What amazes me most about CBs is the amount of design effort spent to "dress up" basic rubbishy circuit boards. All that wiring adds big cost to production. Typically rigs like this have a lot of redundant ex-AM circuitry too. Designing CBs around a set of ICs on single board must have paid off for the likes of Amstrad, even if their rigs weren't the top performers.
With all the grief I get at my workplace with anything beyond basic PCB stuffing, I'm grateful that I never worked in any kind of CB manufacture!
You may not have to touch much of the wiring, the front panel probably drops off just by undoing the screws. Then again is fitting white LEDs in 1980s radios defacing them?lambrettadave wrote:I am surprised that none of the lights have went dodgy on it but have thought about changing them for something newer like a nie orange glow from the buttons and knobs. but with all that wiring it makes it a daunting job.
-Rob
