Anybody ever see one of these?

[Tallman]

Further investigation and I have found volumes of information. There are only TWELVE of these in the United States.
It in fact was made in France, imported to the U.S. and made without the permission of the company that designed it,
Ranger. The only reason that this radio is collectable is the CRT brand name on it and it was not approved for manufacture.


I have been investigating this radio and found out that there are only 12 of these in the United States! I think the collect-ability on this radio just went up and price has gone up as well.(I'll add it to my museum)

[Tallman]

I just had to take this radio out of the box and test it a bit. Hooked it up on my test bench and it keyed normally and checked the functions. AM/FM worked and showed pretty good modulation. the power levels on dead key was two watts, 5 watts and 10 Watts. Had good swing on AM up to 18 watts on the high power level. Echo works just fine. Got several radio checks and the reports were all good. Looks like a winner, just a crying shame that there is no SSB.

[Silverado 996]

I think if the force 1 had SSB would have really been a popular radio, minus the picture viewing function.

[Tallman]

I could not figure out the picture viewing thing at all. Screen is too small and not very good resolution either. The last thing I would want to do would be to watch still photos on a small screen. The screen on back of my camera is larger and brighter than that one. Can you imagine driving down the road and listening to an Ipod?

[Silverado 996]

I'm willing to bet 85-90% of the members here sync there IPods to their radios in the car. I know I do... 8700 songs of commercial free listening, and no CDs to screw with. However, a completely useless funcution on a cb radio. I guess when they designed the radio they were hoping the cars of the fucture did have radios or speakers?? Lol! Silly designers! Here in the "future" we an App called Pandora!