Rarest cb / export you’ve owned

[SuperLid]

Never owned one but a friend had one back in the late 70's.
Any one remember the Digicom, believe it was made by Polamar.

I have 5 of them. They never fully worked...they were made by CPI.

 

[SuperLid]

Unimetrics Stingray 1. It was my first SSB radio. I have never seen another one or any trace of it's existence.

 

[lonestarbandit]

You sure there's a "T" in that brand name?

Have a weakness in here.. they kill you. Thems the rules lol

 

[Rwb]

You sure there's a "T" in that brand name?

aint been close to 1 since 1975 ,cant remember

 

[lonestarbandit]

aint been close to 1 since 1975 ,cant remember

 

[Hawkeye351]

No doubt about it. Never did find a schematic for the thing. One batch got sold around here, and it was never seen for sale again.

73

Yea, I finally figured out the alignment procedure by following the paths from the VCO, PLL and transmit path. Turned out awesome.

VCO buffers maxed out,
VCO set as a 3600/3900,
Oscillators (all) according to standards,
Transmit section tuned for max swing,
Deadkeys set to my liking,
Replaced all caps,
Replaced a few resistors for audio around the mic amp,
New meter,
Swings around 28w peak, around 40w pep, bout 10w average forward,
Cleaned all switches and controls,
Replaced 2 variable resistors,
Applied the AMC Attack Time improvement on it,
Talked on it a few days and got great reports for a single final. Finally unhooked it and put it on the shelf for safe keeping. I use SSB a lot, and it doesn't have SSB, so I hooked my 949 Stryker Killer back up, been using it every since.

 

[tramdr]

I am an old tube CB radio collector, I have no rare exports, but I got some rare oldies: Buddy Base, ARF 2001, Browning Raven, Tram XL-100, General Radiotelephone SB-72 rare tube SSB radio with Collins filter, General Radiotelephone MC-12 said to have so much audio, it was never approved by the FCC so only a few prototypes were made. Demco Satelite II the digital 40 channel one with a PLL which is also a rare prototype with only a few made.

 

[Van Lifeson]

Supposedly green Mark 3’s are pretty rare. A friend of mine actually talked to Gar Green (the president or something of Browning) he said it was a bad batch of paint they got but they used it anyway because they had to be frugal. He said out of the approximately 30,000 mark 3’s made, maybe 300 of them came out green. Either way, you don’t see too many.

 

[Trainman 8274]

Howdy,

My harder to find radios consist of an ARF 2001, Stoner Pro-40, CPI CP400 with the power supply and speaker and a well modified Buddy Base station. For the export crowd, I have a Cobra 148 GTL-DX, but its not functional.

Stuart

 

[Onelasttime]

President Lincoln 1998 VIntage with the MRF455 factory final. I still own it.

 

[Onelasttime]

You know I have a Yeti Optima Mk III that has to be more rare than my President Lincoln.

 

[Onelasttime]

Hey 357, I had a Trc-9 as well!
It had channels 3 , 9 and 11 in it.
My first Johnson tube cb was a black face with 8 crystal controlled channels and a switchable 23 channel receive.
Exports.
The guys across the pond had all the exports of course.
My first new in the box export was a President Lincoln back in the 80's produced by President Electronics of Belgium.
You did not see many of those.
It was a rare radio.
Back then a mobile radio that did 26 to 30 MHz was something.
My friend Tracy got a brand new Super Star 360FM that was sweet, it was like a cobra 148 on steroids.
I am not sure but I think he got it from Red Monkey Communications.
Export radios were back room hush hush stuff back then.
Uniden was the big player back then , and Cybernet as well.

73
Jeff

In 1991 I got a RCI2950. I was a Senior in high school and it was an amazing radio. 26-30mhz with dual VFO and all those features was just amazing.

 

[Onelasttime]

I have a Cobra 138xlr.

I have 2 of them. Fantastic radio's! When they get to be this old you need to have one for keeps and one for parts!

 

[Onelasttime]

Where's all the photos??

I do not think I have a single photo of any of my radio's? I have toilet that I use 12 times a day and never taken a photo of it.