Cobra 29 NW LTD Classic

you could have gotten a better one, and for free. if you had just broken into someone's truck.

 

Don't mess with it, if works, leave it alone.

Echo?

Seriously you really don't want to be understood.

 

I agree with Ridgeline , leave it stock, I have the same radio , manufacture Nov 10, and run it stock in my mobile with a Wilson 1000 Magnet mount antenna with a Ranger SRA 198 mic, and have no problem talking to locals 10 to 15 miles and everyone says its loud and clear. Not that its all that important did once check it on a meter and it was deadkeying 5 watts pep swing to 20 watts OTB.

 

In addition I forgot to mention the receive is excellent, very low static and hiss, might be the best NB/ANL filter on a radio that I have had next to a Cobra 148 GTLF and I hear other CBs way off in the distance. Also like the fact that it has a dimmer knob in place of the Delta tune, can somebody tell me why they still put on the Delta tune, isnt it leftover from the old crystal radios?

 

So you'll have a spot to put the echo knob. That's the only reason I can figure, anyway. Unless a guy wants to use that spot for variable power, but I've never needed it.

 

I guess you have to decide if it is worth getting 1 or 2 watts of carrier and possibly 5 to 10 watts( maybe ) more of pep swing, that some will say swing isnt important. If the radio is stock modulation may be in the 85% ballpark, you could always open it up and increase modulation level to 100% by adjusting VR4, there is an article on cbradiomagazine.com that shows you how to do it, but then again that may not be necessary.