Deltatune vs. Soundtracker?

[jeepskate99]

Originally Posted by Coonass

The guy that works on my radio said the SWR meter on the radio is not a good indicator of the actual SWR reading. I thought the same thing, that mine was good because of the meter on the radio, but he said its not.

I was just at a reputable local shop and the owner said the internal meter is fine. This was when I was there to buy a meter so I really believe him. He gave up a 55 dollar sale on it.

[Rat]

Originally Posted by jeepskate99

I was just at a reputable local shop and the owner said the internal meter is fine. This was when I was there to buy a meter so I really believe him. He gave up a 55 dollar sale on it.

Out of all my Cobra and Uniden Radios that I have owned the factory internal SWR meter was off from .5 to 1.5 swr when compaired to a good swr meter.

.5 in some cases may be exceptable but when it gets to 1 then this is not exceptable for proper tuning.

[BOOTYMONSTER]

the delta tune is something that was necessary back in the days when companies used crystals in cb's to generate the frequency of the channel chosen to use . they wernt as stable on frequency as todays radios . it was used in a similar manner to a clarifier on a SSB radio but on am . today that location makes a good place to add a variable echo controll or a variable deadkey .

the cobra soundtracker and uniden DSC feature are useless in my opinion with or without another radio having the same feature . it can make a convient place to switch talkback on and off though .

the cobra and uniden's are fine radios , i prefer uniden myself . its like ford and chevy , both have their fans .

always use an external swr meter . they are typically much more accurate than what's on a radio built in .they also have a larger much easier to read meter . dont forget a coax jumper for the meter .

[Bigstretch]

The Soundtracker does seem to help cutting down on truck generated background noise. Can run the RF gain switch up a bit higher and the Squelch down a bit more as well. About a wash in high traffic areas, though.

I don't think you got "took" on the Cobra. Great radio. If it was a 25 NW ST WX, then yes, they suck. Can't back off the RF gain, and it picks so much crap it isn't even funny. Removing the RF gain switch was a stupid idea on their part.