Cobra 19

[FriedTater]

I mount mine to the front of the bed,always have.
Most people freak about drilling holes,but personally I tend to want to wear stuff out before I die and leave it to someone else. LOL!!
I use half of a mirror mount and good quality stainless steel hardware.
Abit of RTV silicone on the mount side keeps the water out.
I also run a 6ga chassis ground wire off of one of the bolts on the mount
to a stock bolt attached to the truck frame.To some this may be overkill,but history has taught me to do it going in on all new installs.
I spare no expense,solider,silicone,zip ties and heat shrink are a must IMO.
Same applies to powering the radio,I run both pos/neg lines with separate spade fuses off the battery back into the cab thru a hole I drill in the firewall.
Takes about an hour and 3-4 cold beers,or 2hrs with 4-5 cold beers.LOL!!
My preferred stick for barefoot mobile is a long shaft Wilson 2K.

anyway..........
Anyone know for sure what the Cobra's are doing with the Mosfets ?
33-35 might be a real deal ?????

Originally Posted by clantonman1983

Fried Tater... I don't have a toolbox, I have a bedcover. Guy at the shop said the best place would be my roof but someone else also mentioned one of those antennas that bolt onto the front of my bed.

Red Fox...Yeah i know what you mean. I wasn't planning on getting anything modded like that but i got a real good deal. i think it was somewhere in the vicinity of 30 to 35 watts when he hooked it up to a meter. I trust him though, he's pretty good. most people i know that have a 25 said that's what they usually run. somewhere between 25 to 35.

[Red Fox]

Tater: I'm with you man. Once properly installed, you virtually never have to fool with it again. I also like to put "NoOx" or a similar dielectric electrician's grease on the connections so they NEVER corrode, including ALL the antenna connections and stinger. My homemade antenna has been a stone flat SWR now for about 10 years.

Clanton, you may be right, or the guy may have his meter adjusted high, but waaaaay back when I had my 25 modded by my mom's shop, it was set a 17 watts to make it last. Evidently they were getting a lot of them in for repairs that had been fully turned up, and mine lasted for 10 years of trucking plus several in a pickup like that. They may have a different board now, but I do recall when the "25 Classic" came out, as a copy of the original 25. People liked them enough for Cobra to do that.
I still say people will be disgruntled with Byrd (true) wattage. It doesn't measure the peaks, just the power, and it's possible that my tech had used a Byrd meter on it. He was a real stickler for accuracy and doing things right, and I wish I could find him now.
Anyone remember the Fox Den CB shop in Austell Ga.?