What is the Difference?

I recomend you get one with good noise blocking options, I like my Cobra 148 NW. Really clears up the static nice and blocks out those pesky weak signals and gets the stronger signals through loud and clear.

 

Ok to start with there are only 40 channels not 120. The 40 channels have 3 operating modes AM/USB/LSB the same exact freq just different modes of operation so any basic CB radio is going to have the same channels. Its just whether or not it has the USB/LSB/FM modes on it. So with this radio you get 40 channels and then the weather band you can do the same thing with a cobra 25 or 29 with weather band and not have the USB/LSB feature which 90% of the truck drivers don't use the USB/LSB any way so no its not neccessary to spend all that money on a fancy radio when the cobra 25 or even the little cobra 19 will do all you really need to do. Heck its a shame the FCC made them illegal years ago but the old 1 and 3 channel crystal controlled would be fine for todays radios since 90% of the world talks on channel 19 anyway.

 

he's taling about side band radio not the exports. side bands are perfectly legal. it's basically taking the wave the cb usually uses, spliting that wave into three pieces and each side band uses one of those pieces

 

ha ha, you can tell people that all you want, but in 2 days they will go back to saying ssb is illegal :-/