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 Found these old cb radios, One is from America, 2 are from Aus land
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 Return to top of page · Post #: 1 · Written at 8:47:07 PM on 20 March 2012.
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 Return to top of page · Post #: 2 · Written at 1:17:21 AM on 22 March 2012.
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I suspect they all came from Japan. Smile
 
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It depends. Many vintage CB radios were unique here as they only had something like 23 channels. Later when 40 channel radios came out they came from Korea. Pearce-Simpson was one of the popular brands.

GME Electrophone still design and make most of their product line in Australia including 80 channel UHF tranceivers and EPIRB beacons. Whilst many of the components do come from SE Asia it is good to see that engineering and development work is not beyond good Australian companies that want to be as local as possible with value-addition. Other products include HF tranceivers and MATV networking equipment.

The one downside to Australian-made is higher cost though the quality, fit and finish is worth it when money is no object.


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