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Supernuker
Junior Member
Username: Supernuker
Post Number: 15
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 - 4:34 pm: | 
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I've heard all the stories about the rigs people love (Trams, Brownings, Cobras, etc) but what about the worst piece of junk ever. The kind you use and abuse and contacts say it sounds like turd farts under water. The radios you could throw further than transmit on.
For me it was the first radio I ever owned - a Midland 13-862B. The covers were made out of plastic. It was manufactured in May 1976 when they made everything out of gunmetal. You'd think Midland could have done a little better. To boot I think it dead keyed around 1 watt max with negative swing. I still have the piece of junk, maybe I'll post a photo of this sorry radio... or maybe I'll tune it up and try it again. 
CEF#459 |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1934
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 - 5:34 pm: |
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midland 77-115, its is total junk unstable i gave up on fixing mine. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1936
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 - 5:50 pm: |
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Worst buy in radios ( other than a midland )
This is my own opinion but with all the GOOD radios out there here goes .....
1) any 23 ch set ( just not worth the trouble )
2) any out of country non FCC aproved set such as the english FM radios being sold on e-bay.
3) Tube radios from the 60's like HE-20's
( except as colectables )
4) Any hygain cybernet chassies except for converting for 10 meters |
That ELCO Guy (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 - 6:19 pm: |
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Easy one...
Siltronix 1011 C
Drifted all over the dang place. About as stable as a feather in a tornado. |
Unit199
Member
Username: Unit199
Post Number: 68
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 - 7:19 pm: |
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The worst radio I have ever owned and I still have, is a Cobra 148F, boy what a piece of junk. It spent more time traveling than it did on the air.
Semper Fi!!!
Harve |
Coyote
Junior Member
Username: Coyote
Post Number: 45
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 - 7:44 pm: |
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The biggest piece of junk I have ever owned was a Cobra 18 WXST. NOW that is a piece of junk. Can't even tune them i dont think and dont think its capable of transmitting more than 2 watts. A big don't buy radio. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1938
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 - 8:25 pm: |
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ELCO thats a HAM radio ...... right!
Siltronix 1011 was almost as bad as the Swan 250
AKA 2 DRIFTY! |
Bob_p
Advanced Member
Username: Bob_p
Post Number: 600
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, December 24, 2004 - 9:50 pm: |
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Either a Kraco 23 channel AM, or a Lake 23 channel AM radio. The lake was really cheap, and cheap looking, but while the Kraco that you could buy at K-Mart looked better but was still a load  I never owned either, but knew people who had these radios, and particularly the Lake was just plain BAD! |
Road_warrior
Intermediate Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 228
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 9:25 am: |
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My first base was a 23 channel Midland, clock,
wood top, can't remember model #./Piece of
JUNK! / My second base was a 23 channel Cobra
139 SSB base./ JUNK!
JIM/CENTRAL PA/CEF 375
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That Elco guy (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 9:52 am: |
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RE Bruce from ELCO...
Hi. I hope ya had a good Dec 25th.
From the box yes it is a 10 M radio but my buddy had one, his wife was a great cook so I spent a lot of time over there grabbin some grub. He had a 1011 C that was converted down to CB Frequencies.
BUT you had to keep ridding the dang thing because it drifted above and below where it indicated constantly. SSB was a witch to operate.
I never had a Swan but I will take your word. More than one person has told me that Swans were pathetic.
Later
That OL ELCO Guy
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Bob_p
Advanced Member
Username: Bob_p
Post Number: 604
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 10:18 am: |
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Supernuker just curious, was that the space age looking white Midland radio base station? I remember they had a very space age looking base station that was kind of small, but it was an AM only radio I believe.
73
Bob |
Legend
Member
Username: Legend
Post Number: 75
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 11:23 am: |
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The realistic "Tele-radio" base station.
I can't remember the model number, but it was the one with the telephone handset.
Yeeeshh! |
Matt1955
Junior Member
Username: Matt1955
Post Number: 20
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 4:17 pm: |
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For me it was the K-40! It was billed as the best and smallest! What garbage that was! It spent more time in the shop! And the Mic was total trash as well! Next it would be any GE radio! |
Racer X (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 6:34 pm: |
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I never cared for the GM Delco AM/FM/CBs although for what they were I guess they weren't too bad, and every Cybernet SSB chassis I've used has had poor adjacent channel rejection compared to a Uniden chassis.
But all-in-all I'd say the worst radio I ever used was a Galaxy DX88HL. It drifted so much it's unusable on SSB and the audio amplifier went bad. Exports in general have been disappointing compared to a 7.8 MHz Uniden SSB rig. |
Rover
Member
Username: Rover
Post Number: 56
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 7:50 pm: |
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Swan/Siltronics had a reputation for "drifting". However, the rap was somewhat undeserved. In fact, truth be known, most ALL tube radios drifted, but people after the 70s became so used to turn-it-on-and-start-yappin', they forgot how to use tube rigs.
Sure Swans and et al would drift, but the secret was to turn the thing about 30 minutes before using it and go on about your business for a bit until the filaments warmed up. Then you could tune the thing to frequency and talk away. I had a Swan 700CX that would drift IF you didn't warm up the filaments. Let it sit for awhile, and I never had to retune it. |
Road_warrior
Intermediate Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 229
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, December 26, 2004 - 9:57 pm: |
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OH yeah, speaking of Galaxy, i had a Galaxy Saturn base years ago./ Junk! Drifted like crazy./
But, my first Midland was worse.
1. Midland Base AM
2. Saturn Galaxy SSB
3. Cobra 139 SSB |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1943
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 6:37 am: |
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Rover ..
My station was a R4B, T4xb Drake it drifted less that 100 cps. The collins "S" line and the Halicrafters HT-37 and ELDICO ( collins clone ) radios were just as stable with very short warm ups. SWAN was and is JUNK a sad cheap radio that even for its day was laugh at by CW and SSB users.
The Swan 250 on 6 meters was so sad that the owners were constanly telling others that " YOUR DRIFTING " and even in the mid 70's were called the 2 DRIFTYS very sad radios. |
Ill41
New member
Username: Ill41
Post Number: 9
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 9:47 am: |
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Royce
Siltronics 1011d
Midland
Johnson 250 |
Rover
Member
Username: Rover
Post Number: 57
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 12:57 pm: |
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Well, Bruce, I had several Swans of all descriptions and, while they weren't my favorite radios, I found that they would usually stabilize if you turned them on about a half hour before you started to use it. I used to participate in a CAP net above the 75 Meter band. I never had too much trouble with them drifting. For their time, they packed a pretty good wallop if you knew how to tune and load them. Those old 8950s were finicky, but I ran one of my old Swans at around 550 watts output barefooted. That was when it was new. Eventually it settled down to around 450 watts out and stayed there until I wore the tubes out. This was a Swan 700 CX
I was never all *that* fond of Swans, but they were simple to work on, and actually were fairly reliable if you knew what you were doing. I had one fella to mess me up when I went to sell my last 700 CX. The 8950 finals were going flat and replacements were getting scarce, so I ordered a new matched pair of 8950s from RF Parts, neutralized them, aligned and cleaned it up, then took it to a hamfest. The night before, I talked all over the place on 40 and 75 Meters to see it worked right and it did. It sold pretty quickly for $275 as it looked new, no scratches or dents. Not long after,the buyer came back saying it didn't work and accusing me of selling him a bad radio. I protested that it did work because I knew that it DID, but I gave him his money back. I questioned him about what they did.
He said they took it inside to a plug in, turned it on (used a piece of wire for an 'antenna') and tuned, and tuned with the transmitter KEYED!!! I got mad and told him, "Here's your money back, BUT DON'T EVER EVEN APPROACH MY TABLE AGAIN!!! YOU ACCUSE ME OF SELLING JUNK, WHEN YOU CALL YOURSELF A "HAM", AND YOU ARE TOO GOOFY TO KNOW THAT YOU DON'T KEY A RADIO WITH NO ANTENNA AND KEEP IT KEYED. YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO BE ALLOWED TO BE NEAR A TRANSMITTER!"
LOL! Well, Ok, I WAS mad. I mean, here's these guys that were nothing more than appliance users and they just burned out $80.00 worth of matched finals and some resistors.
To many folks, Swans were jokes, that's true. I am not one of its defenders (they DID have their defenders), but they were, well, sort of OK. I have two of Don Johnson's later products--Atlas 350XL. Now they were expensive in their day, also finicky, and mine need its bias adjusted (if I ever get around to it). Neat radio tho.
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Jon666
Intermediate Member
Username: Jon666
Post Number: 317
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 4:26 pm: |
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definitly
my 1011 charlie
drifted like a sailboat
you had to keep one hand on the mic
the other hand on the vfo
jon |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1947
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 7:17 pm: |
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ROVER
75 meters ???????
go on 10 and run 24 hours without retuning.
As for there time my drake line was bought in early 1970 and i had it about 4 years. it was stable even on 10 meters even at 500 hz on cw rock solid. For a short time i had a 80-10 swan if i remember it was a 350 you put it on 10 meters and even after 1 hour you could detect drift. in fact the guy i sold it to told me it was almost useless ..... and he was not happy with it reselling it in short order...... now it was cheep REALY cheep so he lost nothing. |
Supernuker
Junior Member
Username: Supernuker
Post Number: 17
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, December 27, 2004 - 11:21 pm: |
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Bob_p: No it wasn't the white space age radio...it was much worse than that. My radio was a mobile, 23ch, and that was about it. It has a small meter on top next to the channel indicator and a CB/PA switch. The only other feature it had was a squelch control. It really didn't matter though because my friends were all down the street. I was using a mobile bottom loaded antenna without the mount - I rigged it up some such way with the cable and mounted it on the peak of the roof of our house. That was good for about a four block radius. I remember powering the radio in my house with my Dad's car battery charger. What a racket that made, awful hum. Those were the days. I was just about 14 years old and I had zero money. But I was "On the Air"! |
Texan (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - 11:39 pm: |
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I would have to say the Cobra 2010WX And the Galaxy DX2547 The board used in the 2547 has one of the dirtiest recievers ever made. |
Troublemaker
Junior Member
Username: Troublemaker
Post Number: 49
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 8:40 pm: |
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hmmm, I don't believe I would've went there. |
Tech291
Moderator
Username: Tech291
Post Number: 26
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 9:48 pm: |
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This thread has been running for a week now and I really dont have an answer.there are different things about alot of different radios that i disliked but cant really pin one radio down as the worst.while i may have had issues with my 2547,i would by no means classify it as even bad let alone worst.maybe i'll recall one that i hated,till then....?
and i also had a siltronix 1011d comanchee and for what it was wouldnt put it in this catagory.it must have been the one and only good one they built,because i had no complaints with it either. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 1963
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 31, 2004 - 9:45 am: |
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The 1011 radio was never accepted as a true ham radio even if it was marketed as one. You should have had the chance to hear one next to a DRAKE R4-B like i did ..... along with that swan 350 that i had back then. You turn them all on put them on 10 meters tune in a SSB station and watch 2 of the 3 drift ....... HINT ...... it wasn't the drake. I had a collins 75A2 built in the late 1940's that was more stable that a 1011 in fact i used it with a ht-37 for years ..... not to shabby. Swan and siltronix were and are JUNK if you need a old radio go get a TR-4 or a ft-747..... nice little sets. |
Sitm
Intermediate Member
Username: Sitm
Post Number: 168
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 11:35 am: |
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I don't understand how these post get taken over by ham radio responses.
The question was Worst CB radio....."CB" |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 4566
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 4:19 pm: |
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Well, I guess I am like Tech291 as I have really never found a Bad Radio over the years.
Some have been fair to good radios and some have been great radios.
Some have been bare bone AM Crystal radios and some have had all of the bells and whistles in them.
After a good tuneup and alignment, I have always been happy with the performance of them until something better came along.
Heck, back in 1962 I was HAPPY with the 1st crystal radio I made. 
And IT WORKED. 
The worse one to work on and keep operating good was a Siltronix 1011D.
It was like me, it had Good days and Bad days.
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
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Radioman123
Junior Member
Username: Radioman123
Post Number: 13
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 4:29 pm: |
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I agree with Lon all had their merits. Some indeed better than others. BTW I looked at the time on Lon's post. Is it eastern time or what? The post says 4:19 and it's only 3:25 central...Just curious
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Gary Goodwin (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 7:05 pm: |
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HEY guy's..I have this old 151m midland and I was wondering if it would be worth me putting a power mic and about a 200 watt amp on this thing and try talking skip also if you think this setup would work in a "98" buick lasabre. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2105
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 8:11 pm: |
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Sitm
The question was worst CB radio ever made YET many think of the 1011D as a CB set. In that case it's not only a pile of junk ..... but it would have FAILED part 19 and 95 type acceptance ...... making it THE ONLY radio ever to do that.
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Texan (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 12:37 am: |
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You got that right Bruce.
Had one. Got rid of it. Although calling it "junk" is being nice in my opinion. |
Topten
Intermediate Member
Username: Topten
Post Number: 189
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 10:33 am: |
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Mobile Galaxy II from the mid 80's, it hissed like a snake constantly from the speaker. Stick a fork in me cause I'm done with Galaxy radios. |
Texan (Unregistered Guest)
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I don't blame you Topten. Some people might disagree with me, and thats fine. But I've never had a Galaxy radio that didn't have a problem of some sort. Galaxy has their boards made by Ranger. (Hint-Hint) My brother and me both bought base radios recently. I purchased a Texas ranger 696F-SSB Base, He bought the DX2547. Same board in both. Brand new out of factory sealed boxes, they both had their troubles. The Talkback on his would work for a few minutes then cut out and pop constantly, 1 week later, the freq counter went splat on him. My 696F-SSB had it's troubles as well. 2 of the freq counter digits didn't work out of the box, And when I turned the switch from DIM to BRIGHT the entire radio went lights out. Had power, but no lights. This kinda stuff should NEVER leave the factory this way. Quality Control should have caught these problems. But, thats what you get when companies go overseas to build a cheaper product that they can make higher profit on. Oh, and by the way, Don't even try to get a hold of Ranger anymore on the phone either. It's all automated now, telling you to write them an E-mail on anything now. Good luck with that. Been waiting about three weeks to hear from them. Three E-mails later, still waiting. The 2547 and the 696F have some of the worst recievers in the industry I have ever seen. These radios have the potential to be big winners. However, the quality control issue needs to be addressed bigtime. I and my Brother will NEVER buy another Galaxy or Ranger product again. If you folks like them and have good luck with them, great for you. I won't criticise you for it. But our luck with them hasn't been good. I'm going to try to find myself a good old Cobra 2000. I think they were great radios in their time. Thats of course when Cobra was still with Uniden. Uniden has always been a darn fine radio. Good day to you all. |
Chad
Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 91
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 9:12 am: |
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My DX2547 has been great! Not one problem and gets everyday use. |
Texan (Unregistered Guest)
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I'm glad yours works great for you Chad. But we haven't had good luck at all. I'm not telling anyone not to buy these products by the way. If your thrilled with them, great. By all means buy them. But I just don't feel like I'm willing to pay $300+ dollars for one, then have to pay for an alignment Etc. on any radio. I must say however, Galaxy was good enough though to offer free shipping BOTH ways to my brother to have the DX2547 repaired FREE OF CHARGE. He will be taking them up on that offer as the radio has now died all together. As for the 696F-SSB? I'm still waiting........ Ranger has NOT returned any communication on it. So, in my opinion At least Galaxy had the common decency to at least stand by their radio with a warranty. To me, thats at least 1 plus in their favor. More than I can say for Ranger at this point. Again, have a great day to all. |
1011duder (Unregistered Guest)
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1011d JUNK??? I Love my 1011!! Works good and is really loud!! I leave mine on all the time and the drift is very small after a short time. I have talked to 150 countries(not counties) on my 1011. When my Ranger 2995DX wont do the job my 1011d does.
I also have a 1011c that does a fine job also. If anyone wants to get rid of your 1011 c/d send me email I will take them. |
Road_warrior
Intermediate Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 265
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 8:53 pm: |
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I once owned a Uniden Washington Base, it
talked & recieved so well, that i ordered
another one for a spare./ Well, second one
was a real LEMON, talked ok, but, was terrible
on recieve & bleedover./ Had it tuned twice,
didn't improve anything, so, i sold that
sucka as junk./ Guess you can get a lemon
in about everything you buy./
JIM/CENTRAL PA/CEF 375 |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2115
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 11:07 pm: |
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READ MY POST THE 1011 is JUNK.
If it had been a good radio everyone on 10 meters would have owned one. |
Pig040
Advanced Member
Username: Pig040
Post Number: 644
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 10:11 am: |
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How can you say that Bruce, with a 1011, even if there was no one on the radio, you always had something to do, trying to adjust it back to the frequency!
Rich |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2117
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 12:24 pm: |
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PIG .......
Just what we need a radio that goes all 40 .... by drifting there. |
Patzerozero
Intermediate Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 356
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2005 - 12:00 am: |
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ah yes galaxy...i mean oh NO galaxy. 1st was a galaxy II, worked so good every time i got it fixed that i bought a pluto. now the pluto actually only 'broke' once in several years of ownership. tossing it out the window did not resolve the problem. replaced it with a dx88 that had a locked fine clarifier, no coarse clarifier and all attempts at unlocking that versions clarifier only brought about other problems. needless to say, as awesome sounding as a galaxy can be made, NEVER AGAIN!!! that and those noisy receivers. |
Texan (Unregistered Guest)
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Just to be fair now on this,
I know a few people in town that have Pluto's. Have heard a few good things about that radio. But never having used one myself, I can't say anything good or bad about the product unless I actually have used it. BTW, Galaxy told my brother that part of the problem with his DX2547's freq counter "could" be the VC1 trimmer pot on the freq counter board itself. They said the trimmers that are used are junk and often the techs see "Brand new" radios out of the box with trimmer pots that are broken and can't be adjusted and stuff. They can short out causing the board to go down. So, until they check the radio, we won't know for sure. But it's a possibility. He sent the radio out to Galaxy this morning. Will be a few days before they get it. They didn't have an idea as to why it died though. Said they couldn't diagnose it over the phone because there were to many things that could go wrong to cause that problem. So, I must admit, Galaxy has been FANTASTIC as far as their warranty is concerned. They have done everything they promised as far as shipping etc. |
Bc910
Intermediate Member
Username: Bc910
Post Number: 247
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 - 9:21 pm: |
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You know something is wrong when GALAXY tells you that the parts THEY install in their GALAXY radios are JUNK! Hmmmmm? Honest, yet cheap, well 1 outa 2 aint bad is it? Well yeah I guess it is
BC |
Texan (Unregistered Guest)
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WEll Bc910. They don't actually build their own boards. He told me they get the boards from Ranger Communications. The same folks that make the RCI/Texas Ranger boards. The frequency counter and the Channel tuning knob are identical to the 696F-SSB Base. He said the freq counter board was a board he felt Ranger could have done a bit better in the design. But that Ranger has used that board for a long time. He made the comment to me that Ranger will be using a different board in the future. But for now, they will continue with this board since they have a stockpile of them. Anyway, we just hope the radio can be fixed. The Tech did say that the re-furbed radios or repaired I should say are in his opinion a better radio than out of the box. He says they do a complete alignment and check everything top to bottom. And if they even have a sneaky suspicion that there might be a potential problem with a radio part, they fix it and make sure it works completely before the customer gets it back. He states that the factory just "Ballparks everything" Where as the techs make sure it is all 100% perfect. So, we will see when my brother gets it back. Here's hoping for the best because my brother fell in love with the radios looks and it's size, and the fact that it can go base or mobile with it's dual power capability. I must admit, it is a great looking radio. But I kinda fell for the 696F-SSB myself because I like the big radio look with the side handles plus the bigger knobs that are more spaced out. It just "grabbed" my eye. Have a good day to all. Be back later |
Hotwire
New member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 9
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 12:33 pm: |
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Two words. SEARS ROADTALKER |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2157
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 3:16 pm: |
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I LOVE my roadtalker it gave me many hours of repair time .......realy not THAT bad a radio. |
Troublemaker
Member
Username: Troublemaker
Post Number: 74
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 31, 2005 - 5:53 pm: |
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G A L A X Y 'S......hahahahehehehe |
Hotwire
Junior Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 14
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2005 - 6:55 am: |
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Sorry Bruce! Guess radios are like a box of chocolates. Never know what your gonna get. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 2162
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2005 - 9:34 am: |
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Hotwire ....
I WORKED FOR SEARS (73-77) in repair.....
And i still have one roadtalker.
Now is you said SILTRONICS well ........ |
Hotwire
Junior Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 16
Registered: 1-2005
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Never fortunate enough to own any Siltronics. I will steer clear of them. Yesterday I found an old Cobra Cam 88 Base. I think all I need to do to it is put a new switch in where in says dynatalk. What do you think about that radio? Its really clean inside. Oh yeah! Wanna buy a roadtalker? I have 2 of them!lol Have a good day Bruce! |
Racer X (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Tuesday, February 01, 2005 - 4:16 pm: |
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I've got a Sears Roadtalker SSB base and it's a good radio. I like the slide controls for volume, tone, squelch, RF gain, and fine tuning. The general layout is cool too. It's a great base. |
Kd4amg
Intermediate Member
Username: Kd4amg
Post Number: 149
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 04, 2005 - 12:18 pm: |
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cobra 19 PLUS...really any of the COBRA "PLUS " series of cb rigs, also early 40 channel models of REALISTIC mobiles ( late 1970 s ), lousy noise blankers and hardly any good channel rejection ( of course there were more cb ops back then than there are now, also !! )
BEST rigs for noise rejection ( spark plug, fuel pump,alternator, etc ) MIDLAND 151 and MIDLAND 250; man you flip the ANL or NB on, the noise disappears, and s - meter doesnt show any noise either ( unless skip is in ).
One thing I cant figure out about some of the COBRA rigs made now, the 25 & 29, for example..is... turn the RF GAIN down from wide open ( 5 o clock level ) down to HIGH NOON ( 12 o clock level ) about 95 % of the reciever goes quiet, with hardly any difference between 12 noon position back to 7 o clock position ( extremeleft ). HAs any one else experienced this or was this just 2 of 100,000 that did that ?
But back to the topic at this thread, worst rigs were the cobra PLUS series |
Sparkomatic
Intermediate Member
Username: Sparkomatic
Post Number: 434
Registered: 10-2002
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Anything made in China is the worst.
Worst Export radio would have to be a tie.....President Jackson and the Texas Star from the 1980s.
Politicians spend other people's money like drunken sailor's!
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Ghosttalker
New member
Username: Ghosttalker
Post Number: 1
Registered: 7-2019
| | Posted on Saturday, October 19, 2024 - 7:24 am: |
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I have a Galaxy 2547 which would drift and the bfo was hard to tune. So I looked at the circuit diagram to see why this might be the case. I thought about what I might have to do, to remedy this. Then I decided that I ought to check the clarifier potentiometer first of all to eliminate this as the problem. By spraying WD40 into it and swiping it back on forth on the knob to clean and lubricate it, I resolved the problem. Hence it was dirty as best as I could make out. After the radio is warmed up and stable, it sits on frequency as it should. Otherwise, I was thinking about using temperature stable resistors and capacitors in the BFO circuit. Because of my thinking to clean the clarifier potentiometer I save myself some work which was not required.
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