blairandgretchen
Suffering a midwife crisis
Yes, up to and including spares to carry for when THEIR radios take a dump.
Road king or cobra
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Shogun Warrior
Loaded like a freight train flyin like an airplane
This is the radio Ruthless bought, a cobra 29 with an AD203 stinger board doing almost 90 watts, a ranger echo board installed and a receive kit upgrade all done by my friend. He is using a cheap superstar mic to test out the quality.
I'm not suggesting you do likewise, just demonstrating my friends work. He's been doing it for 30 years and was my lieutenant. Listen at 124 for the transmit on air.
Switchblade is my amp builder about 30 miles from me on channel 6 (where the biggest radios compete) talking to BBI in idaho probably 2500 miles or better. My friend tunes his radios so you can hear the clarity there too. Switchblade runs tens of thousands of watts and can build you whatever you want.
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mndriver
curmudgeon extraordinare
Shogun Warrior
Loaded like a freight train flyin like an airplane
At his power levels, it's probably milspec RG 213 or stronger and he runs a ground plane antenna. I don't remember exactly which brand.
His mobile is equally impressive with 9 alternators in a suburban and full of batteries. There are some guys in this area running 25kw in their vehicles.
TruckerRon
Active Member
The Road King CB is a Waste of money! I bought their top of the line model and it didn't even last me 6 months before it crapped out. Then try and get a hold of them for warranty... yeah right! I recommend you get a President. Their CB's are really the only good ones for the money. Most CB's today are made by the same 4 companies. Uniden makes a lot of them for other brand name companies. If you want a Monster of a CB, go for the Stryker 955. This one offers SSB, as well. Get it from your favorite CB shop!
OR
A good basic am/fm radio:
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A good basic am/fm radio:
Stryker SR-497HPC
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You bought many radios from this place?
Electric Chicken
Well-Known Member
Kinds disappointed in my Uniden. Performance seems fine but the LCDs are too dim.
TruckerRon
Active Member
One, Why?
If you don't like the place, shop elsewhere.
EDIT: Ok... for those of you who dislike Bell's... Post Edited and recommendation of radios still stands.
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I was asking to see what your experience was with the place. No need to get offended.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
Is there no way to make it brighter? I know some of them with blue back lighting will blind you in the night.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
That was some pretty cool banter back and forth, The kind of stuff that would keep drivers awake driving down the road and making them laugh back in the day.Some people just have a real cool way of talking on the radio like you guys do.
TruckerRon
Active Member
Well, I've heard of people complaining about Bell's in the past. So, I figured you knew of this and were not happy with my recommendation. Anyway, This guy at the Fine Tuned CB Shop seems to know his stuff, as well.
Nah, I was actually going down the rabbit hole of CB radio research when you brought up this shop. Getting a new truck, and deciding whether I am going to get a new radio for it. I mean, I am going to get one, but not sure if I want to spend any money on it or not.
TruckerRon
Active Member
The 497 Stryker is a great basic radio that doesn't cost an arm and a leg for great receive and transmit power- Remember... Ya get what ya pay for! If you buy crap, it tends to not get used. Just saying...
Being a new Cascadia, if I go much more than a simply Cobra29, I'm likely to have to start off with a compeltely new coax and antenna. Not sure I want to get that deep into it. Really not sure what the antenna quality is on the new truck.
mndriver
curmudgeon extraordinare
The entire system is not designed for performance. What with the duplexers and all they put into them with crap coax
Shreck
Well-Known Member
If it’s the same as what Walmart specs it will be junk with the antennae’s on the back of the bunk.A lot of us that still want to use a radio stop at a local guys c b shop and have them run a good coax and antenna outside in to the mirror arm.
Yep, that's why I am thinking most likely a simple Cobra29, tuned, and be done with it for now. I would want to run good wiring, coax, and antenna if I were to go to anything big. Don't see enough activity to warrant that.
yeah, thinking about doing that, or running it out to the back of the cab.
Not sure how motivated I am for all of that though.
Shreck
Well-Known Member
If you don’t spend the money for the new coax and antenna you might as we not spend the money on a new radio.
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