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

You said you followed instructions on setting up swr, the radios meter( or seperate meter) only checks the swr, the actual adjustment is made at the antenna which is impossible with that setup, I would have to doubt the swr is that low based on my experience unless Freightliner made some drastic improvements the last couple of years.

 

The best investment you could make is a $25 SWR meter, usable for any CB radio and any truck / antenna for years in the future. It's truly an investment in the life and effectiveness of your radio.

 

CB world carries the 68 and 78 models.

ThePC68LTX brings back the high quality circuitry that made Uniden famous! Radio operators have been mourning the disappearance of the "high-cut" audio option from Uniden's CB Radio line up for quite some time. Now Uniden has reintroduced the high-cut aud

I guess they’ve dropped the XL models. Looks like they added a high cut tone audio and discontinued the dynamic squelch control. They are good radios. Not too bad of a price either.

 

All I can tell you is that the new cobra 29 internal swr meter read 1.2 for swr on my co-workers truck. I knew better because these old Wilson antennas never did work very good. I eventually remembered to bring my antenna analyzer to work, and the antennas swr was around 5.1 for a reading. Basically a dead short or open.

Now if you are talking 3 miles with a poor designed antenna system in that new truck, chances are the antennas SWR isn’t that bad.

 

New radios with micro chassis and surface mount technology, I have the 78ltd anniversery model, good radios, come stock with mosfet, 4 watts carrier 20 watts pep stock.

 

When I was in cascadia my Tx and Rx range was 3 to 4 miles with swr close to 3.0.

 

I didn’t realize they have switched to a mosfet final. Also the new President Walker II sure looks like a nice radio too.

 

I’m surprised that you could talk that far with a 3.0 swr. That’s not so much a problem with the old tube radios. With the newer radios usually a high swr like that will even cut back on the receive noise.