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Here you go Cobra 2000 fans...
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Top of the line cobra base station wood grain speaker vintage.
Collector's stuff , not to keen on the extra holes on the front, but if you just got to have one....
At least it ain't sitting on a yellow tablecloth.
73
Jeff
Collector's stuff , not to keen on the extra holes on the front, but if you just got to have one....
At least it ain't sitting on a yellow tablecloth.
73
Jeff
Read the listing and it comes with my cousin Manuel hahaha!
I just had to.....
I just had to.....
I’m not either. Not that they’re a bad radio. Just not my thing.
Haha, thats funny. Almost everyone here is like "cobra 2000? Meh". I am in that boat too. The cb world tries to make like the cobra 2000 is the holy grail, radio of all radios, THE GOD! Meh, lol. Its a cool radio and all but still, its just a cb base station. Not worth the $600+ people get for them.
Any time anyone asks advice about a Cobra 2000 I assume that it's the oldest 1979 production year with 300,000 hard miles on it. The inevitable "How much to (fill in the blank)" question gets answered as if the radio were that old and that tired. I may get a surprised reaction like "That's expensive". I'll answer that he can take 3 percent off the number I guesstimated for every year that it's newer than 1979.
And if it's the final-production 1993 radio from the Philippines, whatever they want is probably cheaper.
Naturally nobody who asks that kind of question ever knows the age of the unit in question. I just tell them it's safer to answer that kind of question pessimistically. Covers my ass when the radio really does turn out to be a basket case.
73
And if it's the final-production 1993 radio from the Philippines, whatever they want is probably cheaper.
Naturally nobody who asks that kind of question ever knows the age of the unit in question. I just tell them it's safer to answer that kind of question pessimistically. Covers my ass when the radio really does turn out to be a basket case.
73
I had one years ago. The one I had someone had gottten into and was severely butchered. I can run one of my grants off a power supply and it’s same radio. And if I want extra channels I have radios for that as well. I thought it would be cool to have one but then once I did the thrill was over.
Any way to tell the Cobra 2000 vintage by serial number?
Cobra themselves couldn't tell me.
It's packed away right now, unsure of build location, but
pretty sure it wasn't a Phillipines model.
73's
Cobra themselves couldn't tell me.
It's packed away right now, unsure of build location, but
pretty sure it wasn't a Phillipines model.
73's
One problem arises if that first digit is "9". Is it 1979? or 1989? Pretty sure that was the year they moved to the Philippines. Four-digit date code on the MB8734 PLL chip will settle that question. Unless it's been replaced with a 8719 to get more channels.
When that happens, pop the cover of the clock/counter. Should be a handful of chips with four-digit open-date codes on them.
Some of the Siemens-made "S042P" transmit-mixer chips will also have an open date code. And some don't.
73
When that happens, pop the cover of the clock/counter. Should be a handful of chips with four-digit open-date codes on them.
Some of the Siemens-made "S042P" transmit-mixer chips will also have an open date code. And some don't.
73