What's the most "modified" CB radio?

[Ashtec]

I fined myself thinking some time's about what's the most modified typical CB radio is.

The first Cb radio that came to mined is the Cobra 148 with the diode mods then there's the Cybernet radio's with bad audio.

But then I thought about how many radio's that have been dedicated to PLL mod's or xtal mod's.
How many radios have you seen that have four or five switches sticking out the back or the case side's or to top of the case's and some replacing normal front panel switches that pick up two or three channels here and there President madison's and stalker xx's spring to mind
No one has any idea of where they'll be frequency wise when they flip around on the switches

I've seen Cb radio's with the final's wired straight to Vcc to get more power on FM and the list go's on.

What would members of TM1 say are the top 5 most moded 11 meter radio's they seen or worked on or had.

[RadioPixie]

That's a interesting question. Talking from experience in the past, and not necessarily in this order:

*80ch LC7137/7132 conversions
*Cobra148/SS360 mk2 diode matrix with expanded band switch/roger bleep/+10kc
*Cybernet SSB FM mod mod/extra band crystals/UK40 eprom
*Amstrad 901/Harvard Homebase RF power mod
*FM board added to AM rigs when Mid/CEPT band was legalised in the UK

[UGLY_BOB]

The sheer number of "five band" Cobra 148 GTL DX's must put that radio high on the list. It's often quite difficult to find an unmolested 120 Ch version these days ! 10k shifts and stuff on all manner of 'em.
Ugs

[psychobilly]

The sheer number of "five band" Cobra 148 GTL DX's must put that radio high on the list. It's often quite difficult to find an unmolested 120 Ch version these days ! 10k shifts and stuff on all manner of 'em.
Ugs

send ashtec out of the country for a year or to as he gets them and goes radio mental on them,total living legend <jentec> our ashtec.thats enough bigging him up do i qualify for a 148 modded to death

[George EI7KO]

But the real question here is are these mods really worth it?? It's ok slapping in another couple of bands to a rig but at the detriment of making it deaf seems a hardly worhwhile pursuit to me. Ok fine on variable power and 10kc jump switches and LEDs in the meters and so on. I find myself now undoing a lot of these 'mods' on my own rigs. For example the 747 I got there last Sunday needs the 'unlocked' clarifier taken out as it was done arseways. So I beg the question. Is a mod only a mod if it's useful????

[M1JWR]

But the real question here is are these mods really worth it?? It's ok slapping in another couple of bands to a rig but at the detriment of making it deaf seems a hardly worhwhile pursuit to me. Ok fine on variable power and 10kc jump switches and LEDs in the meters and so on. I find myself now undoing a lot of these 'mods' on my own rigs. For example the 747 I got there last Sunday needs the 'unlocked' clarifier taken out as it was done arseways. So I beg the question. Is a mod only a mod if it's useful????

Is that mod only 3 kc's one way to get ukfm, if so a resistor has been cut, cant remember which one but its near the front, thats about it, the other way was much more complicated, there is a thread on here about it on the dodgy 320fm, as i experimented with it before i made it totally different.
one strange thing i did find there was a coil put on the piggy back board amongst other things and if i used one of the wrong value i would affect how much swing it had, one gave it upto 20 kc's, either way
The 320fm was on the way out anyway, so i thought nothing ventured nothing gained

[Farty]

I confidently predict that when you all see my Murphtek conversion that the Murfee will suddenly become the most modded rig!

[George EI7KO]

But the real question here is are these mods really worth it?? It's ok slapping in another couple of bands to a rig but at the detriment of making it deaf seems a hardly worhwhile pursuit to me. Ok fine on variable power and 10kc jump switches and LEDs in the meters and so on. I find myself now undoing a lot of these 'mods' on my own rigs. For example the 747 I got there last Sunday needs the 'unlocked' clarifier taken out as it was done arseways. So I beg the question. Is a mod only a mod if it's useful????

Is that mod only 3 kc's one way to get ukfm, if so a resistor has been cut, cant remember which one but its near the front, thats about it, the other way was much more complicated, there is a thread on here about it on the dodgy 320fm, as i experimented with it before i made it totally different.
one strange thing i did find there was a coil put on the piggy back board amongst other things and if i used one of the wrong value i would affect how much swing it had, one gave it upto 20 kc's, either way
The 320fm was on the way out anyway, so i thought nothing ventured nothing gained

No the transmit and receive are about 1.5kc's apart, and no matter how much fiddling i done i could not get them to line up at all

[RadioPixie]

Yes sometimes mods are necessary. Rigs are built for a price and for the general consumer market. Also ways of operating change so rigs have to change with it, unless you are happy with 40 fixed channels. Making a rig with a roger bleep that isn't swichable from the factory has a lack of foresight (both Uniden and Cybernet were guilty of that one in the past). Making a rig with the most crudest of FM modulation, ie varicap driven by a AM circuit like in the Cybernet AM/FM & SSB rigs is the sure sign that manufacturers don't give a damn apart from profit. If op's want to use a black hole like 27.545 then a 10 shift has to be added. If op's need to use the "zeros" then the a 5kc shift of some description has to be added. It's just the nature of the freebanding beast. Someone has one and then some one else has to have one. As soon as a new radio is announced, what is the first questions people ask? Can it do export and can the power be upped. We are our own worse enemies

If the mod is done to a proper standard why not Even gear from the big boys "Y-I-K" have mods and further upgrades.

[Clapdoctor]

The am USA Cybernet PLL 02A 2 crystal loop chassis radios because they are very easily modified for 26.435- 27.705 meh with 2 toggle switches.

[bigpimp347]

The am USA Cybernet PLL 02A 2 crystal loop chassis radios because they are very easily modified for 26.435- 27.705 meh with 2 toggle switches.

10 year old thread and a reply that makes the mind boggle.!

[The Collector]

I'd personally say that the Fidelity 1000 has been the most "modified" CB radio of all time. Most people have chucked them away because they're crap, they've been crushed, melted down and then turned into something that's actually useful like a fridge

[wa10]

Any cb in the USA that you can do a swing mod npc mod & stupid blue leds beats anything over here.

[The Collector]

I gave up modding stuff a few years back. Anyway, after creating a purple Amstrad 901 with noise squelch, the 80ch mod and a built-in Vu meter with an extra row of LED's, I couldn't think of anything more crazy to create anyway!

[Otter]

I gave up modding stuff a few years back. Anyway, after creating a purple Amstrad 901 with noise squelch, the 80ch mod and a built-in Vu meter with an extra row of LED's, I couldn't think of anything more crazy to create anyway!

You could add SSB to it with a Maurer module, then use another Maurer mod to give it lo, mid, hi, +10kc +5kc and UK. And instead of just making it purple, you could make it multi-coloured.