Remember when you got a free mobile

[w9cll]

 

[w9cll]

And back when there were Ham quality 11 meter equipment -

 

[TM86]

Two things I've never seen on fleaBay, the CPI Video Monitor and the CPI wall wart.

Also, the 142/140GTL was a better deal than the 2000/25GTL. Gee, I wonder which they were trying to clear out of the warehouse?

 

[9C1Driver]

I like the add for the Cobra 142 claiming 120 channels. It was all about the advertising. Then they say 80 of them are SSB.

 

[w9cll]

Two things I've never seen on fleaBay, the CPI Video Monitor and the CPI wall wart.

Also, the 142/140GTL was a better deal than the 2000/25GTL. Gee, I wonder which they were trying to clear out of the warehouse?

its not the 2000, look closely its the 1000 although they look nearly identical.

 

[TM86]

its not the 2000, look closely its the 1000 although they look nearly identical.

Yep, you're right. Knew I should have learned to read for comprehension at some point.

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Wow, who could afford a radio back then?

 

[w9cll]

Wow, who could afford a radio back then?

Lol I know they were not cheap

 

[Shadetree Mechanic]

Lol I know they were not cheap

Yeah, $400 back then is about $1700 today.

 

[lonestarbandit]

Yeah, $400 back then is about $1700 today.

Well... they were the cell phones of the 70s. Technology costs!

 

[AudioShockwav]

Good radios were not cheap back then.
My Midland 13-895 23 channel SSB radio lightened my wallet a little over $300 new.

73
Jeff

 

[nomadradio]

I like the add for the Cobra 142 claiming 120 channels. It was all about the advertising. Then they say 80 of them are SSB.

I got 40 channels on USB, 40 channels on AM, 40 channels on LSB and 40 channels on PA. Funny, there's never anybody on PA.

73

 

[whiteastro]

My first radio was a Royce 23 channel AM mobile Over $100.00 bucks and that was all I could afford back in the mid-70s.

 

[w9cll]

Good radios were not cheap back then.
My Midland 13-895 23 channel SSB radio lightened my wallet a little over $300 new.

73
Jeff

This is so true, people coming into the hobby now don't realize how "good" they have it except the radios today are inferior quality to the old ones. The CPI stuff was easily over a grand in the 80s. I remember my father and I went to Korvettes and they had a sale on the Cobra 1000gtl, it was clearance for $150. Yep, we bought one, used that radio for a few years then gave it to my uncle.

 

[lonestarbandit]

I remember seeing a DAK I think it was somewhere. Four massive backlit meters, gorgeous metal faceplate, a massive base rig probably bigger than a GE Superbase...
I was young and don't remember the price tag on it, but I remember my father's hand on my shoulder and the words "...Drink it in, but not in a million years, so dont ask".
Think we had a Pearce Simpson Tiger or another Pearce Simpson it's a bit foggy and AVX (Audiovox) and a Kraco 23 channel so in retrospect we definitely were not in the right tax bracket for that huge monster.