The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
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The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
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Was speaking to Nick last week about a mk1 148 GTL-DX that I picked up. When I first started testing it I thought that someone had been messing about with the crystals . My MID was on LOW . HI was on MID , and my HI band was on 10m . Looking at the solder side everything looked clean , which baffled me a bit . Anyway . Turns out after talking to Nick that some mk1 148s were made that way . With 10m on the HI band (17.010 crystal fitted) .
To be honest I haven't had many mk1s through the years , and I never knew this . Actually , this might only be my 2nd , or 3rd So . I was just wondering . When did Cobra switch from this configuration to the more standard LOW/MID and HI that we all know and love . Does anyone know ? I know it was 1980 sometime , but it must have kicked off from a serial number .
I'll need to check mine again when I get back , but I think it was in the first 3000 , or so .
Sammy
Was speaking to Nick last week about a mk1 148 GTL-DX that I picked up. When I first started testing it I thought that someone had been messing about with the crystals . My MID was on LOW . HI was on MID , and my HI band was on 10m . Looking at the solder side everything looked clean , which baffled me a bit . Anyway . Turns out after talking to Nick that some mk1 148s were made that way . With 10m on the HI band (17.010 crystal fitted) .
To be honest I haven't had many mk1s through the years , and I never knew this . Actually , this might only be my 2nd , or 3rd So . I was just wondering . When did Cobra switch from this configuration to the more standard LOW/MID and HI that we all know and love . Does anyone know ? I know it was 1980 sometime , but it must have kicked off from a serial number .
I'll need to check mine again when I get back , but I think it was in the first 3000 , or so .
Sammy
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Re: The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
Not sure about the MK1 148 GTL-DX Sammy, but some early MK2 360FM's covered mid/high/high high as stock. I have no idea when these started and finished production, but there does seem to be some weird and wonderful variants out there.
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Re: The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
Hi Andy.
Yeah. I think those ones have the higher crystal in them. The mk1 I have is a bit more like the first 360 which had 10m as well on the high band.
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Yeah. I think those ones have the higher crystal in them. The mk1 I have is a bit more like the first 360 which had 10m as well on the high band.
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Re: The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
Hi Claude .
Yes , but that only talks about the transition from the mk1 to the mk2 . I'm talking about the change in the mk1 bands from MID/HI/10m to LOW/MID and HI .
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Re: The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
I'm sure the first ever radio I tarted up was like that in about '85. It was a non-FM Superstar 360.
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Re: The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
Yeah . That's standard for the 1979 Superstar 360 .The Collector wrote: ↑10 Apr 2018, 16:33 I'm sure the first ever radio I tarted up was like that in about '85. It was a non-FM Superstar 360.
I'd just never came across the same thing with the mk1 148 GTL-DX .
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Just double checked my non FM 360 and, as I thought, it covers mid, high and the last band is up in 10 metres.
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Re: The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
Yeah . So did mine . That's the 360 standard . I moved the crystals in mine and did a mod to get the standard LOW/MID and HI bands . The other one I have had an eprom fitted to give it 5 bands .
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Re: The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
The NOS 360fm MK2's I recently purchased the one that I briefly used was mid/High/High High and had a notice of variation with the manual to say the frequency lisiting in the manual LOW/Mid/High was wrong.
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Re: The 10m Cobra 148 GTL-DX mk1
Slight correction . The old 360 had the FCC MID band on "LOW" . "MID" was 28.000-440 , and "HI" was 28.500-940 .cb4ever104 wrote: ↑11 Apr 2018, 10:00 Yeah . So did mine . That's the 360 standard . I moved the crystals in mine and did a mod to get the standard LOW/MID and HI bands . The other one I have had an eprom fitted to give it 5 bands .
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