How much linear power will affect the computers in new trucks?

LOL! I just put down my 5-string after playing along to Uriah Heep's "Easy Livin' ". And the handle of the lad with the Elkin puts me in mind of Steppenwolf's "Snowblind Friend".
Too many old guys here, I guess

 

Steppenwolf makes me think of magic carpit ride... Makes me think of the star trek the next generation move when they went back in time and went on the first warp flight... I like to dream yeaa.. Bam baa da du duu...

 

Try Blackfoot's "Highway Song" on a flat top. Gotta love it.

 

hooking up an external amp is a good idea but you have to understand that some companies will not allow it. Now if your owner op than ya it would be fine to run one. personally my self i would run a 10 meter radio with a built in kicker. i drive a 2010 prostar using a 10 meter rci2970n2 with a built in 200 watt kicker and ive had no issues

 

As I think about it, it may also have a lot to do with how effectively the antenna system is actually "transporting" the CB's energy out of the vehicle and away from the enclosure. A poorly designed antenna/mount combination that allows RF to travel on the shield of the coax and puts "RF in the shack", or an antenna that's mounted such that its pattern (and the cab's construction) allows a lot of RF to spray into the computer, is more likely to attack the vehicle's system than a better radio system. That may account for folks who're running near-KW levels without detriment while some people can't run 150 watts without suddenly simulating flying a Spad XIII and holding down the mag kill switch on the joystick.
Just a thought and, as I am wont to say, at my age they happen so seldom that I'm afraid they'll escape if I don't write them down when they make their fleeting appearances.
Oh, look: a squirrel! Hey, you kids -- get off my lawn! Now where did I put my keys? Dagnabbit.....
Seventy-uhhhh....what's that other digit?

 

Thought I was contributing to the conversation but don't understand everything I know,,,so I'm not sure.
Spad? Not bad at all!
Phaeton here!

 

Probably from before your time, you young whippersnapper! Well, mine too (thankfully).
But I remember as a wee lad, listening to Jean Shepherd (SK since 1999), famous broadcast radio voice (and writer/narrator of "A Christmas Story" movie). I lived in Noo Joisee during high school in the 60s, and he had a late night radio show on WOR. He'd been in the Army Signal Corps, and was a ham since about forever (K2ORS).
One evening he was talking about historic airplanes and their equipment. He could fill his allotted time slot perfectly with seemingly no wasted words (my hero!). He mentioned how little one could get by to make a radio for CW, and drew the parallel with a Spad XIII. He had a recording of the engine run-up, and said that once the mags were on and the ground guy had "propped" the engine to start it, it would run at full speed unless the pilot held down a button on the stick, which grounded the mags to kill the spark. In flight, the prop would windmill and create some drag, allowing the airplane to slow down some. Fortunately, it would also allow the engine to restart when the pilot needed power again and let his thumb off the button, since it was still turning.

Kinda the only way to land, too, if one wanted to use the airplane again without a rebuild. And maybe a new pilot. You've gotta be able to get below stall speed *somehow* and hopefully only when very close to the ground.

Come to think of it, that on-off sense of engine speed may have constituted the first sorta digital controller. Nowadays it's closely approximated by cab drivers in Noo Yawk City with their right foot

73

 

Klem 25...actually got a front seat ride in one from a grass field in Gopingen, W, Germany in 1977. Small world aint it?..I'm gettin' to old for this S#!t.
How bout that radial with the crankshaft bolted to the firewall & the whole engine/prop assy. rotated?
That wasn't your SPAD was it? Only the French.

Can't even imagine a pulse system. Might as well be using CW to fly by. (kinda was I guess) With digital, I could land a full-blown 747 if I could see it from standing in a nearby field. I'd crash my arse off if I was in it,,,but from outside? no problem.
The NYC cab drivers are another story.

73's back!

 

i had problems with my 2009 prostar. i think the factory ground strap rubbed through some of the wires in the mirror and every time i keyed up with some power behind the radio all my warning lights on the dash came on! so i mounted my antennae on the back bar of the sleeper with proper ground straps. no more warning lights. this works for me cause i have a mid roof truck and pull a tanker. 10 k with a 27 inch shaft .