teaser picture of the 680 model, better pictures to come with the full review

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N8YX
11-12-2011, 11:05 AM
I really wish someone would re-market a performance-oriented, old-school (double-conversion, crystal filtered) SSB/AM base rig...with an adjustable notch filter, possibly an IF shift and a speech compressor. A built-in frequency counter/clock would be a nice-to-have but not essential.
VE7MGF
11-12-2011, 11:34 AM
why not just re release something like an icom 725 or ts 440 that only works on 11 m with cb spec's
and make it so it can't be modded
kb2vxa
11-12-2011, 01:06 PM
Better yet, a completely potted in epoxy brick with just the little knobbies sticking out.
WØTKX
11-12-2011, 01:45 PM
Only if it comes with a Rebel Flag Faceplate.
NQ6U
11-12-2011, 01:56 PM
Only if it comes with a Rebel Flag Faceplate.

I want one with a hammer and sickle flag faceplate 'cause there's no party like a Communist Party.

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/communistparty.png
Happy_Hamer
11-12-2011, 02:19 PM
http://youtu.be/GLnc6H24mxI
K7SGJ
11-12-2011, 05:16 PM
Golden screwdrivers are standing by.
N5RLR
11-12-2011, 06:19 PM
Ohmigod, a new CB that doesn't look like a Cobra 29XLR/GTL/LTD clone. I'm shocked shitless. :clap:
Happy_Hamer
11-12-2011, 09:03 PM
Uniden is also sending us the new 980 SSB Version to review as soon as the FCC Approves it.

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KG4CGC
11-12-2011, 09:13 PM
OK. Perhaps too close to the mic on the high setting. A bit overmodulated to my ears. That's just my opinion. Not intended to be disparaging.
Happy_Hamer
11-12-2011, 09:25 PM
That is ok, we noticed it as well, the actual audio is a lot clearer on the computer but for some reason the properties change once uploaded.
NQ6U
11-12-2011, 10:39 PM
Only if it comes with a Rebel Flag Faceplate.

http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/smallcommieflagfaceplate.jpg
KG4CGC
11-13-2011, 01:46 AM
http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz79/gyrogeerloose/smallcommieflagfaceplate.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_A7Hu0uKNw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_A7Hu0uKNw
w2amr
11-13-2011, 11:20 AM
http://youtu.be/GLnc6H24mxI:wtf:
Happy_Hamer
11-13-2011, 01:45 PM
seems the audio is better on vimeo?


http://vimeo.com/31994616
KG4CGC
11-13-2011, 01:52 PM
The Youtube version is louder through the computer speakers but that is the only difference I can denote.
W3MPS
11-13-2011, 05:50 PM
The 980SSB looks pretty snazzy. About time somebody came out with a newer side band rig. And I do like the fact that Uniden ditched the classic CB look. Chromed plastic is about as hip as wood grain paneling.
NQ6U
11-13-2011, 06:14 PM
The 980SSB looks pretty snazzy. About time somebody came out with a newer side band rig. And I do like the fact that Uniden ditched the classic CB look. Chromed plastic is about as hip as wood grain paneling.

About as hip as wood grain paneling on the inside of your van. But if you've ever seen the dashboard of a Peterbilt tractor, you'd understand why the CB manufacturers designed their products the way they did.

In any case I don't like this new-fangled CB thing. You can't put a Rebel Flag Faceplate on it.
WØTKX
11-13-2011, 08:28 PM
Kraco Khrome De Luxe!

http://www.partlancer.com/pics/Vintage-Kraco-SSB-Luxe-DeLuxe-CB-Radio-Mobile-12-V.jpg
W7XF
11-13-2011, 11:24 PM
:vomit: :lame:
N8YX
11-14-2011, 10:05 AM
Anyone remember these?
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kc7jty
11-15-2011, 02:44 PM
http://odinn.org/radio/albums/SSB-CB-RADIO/Cobra_148_GTL.jpg
I have one of these in very early vintage and excellent low use condition I modded to cover from 26.17 to 28.09. I should put it onto the 10 meter band.
kc7jty
11-15-2011, 02:52 PM
http://www.qsl.net/kf6foz/transitional/PresidentGrantTransitional.jpg

Have one of these I modded to cover 28.09 down to approx 25.7 where the broadband tx starts to crap out.
kc7jty
11-15-2011, 02:59 PM
http://thehighdesertcobra2000club.webs.com/cobra 2000 gtl).jpg

Got one of these I modded to cover the same freq range as the grant. Watching those needles bounce while working some exotic DX was the cat's meow all righty.
w2amr
11-15-2011, 03:06 PM
http://odinn.org/radio/albums/SSB-CB-RADIO/Cobra_148_GTL.jpg
I have one of these in very early vintage and excellent low use condition I modded to cover from 26.17 to 28.09. I should put it onto the 10 meter band.I like the Brite /Dim operator option.
kc7jty
11-15-2011, 04:15 PM
HaaH! BREAKER... BREAKER!

those switches were always used for the "extras"
KA9MOT
11-15-2011, 11:39 PM
http://thehighdesertcobra2000club.webs.com/cobra 2000 gtl).jpg

Got one of these I modded to cover the same freq range as the grant. Watching those needles bounce while working some exotic DX was the cat's meow all righty.

My dad bought one of these back in 1977 I think. They were brand new and it cost him a fortune. I've always liked the look. When dad brought it home he called my cousin Delvin Jr over and they got to talking quietly among themselves, and the next thing I know old Delvin had the case off it, and was whittling a wooden screwdriver out of a piece of wood (said he couldn't use a metal one inside a radio, dontcha know). An hour passed by and Delvin proudly announced he'd turned it up and it was an illegal radio now.

Damn thing never worked quite right on SSB ...... I s'pose that was Delvin's doing...

I've always liked the looks of that radio. It would be one of the few CBs I would actually own.
kc7jty
11-16-2011, 12:50 AM
I think they debuted a year after that:
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5538029_cobra-gtl-history.html
(http://www.ehow.com/facts_5538029_cobra-gtl-history.html)
I could get the dual clarifier pots to do 5 kc up and down on the course control, and 500 cycles up & down on the fine control. I never knew of anyone else who bothered to do that.
I'd remove the stock 11.325 meg crystal which had a low capacitance loading and replace it with a crystal rated at 30 pf. This eliminated the drifting problem that developed after the clarifier was worked.
KA9MOT
11-16-2011, 01:34 AM
Here was another amazing looking CB! Reckon we could call the Cobra a 2M rig and this one a 4M rig?

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KA9MOT
11-16-2011, 01:42 AM
DUPE!!!! DOH!!!!
kc7jty
11-16-2011, 04:41 AM
It had some toobs innit. Was that a cybernet board?
N8YX
11-17-2011, 05:19 AM
It had some toobs innit. Was that a cybernet board?
Looking at the schematic online, very possible. The Uniden (Cobra/Robyn, etc) SSB boards used a LO crystal in the 11.3 MHz region and the Mark X's appears to be a 10.0525 MHz part. Though the schematic doesn't clearly indicate it, the PLL appears to be an -02. Uniden used a PLL858, MB8719 or 8734 in their various chassis.
n2ize
11-17-2011, 07:09 AM
YIKES!! That radio sounds terrible. :(
KA9MOT
11-17-2011, 03:50 PM
It had some toobs innit. Was that a cybernet board?

I couldn't answer that question.... I thought Cybernet was the outfit that built the machine that killed all the people in The Terminator/Terminator2 and 3.
KA9MOT
11-17-2011, 03:51 PM
YIKES!! That radio sounds terrible. :(

That really has no bearing here because that radio is beautiful............
WØTKX
11-17-2011, 04:46 PM
Somebody should make a very clean SDR CB rig. ;)
kc7jty
11-18-2011, 05:09 AM
pll 02a is cybernet
n2ize
11-21-2011, 04:41 PM
That really has no bearing here because that radio is beautiful............

What's better, a beautiful radio that sounds ugly or an ugly radio that sounds beautiful ?
KA9MOT
11-21-2011, 05:55 PM
What's better, a beautiful radio that sounds ugly or an ugly radio that sounds beautiful ?

Well, it is a CB so I would not be interested in talking on it. I just like the looks...... It would be cool to strip it out and put the boards from a HW-101 in it.... or use the case for a Homebrewed Amp.

I just like the look. I'd put blue LEDs in the meters.
KA9MOT
11-21-2011, 05:56 PM
pll 02a is cybernet

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You sure got a pretty mouth! lol!
ki4itv
11-21-2011, 07:36 PM
:rofl:
N8YX
11-21-2011, 07:55 PM
Try posting THAT on QRZ.
koØm
11-27-2011, 12:43 PM
Here was another amazing looking CB! Reckon we could call the Cobra a 2M rig and this one a 4M rig?

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There were two DAK (David A Kaplin?) radios, the Mark IX which was AM only and, the Mark X was the AM/SSB model. If, you looked inside, what you would find on the AM model was a Royce/Midland radio board lashed up between the front plate and the tube finals. The SSB model was a "higher quality" radio (I use the term loosely); it had the circuit board from a General Electric "Super Base" with the PLL 02 strapped into the huge cabinet with the tube finals.

I don't recall doing any frequency modification as, the owners only cared about one frequency and, as far as the power modification, why bother; there were enough Palomars and Varmint amplifier floating around to keep the owners happy.

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