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WTB: Galaxy Saturn Turbo

radioman24

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Hello! I am looking to buy a Galaxy Saturn Turbo that is in both great physical and working condition.

Please let me know what you might have for me and a asking price.

Please include pictures if the front,top and back of the radio.

Thank you,Dan
 

Hello! I am looking to buy a Galaxy Saturn Turbo that is in both great physical and working condition.

Please let me know what you might have for me and a asking price.

Please include pictures if the front,top and back of the radio.

Thank you,Dan
Hey Dan, this just popped up local around me. Contact the seller and see if maybe i can pick it up and ship it to you if you get him paid or some other arrangement.
Let me know soon because im sure it wont last long.
https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/ele/d/clearwater-galaxy-saturn-cb-base-station/7376455196.html
 
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My decades of experience with this radio would first lead me to suggest that the original RCI2990 from the mid-to-late 1990s is the exact, same thing on the inside. The name "Galaxy Saturn Turbo" only identifies the importing company who brought it into the USA.

Another company imported it with the name "Eagle 5000" on the front.

Same radio on the inside. Just different paint on the faceplate.

One thing we insist on doing with any of these amplified "black" radios with the enormous heavy power transformer is to upgrade the power supply. The one it was built with is suicidal. Even if a sharp tech has modded it for better reliability, the risk it will run away and pop the radio's computer with excessive voltage is just too high for us to ignore.

The modern-day "DX" amplified radios use a one-piece "brick" self-contained switchmode power pack. Much lighter than the old transformer, but also contains the two protection features the old supply did NOT have. The 'brick' will shut down before feeding more than about 16 Volts to the radio. You won't blow the computer with that. Likewise it has a current limit on the DC output.

The original power supply had no protection of any kind but the power-line fuse. Prevents the radio from setting your house on fire, but won't protect anything inside the radio from overload damage. And since you can't replace the computer that runs the front panel once it's blown, this is why we preemptively remove this risk, unless the radio's owner says "don't". A horse trader who hires us to spiff up the whitewalls won't want to spend any real money before selling it.

It's a myth that finding a low-mileage original specimen of this radio will get you a reliable daily driver. That wasn't our experience when it was being sold new 25-plus years ago. It required intervention brand new out of the box.

If you buy one and it hasn't had "suicide intervention" applied to it yet, your enjoyment will probably be short-lived.

73
 
I'm almost disgusted at buying old used rigs anymore. More times than none I've found that several hands have already been in them or they look like they've spent their existence sliding around a floorboard of a truck.

Be cautious buying used from unknowns characters....

Just look at the ingenuity on the back of that Saturn and rear switch the owner may not even know what it's for. Unless it comes from one owner and he's a person with integrity, I'm out with buying old junk. Last used rig I bought on ebay was a galaxy 77 that a guy said came from his dad's closed cb shop in Florida. Claimed his dad wasn't a butcher. It looked good but once under the hood it looked like a radioactive special with such a birds nest. Nah for me
 
I'm almost disgusted at buying old used rigs anymore. More times than none I've found that several hands have already been in them or they look like they've spent their existence sliding around a floorboard of a truck.

Be cautious buying used from unknowns characters....

Just look at the ingenuity on the back of that Saturn and rear switch the owner may not even know what it's for. Unless it comes from one owner and he's a person with integrity, I'm out with buying old junk. Last used rig I bought on ebay was a galaxy 77 that a guy said came from his dad's closed cb shop in Florida. Claimed his dad wasn't a butcher. It looked good but once under the hood it looked like a radioactive special with such a birds nest. Nah for me

You must not have read the entire description. This radio has monster swing and audio that will make you standby in awe, or something to that effect. Oh brother.
 
I’ve not seen the inside but I can already tell you to walk away. That or be prepared for someone to refurb it for you.
 
I’ve not seen the inside but I can already tell you to walk away. That or be prepared for someone to refurb it for you.
Agreed AND its not cheap to properly ship one of these "black base" radios either. Nomad agreed to refurb the 2995dx i bought a few years ago and it was $85 from Florida to Kentucky. So thats another $170 just for traveling. Of course that doesn't include the new supply and install and any other work that needs to be done.
Unless you can do your own repairs and refurbs this isnt a cheap hobby if you want to play with the big boys.
I figure im just spending/investing my kids inheritance and they can sell the gear when i die. I told my son that the other day and it was just silence on the phone. I like that i can still make him feel awkward
 

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