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Newbie to the forum...but not to trucking....most not to radios

Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by ghostwalker, Apr 19, 2010.

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Apr 25, 2010 #11

ghostwalker Bobtail Member

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Apr 19, 2010

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Big_m said: ↑

Currently I have a peak and tuned Cobra 29 Night-watch. Excellent radio, especially for the weather alerts. Most of the radios that I have been eye-balling do not have that feature.

Wants......to be able to talk further and to listen to conversations that are further out. I'm getting perhaps, on good days, a listening range of 3-5 miles. Same goes for transmit.

Ghostwalker, what antenna do you have and where is it mounted? How is your SWR? And what truck do you run? A peaked Cobra 29 should do a little better than that. The KL-203 will give you great out put. For about $60 cost you will get over 100 watts out. A few have shown about 150 watts. But you will need to have the radio turned back to about 1 1/2-2 watts dead key. Then with a good antenna you should see 20-50 miles all day long.
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SWR are around 1 to 1.5. The antenna is a Wilson adjustable tip 5' and sits on the drivers side mirror. Semi is a International 9600.

ghostwalker, Apr 25, 2010

ghostwalker, Apr 25, 2010

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