nostalgic radio i found in a box at my shop today with 2 channel selector knobs

[wheelman918]

an old sbe coronado 2 would this trans and rec on different freqs?View attachment 14789

 

[wheelman918]

an old sbe coronado 2 would this trans and rec on different freqs?View attachment 14789

 

[midnight special]

if i remember right the switch between the selectors decided whether split or together,,, i liked the sbe that came out at the same time as this one ,, it had a vhf band monitor built in besides the cb band,,, talk on cb and listen to the police at same time....

 

[Atlasta]

I think that this was an early attempt at a radio that could monitor one frequency while transmitting on another. Interesting concept but not a real big seller.

 

[w9cll]

Reminds me of this.

 

[AudioShockwav]

The CPI rigs were ahead of their time, palomar engineers were on a roll back then.

73
Jeff

 

[Atlasta]

The Palomar rig was basically the prototype for the CPI 300. IIRC the engineers from Swan and Palomar split off to form CPI. It was a hell of a radio!

 

[mechanic]

The two channels knobs were more or less BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) switches to program the PLL frequency synthesizer. The FCC did not like these much as they covered too many frequencies and 'in-betweens'! I miss my CPI....

73 mechanic

 

[357]

grab it before I do
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Estate-Fin...h=item36463f0d44:g:K30AAOSwdaVcSMK-:rk:1:pf:0