Handheld cb radio

I have that model and although good from one side of the road to the other, I'm not optimistic about 5 miles. Im sure using an external antenna would be a huge improvement in range for you/me. Ill test it with an external antenna asap and report back.

BTW there are a bunch of youtube videos on this unit

 

I bet you'd get adequate performance with an external. As far as tuning I'll let the resident gurus answer that.

 

They all need some sorta tuning..Im no expert either but im 99% sure on my answer..

 

The good news is that tuning an antenna is usually not brain surgery. A few notable exceptions have been discussed on this forum.

Oh yeah there are also lots of reviews on Amazon. Mostly positive. Some of the negative reviews are about crazy things such as "the units appeared to be refurb, not new"

 

The 75822 midland is ok but the cobra HHROADtrip offers as magnetic antenna you can take it with you truck to truck there is a great website that can help you out www.wearecb.com

 

Check this beauty out. I know a guy that has one of these with the Motorola MRF477 conversion and it works great.
http://www.deltaelectronicsonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Magnum+1012

 

have the Midland 75-822, rubber antenna is junk, to run a co-ax it hooks into the top of the radio. It's a PITA with the co-ax in the top and the power wire coming out of the bottom, I felt like I was always fighting it with wires going everywhere. There's really no good way to tune that radio, got the antenna set, but it never worked like I wanted and never had a good signal. Got a Cobra 29 and I'll never go back.

 

i bought the handheld Cobra radio just to talk to the quarry loader when i drove a dump truck and when i found out the batteries would not charge when plugged into the 12 volts I through it on the junk pile. Too much trouble to remove batteries-charge-reinstall. Make sure yours will recharge at the same time it's plugged into 12 volts and using it.