Best and worst looking CB's

[astradyne]

The Jumbo was a bit of a pig too and about 20 times larger than it actually needed to be

In all reality a big empty box as just about all CB homebases were/are.

The DNT homebase was very compact. Pity it was junk

DNT (Does Not Transmit). Weren't they just a mobile rig with a small PSU bolted on the back?

[Buick Mackane]

In all reality a big empty box as just about all CB homebases were/are.

The DNT homebase was very compact. Pity it was junk

DNT (Does Not Transmit). Weren't they just a mobile rig with a small PSU bolted on the back?

More or less Andy yes

[Mudslinger]

The Team/Jesan Homebases were also pretty small yet they still managed to fill them with a complete mess of wires.

They were not a bad looking radio though, even if build quality was suspect.

[lambrettadave]

The SATCOM base was cool and you could get a satellite TV receiver that matched it too

[astradyne]

The Team/Jesan Homebases were also pretty small yet they still managed to fill them with a complete mess of wires.

They were not a bad looking radio though, even if build quality was suspect.

Back in the day I saw a couple of these that had had Uniden boards fitted into them (Audioline 341/Uniace 200 etc). When one popped up for sale people were clambering over themselves for it. This was in the days when nearly everything was sold on CH19 muppets.

[Tin soldier]

I would say the best looking was Midland 4001 from around 1981 time as I always thought that they looked professional. Then when CB went legal I bought a Binatone 5 star from Rumbeloes on the parade in Leamington spa.The worst looking rig was a 40 channel LCL it had no meter and no fairy lights and was the cheapest mobile 40 ch on the market and it looked it.

Agreed, LCL is one of the worst. I remember buying one back in the day as a quick cheap way just to get back on air after my decent rig had died.
Couldn't live with it especially not having a meter.


Trying to remember the one I had with lights for a meter ???
Hated that too

Rigs with lights or LEDs
Grandstand bluebird and Gemini
Amstrad 900 and 901
Team 3100uk base station
Midland mini rigs
Compact cybernet rigs.

Yes an amstrad. Just couldn't get on with the signal meter. But better than nowt.

I've got a manor kestrel and although derided by many it works really well and I like the look of it

[Tin soldier]

Grandstand Bluebird had lights for a meter?

That Harvard with the vertical s meter was ugly, as was the Cats whiskers thing.

Had the harvard with the vertical meter back in the day

[lambrettadave]

Grandstand Bluebird had lights for a meter?

That Harvard with the vertical s meter was ugly, as was the Cats whiskers thing.

Had the harvard with the vertical meter back in the day

I had trouble selling one of those good buddy rigs. They looked okay I guess but they bleed terribly. A mobile breaker bought it from me and I never seen it again