New Radio from Ranger

[AmericanEagle575]

Good evening, was visiting the Walcott site and I saw this, interesting that this reminds me of the Galaxy 2547 CB radio, wonder if Ranger is moving away from the Big Black Base style and going for more compact and the Price seems decent enough,just wondering what board will be in it..i/e Ranger 2950,2995,etc......will have to see how it preforms once someone gets the hands on one!!!
73's

 

[dave457]

$600....lol

 

[AudioShockwav]

I am sure your right, it's likely just another 69xx board in a galaxy case.
I don't understand why they dropped the RHF 618 case style over that one, if they kept that style, dressed it up a bit and stuck a waterfall display in it with NR/DSP they would have something really new.

73
Jeff

 

[sp5it]

599? Is someone dumb enough to buy that junk?

 

[BC Coyote]

$805.00 Canadian plus shipping ! You would have to be insane to spend that money on any CB radio, let alone a Ranger LOL!
You can get a very decent used Icom or Kenwood ham rig for less than that and have a really competent radio......

 

[Blackcat630]

I looked at this on Walcott and it has button for GNF. ? It's a "Gabble Noise Filter" wtf is that?

According to the definition of Gabble:
"talk rapidly and unintelligibly; utter meaningless sounds"

So does flipping this GNF on channel 6 allow one to finally understand what these guys are talking about?

 

[AmericanEagle575]

I looked at this on Walcott and it has button for GNF. ? It's a "Gabble Noise Filter" wtf is that?

According to the definition of Gabble:
"talk rapidly and unintelligibly; utter meaningless sounds"

So does flipping this GNF on channel 6 allow one to finally understand what these guys are talking about?

I saw that,and I'm thinking that's got to be a misprint of word's, LoL

 

[BC Coyote]

It's a "Gabble Noise Filter"

You turn it on and suddenly every channel is totally silent..........
Wait, I already have one of those, it's called the 'off' switch !

 

[AudioShockwav]

The Infamous Galaxy noise filter......

73
Jeff

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Ranger is trying really hard, but they need to try a little harder.

 

[BC Coyote]

They need to try harder with quality control for sure. They need to address some long standing engineering issues with their radios......like the circuit boards that are slightly bent to fit them in, causing issues with cold solder joints (which shouldn't be there), and the pins connecting to the board.
But they also need to bring the price way way down !! You can buy a radio with much better build quality, that works perfectly right out of the box (looking at you Anytone), and often has more/better features/power output, and for a fraction of the price Ranger wants for a new radio! It's ridiculous really...........

 

[AudioShockwav]

Ranger is trying really hard, but they need to try a little harder.

I agree.
It's not like they can't buy a Anytone and reverse engineer the boards to see how they have developed the NR and DSP.
After all this is how the original Uniden board designs were cloned.
( and stop printing RT something on mystery mosfets)



73
Jeff

 

[Brother DXer]

 

[secret squirrel]

I really like the waterfall display, but can it play Super Mario Brothers?

 

[Eldorado828]

Ranger must have heard about qixiang developing a base in the future. They threw existing parts onto the assembly line and named it the 29 base.

Yeah same o'l same o'l but not bad actually. But the price!