I’m a little torn. There is something to be said for having say, a Cobra 2000 GTL, or Grant XL, Washington, even a Cobra 29 LTD, etc., with the normal channel selector and extra switch for the extra “channel”, I do enjoy that classic CB look / feel. For just basic chit chat, often don’t need any crazy features.
That said, I happened into an HR2510 many years ago that had a chipswitch in it, and I got spoiled with the channel scanning, memory channels, had all the local channels / frequencies stored in its memory. I could be working on something, have the squelch set, and knew when someone keyed up on one of the channels right away, could not do that with just a basic old school CB. Granted, the HR2510 / Chipswitch was an old radio too, but those are still modern like features in my book. I’m assuming the Anytone’s can do this sort of stuff, but features like that were less common. Might have been able to store channels in the 2950 and like radios, but I forget.
It would be hard for me to go back to not being able to scan my local channels, so I would definitely want a modern radio that could, but still would always like to have an old one to play with too.
I’ll play around with pretty much any radio, there can be fun in it all, so I’m still kind of torn. Can I say both?
