2020 Cascadia - Where in the heck do you hang the mic?

Ok. I'll give the stock a try just for comparison sake. What mount do you recommend?

 

Thanks for bumping that. I read all 23 pages of posts and now my head is spinning. I'm experiencing information overload. Your experience and knowledge of CB radio is far, far in excess of mine.

I don't want to mess about with all those extra accessories (amps, speakers, filters, etc.). Too much money and time and I wouldn't know what I was doing anyway. I'm not as serious about it as you appear to be, Slowmover. It's not a hobby for me.

I just want to be able to talk to people 3 to 4 miles away to find out what the hold ups are in traffic jams, hear about speed traps, etc.

With this in mind, what would you suggest?

 

I'm getting the 29 LX. It's what I had before and I liked it. It's on sale at PFJ right now, too.

 

Ok. Bought the 29 LX today and hooked it up. Again, integrated/stock antenna. The best radio check response I could get today was from a driver headed southbound on I-45 in Texas while I was northbound. He informed that he was at mile marker 263 while I was at 266, each of us +/- 0.5 miles for the time it took to get to the mile marker to read it. That's nothing to be ashamed of. He's behind me almost 3 miles with an antenna mounted into/near the front of my truck's front window?

I followed the user manual instructions to the letter on setting up SWR. While I acknowledge the poster reporting it is unreliable, it is still worth mentioning that it shows SWR at about 0.5 to 0.75 across channels 1, 20, and 40.

Further testing is required to verify distance. One single report is too small of a sample size to be reliable. Most of my attempts to range info today were unanswered.

I return to my truck Tuesday and will report back when I have more.