Chelco 23- Channel CB, Anyone Seen One Before?

[DTB Radio]

I've never seen this brand or heard of it. I'm guessing its one of those little niche brands that popped up to take advantage of the huge CB craze of the 1970's. The maker is Asahi Denki Co, LTD out of Japan. The radio works well, and was even made with a standard 3-pin power connector like a Cobra 29/25 radio. It is a basic 2-knob affair (plus channel selector) with no switches at all, so its a bit of a surprise they went to the expense of the 3-pin connector. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. It was part of a large collection of vintage gear we took in last week that included a Uniden Washington and an old-school Cobra 148.

 

[nomadradio]

Only reference I can find to that name was as the vendor of an audio-cassette recorder sold with the Atari name on it, as a program storage unit for the original Atari 8-bit home computers. And a few specimens on fleabay.

Never remember seeing that one back in the bad old days.

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[sunbulls]

You can add that one to list of other ACT-1914 radios. I changed all of them to except 4 pin Cobra mics. Service manual and schematic to follow.

 

[nomadradio]

Wow, cool! I had a Smokey mobile a customer gave me. Ditched it on fleabay.

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