Cheech said:I have heard they drift around on freaquency but this is only what I have heard. They might be fixable but Im not sure. Ill third the motion to spend the extra money on a galaxy.
The Taiwan Built 148's and president Grant's were the best of their kind. In my Honest Opinion.
The Taiwan Built 148s and the President Grants are similar, but very different. This is true for the Uniden Grants of that same generation (6 knobs on left of face, Meter and Channel display and 4 buttons in middle, channel selector on right) (President Grant with 3 buttons under the meter is same as a Cobra 138XLR, has 858PLL and Totally different!)people have been saying the 148 made in the Phillipines was the best, and they aalways want more money for them. I had one made in the Phillipines and one made in Taiwan at the same time and I couldnt tell any difference in the receive. The one in the Phillipines had alot more swing but that could be because of two different techs tuning the radios.
cbshack said:Does anyone own one of these radios and what are your thoughts?
JustinDePolis said:Or maybe we just have a better way to do it instead of jacking up the gain in the front end of the receiver, where there is little filtering, and already too much gain. How about lowering the gain in the front end, then raising it later down the line, this would improve sensitivity, and selectivity, and intermod rejection. (I'm not even going to go into what more gain in the front end can do to the AGC circuit, or input/output impedances, harmonic generation by that transistor, etc)