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Pic Of The Day / Unimatrics Stingray 11, 23ch "Marine" Grade CB - FB Marketplace
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Unimetrics sold a lot of Marine oriented CB's back in the day, but I don't think I have ever seen one with SSB before, that is rare for a marine CB. Unimetrics also made a number of matching CB and VHF radios with the same color schemes and shape. My favorite was their short lived "Dolphone" which was a blue/white version of the Lafayette Com Phone, with the telephone style microphone. Unimetrics was an interesting brand that had a great reputation in the marine industry, and offered some unique products. We were dealers back in the 70's and 80's for them.
Unimetrics was owned by Lafayette. My very first SSB radio, was a Unimetrics Stingray 1. It was identical in every way to the Telsat SSB-50A, except for the covers, which were painted a sky blue color and the name plate, which was glued over the Lafayette model, which was cast into the front panel.
I have never seen another one, to this day. I sold that radio i the early 80's. I would say it was rare.