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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kc0rey, post: 44797, member: 1865&quot;]Pick my brain? No problem. That is why I asked for this part of the forum to be added.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d recommend any Uniden (I always recommend Uniden because they are well built) or Cobra that fits the space you have. If you&#039;ll use SSB then pick one with SSB otherwise any of the AM models will work for you. All of these radios have the same power capability. Cobras built since around 1993 have some quality problems that are easily corrected. Before that they were built by Uniden and were rock solid.</p><p>For an antenna, save your money and leave the big coily jobs on the rack. By a 5/8ths wave antenna. It will have gain over the 1/4 wave antenna and will out perform almost everything available. Firesticks and the Wilson Silver Load are 5/8ths wave antenna and are inexpensive.</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently took a 5/8ths wave Skip Shooter and lengthened it almost 3 feet and made it a 1/2 wave antenna. This gives a gain of around 12db. It is now too long for the truck and will have to live on my Bronco. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, 3db gain is the same as adding 10 times the power to your radio. Every 3db doubles your signal.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The hard part:</p><p><br /></p><p>Every manufacturer expects you to run to the CB Shop for a tune up. Therefore, your new radio will not be set to it&#039;s legal limits. Now you&#039;ve got to find a good CB shop aqnd tell them you want a 4 Watt dead key and 100% Modulation. This should be done on an oscilloscope and not a meter. A good shop will have a scope and will know how to use it. Tell them you do not want the Modulation Limiter clipped. And watch them. They should not get near your radio with wire clippers of a soldering iron (except to unsolder the speaker to facilitate case removal).</p><p><br /></p><p>Buy the best coax you can afford and keep it short. Any excess, Coil it up near the antenna or the radio. They tell you not to and say it creates a choke. What it does do is create a crude Balun (matching device) and will not allow RF to travel on the shield back ito you cab.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;ve got to go play in the snow in Utah. I&#039;ll check back here tomorrow sometime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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