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RugRat235 · #1 01-10-2006, 10:45 AM

i emailed cobra to see if they would let loose any info about the posibility of a base model and this was their reply. anyone who thinks its a good idea should send an email to the link below maybe we can talk them into it.

Hello,,

Thank you for you e-mail. Currently we do not have any information on
this going to take place as yet. But if you heard something about
it.... Well, it just may happan. :-) So keep in touch with us.

Thank you,
rabele@cobra.com

Devildog · #2 01-10-2006, 03:32 PM

I for 1 would buy the 200 in a base model

DTB Radio · #3 01-11-2006, 09:05 AM

OK, I'll make one. Shouldn't be too hard, just build a case and stick a big power supply in it, lol!

Harvester · #4 01-11-2006, 10:29 AM

I hope it will be as good or better than the 2000 . I liked the 2000 .

Don't see why they stopped making the radio, why do they do that?

NorthStar · #5 01-11-2006, 11:11 AM

DTB,

Looks like a good weekend project for ya. I will be waiting on pics hehe.

DTB Radio · #6 01-11-2006, 07:38 PM

I did that once with the circuit board from an old 148 that someone had run over and junked. I got bored, tracked down about 30+ problems in the old girl, then took the board and some controls out of the original 148 chassis, and planted them into an old Royce 23-channel 3-meter base chassis. I now have a great 40+ channel SSB rig with full-time S/RF, CAL, and SWR readouts with no meter switching needed.

I may just get bored one weekend and take a 200 and make a base out of it....

King Mudduck · #7 01-11-2006, 08:24 PM

Now dont you start teasing these guys!

RugRat235 · #8 01-12-2006, 09:48 AM

shoulda hung on to it i bet it would get a good price on ebay. i saw one of those dak mark somethingarathers that someone had put a uniden somethingarather board in go for a for big bucks.

DTB Radio · #9 01-12-2006, 08:23 PM

Oh, I've still got it. I dont sell things like that (unless someone offers me a new Porche or something for it). Its at my folks place for the moment.

This reminds me of another base station story. About 10 years ago, give or take, I was working for another shop. A customer came in on evening, and said he had a Cobra 142 that didn't work. He set a shopping bag on the counter, and said the radio was in there. He then set another 3 or 4 shopping bags on the counter, and said the radio was in those, too. Turns out his wife took a 5-pound sledge hammer to his 142 because he was on it more than he was on her, and turned it into the mother of all jigsaw puzzles. Needless to say, we told him it probably wouldn't be worth the many many man-hours needed to rebuild his radio out of the various bits and pieces in the bags. He elected to just leave the bags there, and bought himself another radio.

Well, one evening several months later, I got bored and decided to rebuild the thing. It didn't take the hundred hours I thought it would. It DID take a ton of solder and little solid-wire (component lead clippings) jumpers to finally get the circuit board back together, and a bit of time with a hammer and anvil to get the chassis frame straightened out enough to fit the board back in it, but it managed to go back together. Luckily, We had an old 139 case cover lying about, and I was able to make it sort of fit the 142 frame. After getting that all together, and replacing a few physically damaged parts on the board, I fired it up, and I'll be darned if it didn't work like it was new. I didn't even have to align it, it was already on frequency.

I still have that old rig sitting in my shop....

TonyV225 · #10 11-06-2009, 03:17 PM

LMAO!! NOW THATS LITERALLY BRINGING A RADIO BACK FROM THE DEAD OR IS IT MORE LIKE GRAVE ROBBING?? Either way its still funny.

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