How Good Are Cobra CB"s

Cobra 29/25 and 4 pill kicker,gets em riled every time

 

Hey Tater, another stupid question from the guy who's still learning. lol
What qualifies a linear to called a 2 pill or a 4 pill? I've never really understood that.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but "Pills" are the transistors inside the amp, hence a "2 pill" is an amp that has two transistors in it. I run a 2 pill with my dx99v.

 

Tri Axel is correct. there are lots of different " pills " that make the difference in what the power of the amp is, just to name a few from the lower to the more powerful. 1446, 2290, 2879. are the most common.
The 2879's will take more power in, for a higher out put.
For example a lot of amps with a built in driver section will be configured like this if it is say a 2 x 6 it will have 2 2290's driving 6 2879's.
Or in my case I have a straight 8 pill all 2879's I'm hitting it with a 75 watt dead key swinging to 240 pep so the amp is putting out just under 2,500 pep. hope this helps. It is a little confusing at first.

Oh yea the reason they are called pill's is they are round and white.

 

best radio like a cobra25 is a midland 5001, it is almost identical to the cobra 25, and has WAY better noise cancellation.


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KillRoy did good,
Pills,Finals or whatever you slang name them are all transistors with varying wattage input and output tolerances.

Many knock the 2 pill (1446) box's for what ever "their"
reason ? but they are often very clean rigs making good power and great audio for those on a budget

 

Am a company driver and have really crappy coax on the truck and don't think the ant.s are much better. Will running a single ant., on the passenger side, work almost as well as duals?

 

Better. In order to get a dual antenna setup to work to it's full potential it is recommended that they be at least 9 feet apart. I would mount a single on the drivers side though because it won't get beat up by tree limbs and such as it will on the passenger side if running country roads and 2 lane highways. Also mirror mounts are somewhat directional so mounting driver side will give you more of a direction towards oncoming traffic instead of out the passenger side away from oncoming traffic. Just my $.02

 

Yes!! Get Good quality coax. Not the junk in most truck stops. A good Mini 8 is what you want. And a single antenna set up IMO is way better than two. Way much simpler to tune for low SWR's. And just a word of advice I learned the hard way. Put the antenna on the drivers side. You wont hit as much with it. I ripped one off on a two lane road once, low tree branch's and antennas don't mix well.

 

Never run a single stick on the right side.
Mounted on the left allows for better control of what you smash into