Thinking about a cb upgrade...

Ranger has a radio that's got 4 pills 6900 series run you about 600 but the radio will talk look up r and r communations in del also get rid of the wilson and get a fatboy, monkeymade, davemade, predator 10k, black widow.

 

No offense but palomar is bottom of the barrel texas stars are better good amps are davemade which is the best and won countless keydown comps followed by fatboys your palomar probably might actually do 125 watts.

 

Not offended. It does real well for me and when Hooked up to a Power meter, it shows to be putting out a full 250 watts dead Key.

 

My Palomar TX150 puts out 175W and I looked at signal on scope and it looks good. I run it low power, because it saves amp and works well in a truck. Low Power it runs about 80W. Using a Galaxy 959 with drive set at 2W. My SWR on amp side is 1:2 on channel 20 and 1:4 on channel 1 and 40.

 

About how far do you think you could talk with 100 watt? I know it will vary

 

BTW, I just put this in my rig using tips from this forum..

 

Yes it does vary, truck to truck, daytime vs night, 8-12miles is guesstimate. JMO 100 watts is a good size, most 'big' radios are around that size, so any further you are out talking your ears. I wish I could find the graph watt vs distance, but anyway it shows (if I remember correctly) around 75 watt the curve begins turning higher, showing you'd need 150watt for the next mile and 300watt for 1/2mile and so on...around 400watt the graph is so steep you just throwing money out the window.

EDIT: Here is a graph with the curve I refered to. This graph uses 20 mile baseline @ 4 watts, so keep that in mind when looking at distance. I believe for a more accurate idea on ch19 multiply the distance by .2 or approx %20

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http://cbradiomagazine.com/March%202007/Power%20in%20Perspective.htm

 

Unless you mean 1:1.2 and 1:1.4 I would work on getting it down. 1:2 is on the high side of acceptable, and would not stray too far from center of the band @ 1:4 on the far ends.

 

Yeah, I was talking 1:1:2 and and 1:1:4.. Just a typo...

 

What he said. Also things like terrain and if skip is rolling play a role.

Case in point, this morning I was sitting at Onslow beach, N. Carolina talking to a guy on 27 AM reliably 30 miles from me in Moorehead City, N. Carolina on a barefoot Magnum 257HP that had a 10 watt carrier/75 watt modulation. I had a Wilson 1000 antenna on the roof. I don't know what the other guy had, but I'd guess he was mobile. The fact that there was nothing but an open ocean between us allowed for a great communication. Had there have been trees or hills, would have caused a barrier for such a long distance trip between two mobiles.

Another item that determines range is the antenna. A short 3-4 foot antenna is not a great antenna for anything but short distances of maybe 4 miles tops. A 5 foot whip is even better, but a 102 whip trumps all of them. (I've talked 14 miles barefoot on a 102 whip and a 4 watt AM Cobra) Most can't/don't want to run a 102. Moral of the story is the antenna is the heart and soul of any CB transceiver, and will make or break any radio. Good coax is a close runner up.