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Recent content by Soldaun

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    Cobra Highgear

    No, I have to get a mount myself, hopefully a local CB shop will have one.
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    Cobra Highgear

    My buddy's step dad just gave me the antenna that was connected to the CB he gave me and I wanted to know if it's worth using or getting a different antenna. I'll post some pics but I have a feeling it wont be of the best quality since the high gears I did find sucked. I put a can of soda next...
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    Confusions about CB's...

    Thank you for the help everyone, I hope this will get me started and when I go get the antenna I will be able to get more involved.
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    Confusions about CB's...

    With my current AS antenna I have reached out approximately 2 miles. My basis for this is I5 is about 1.5 miles from my house, but for all I know the trucker wasn't located at the closest position to my house on I5 so he could have been farther or closer away from me. Now he could have been on...
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    Confusions about CB's...

    Is the 5000 more efficient than the 1000?
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    Confusions about CB's...

    When using SSB can you hear/talk to people using AM aswell or is it a completely different ball game? If they are different and considering less CB's come with SSB, does that mean I will have less people to talk to? EDIT: Is antenna in the picture one of their less known antenna's? If so...
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    Confusions about CB's...

    The SBE is a 40 channel side mic with LSB, AM (obviously AM), and USB. I tried looking on the back to see date of manufacture but couldn't find it because of the position of the radio installed under my dash. I heard that side mic CB's aren't manufactured anymore and that a lot of the newer...
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    Confusions about CB's...

    I get paid this Friday and will try to purchase the antenna this paycheck or my next one. After that I'll come to you guys to help tune it. Would I experience better performance with my SBE Land Command mobile CB or the Cobra 29? The SBE radio is an LCMS-4
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    Confusions about CB's...

    1) So if I purchase a Wilson 5000 antenna, are there tuning knobs of some sort built in or do I need to find a different way of getting a good SWR reading? 2) Thankyou, I understand this 3) So what applications does Dead keying have since it doesn't apply your voice to the signal? 4) How much...
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    Confusions about CB's...

    I'll start with SWR then considering I will get an antenna for the Cobra within the time frame of my next two pay days. How do you achieve a good, but legitimate, SWR rating without tricking the meter?
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    Confusions about CB's...

    Are there any basic electronic CB books because most electronic books probably wont have information necessary to use/tune/work on your own CB, or explain things like SWR or Q rating among other things.
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    Confusions about CB's...

    I am extremely new to CB's and would like to have several things cleared up. I will admit though when I first came into this ,because of a whim to install a CB onto my truck, I did not realize how technical some of this gets, let along the sheer amount of things related to CB's. Side note: I...
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    Cobra 29WX

    Today I got an approx. 5 year old Cobra 29 WX NW ST SoundTracker for free because my buddies dad threw it out since he's installing a new in his semi soon. As he did throw it out I'm not sure if it works and I'll have to ask tomorrow after he gets off work, but I'm wondering how good of a steal...
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    Center load VS. Base Load?

    Thank you for the reply, is there a specific brand that would do better than most, or even a specific model? I have heard of Wilson but I know there are other brands out there.
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    Center load VS. Base Load?

    A while back I got a CB from a garage sale for 5 bucks but it's practically from when CB's first came out so it isn't exactly the best. Well my buddy's dad is getting a new CB for his Semi and threw out his old one so I snagged it, a Cobra 29 WX NW ST soundtracker, but I'm not sure if it works...