Cobra 25 29 or 148

Ran a General Lee for many years. Great radio, but i hear they have discontinued this model. You can still as far as i know get a Superstar 158. Is what i run now. Has all the bells and whistles as Gen.Lee. Has a couple more gadgets. Under $350.00.

 

RE: power. Was it in terms of factory settings or the capabilities of the radios? If the former, anyone with a good a good tech shouldn't care. If the latter, point taken!

 

Fair enough! Glad you said it was your personal opinion!

 

He was referring to the capabilities AFTER he tuned the radios. Said the older one should be noticeably stronger and clearer sounding to others than the new one would be.

 

I think thats the case with many products today,I have a General Electric CB that I purchased new and has been in continues service since 1979,had to replace 1 microphone,it will proabally outlast me

 

General Lee still available 185-250$ still really decent radio for the dough!

 

Agree 100%

 

Old vs new shouldn't really matter if you have a good technician they would both sound identical if they were tuned by a decent technician and you would be unable to tell the difference between the two as far as audio quality and you would be unable to hear the difference with a variation of a few watts. I have a Uniden PC 76 made in the Philippines with a 1969 final, a President hr2510 made in the Philippines with the MRF 477 final, a Magnum s9 with the MOSFET finals, another Magnum s9 with the 1969 finals, and a newer Cobra 148 with the MOSFET finals, and all of these radios sound exactly the same because they were all tuned by the same guy..

 

I have a gold faced 25 Ltd Philippine radio I bought new in 1991 and still use that radio. A shop in Florida pumped it up for me when Illinois was 55mph for trucks. He asked me where I got that radio and I told him I bought it new in 91. They’re a collectors item and he has one himself. Only made 2000 of them. I like it cause it works great. Just my opinion on radios.

 

I have a Taiwan ROC Cobra 29, and got a new Cobra 29 for Xmas, made in October 2017, and actually straight out of the box the new one recieves quiter than my older one. Got some good reports on the new one about sounding good. Guess only time will tell. Using an Astatic 636.