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Black Spirit wrote:The inlay on that MV5 didnt look right to me, The lettering on the switches were quite a way off, I am guessing the inlay was an aftermarket one and not an original.
Black Spirit wrote:The inlay on that MV5 didnt look right to me, The lettering on the switches were quite a way off, I am guessing the inlay was an aftermarket one and not an original.
And a MK1V, both with cobrawankshopz fingerprints all over them.
The MK4 is my old one. It was perfectly fine when I owned it, but I wouldn't touch it now that Cobraworxshopz have been in it. Silly mods and a nail varnish fetish.
The £100 I paid for the MK4 off Gumtree was cheap to say the least. But after owning/using one I have to say they're definitely nothing special. In fact, I'd have to say I much prefer the performance of an unmodded 148/360.
Never, ever, ever....bloody anything ever!
Far too many radio's to list here. But I do own a legal one...
astradyne wrote:I'd have to say I much prefer the performance of an unmodded 148/360.
Here , here !
30TM060 Paul aka "Sammy". (108) PY60 Old Paisley DX Group (RIP Rab Markie)
Ex GM0 , now EA5 .
Handle "Fortune Hunter" back in "the day"
Radios ....? Anything that says "TAIWAN R.O.C" on the back.
radio pete wrote:nothing wrong with a moded jentec cobra/SS360 on 10M I have built many a mk5, all those with the IF preamp & spun ally VFO knob where built by me !
Im suprised you didnt replace the encoder out as the original didn't give it justice really....
As for the VFO knob that was an afterthought just didn't have the feel of a VFO at all as you say a spun alloy VFO knob give the VFO feel to the MK4-5's
I used to mod the spring in the incremental encoder & with the weight of the alloy knob it worked & felt nice to operate bit like a HF set of the time
i also did the same setup to a few lincoln/2830s
crikey this takes me back as well. I knew (of) john, wasn't a drinking buddy but knew his circle, he agreed to do me a 148 conversion in about 90/91, he said that he 'didn't bugger about with tired sets', so I bought a brand new 148 mk2 for £211, yup, £211. I hand delivered it to him and offered him the cash up front but he declined as 'it was his policy to take due compensation when the customer was happy', seriously, I'm not making this up, he was an odd character alright. anyway it took bloody months to get the thing back, but when It did, I was the dogs dangly things in town, I dined out on that set for years, I had so many offers to buy it it was stupid, and some were offering a grand, and this is 25 years ago. I sold it in about 2000 for £300 wich was still a lot of dosh then, I wonder if its still about, it was well used when I sold it, it had a hard life.
talking of him bein odd, I asked him how much I owed him and he replied 'how much is it worth to you?' I gave him £100 and he took it and didn't reply, so to this day I don't know if I offended him with a paultry amount.
Alinco DR135DX, Baofeng UV-5R, TYT MD380 (UHF), Realistic Pro-2035, JRC NRD-545 DSP, whitestick and ½ wave silver pole on the chimney and various lengths of wire draped around the garden.
that's not the john i new as his prices where preset ,all his kit was listed I still have copies of the price list & if you could call on him he had to know you well as that was how it was back then with the DTI etc looking around.
