Cobra 19

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 ?????

 

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.?

 

How long will a cobra 25 last running that kind of wattage?