You can now help support WorldwideDX when you shop on Amazon at no additional cost to you! Simply follow this Shop on Amazon link first and a portion of any purchase is sent to WorldwideDX to help with site costs.
The Feb 2025 Radioddity Giveaway Results are In! Click Here to see who won!

Reply to thread

Message

Okay, I used one of the working Cobra 19 radios connected to a 4-1/2-foot fiberglass Wilson Silverload antenna; the radios were side-by-side on the bench, maybe three inches between them; the antennas were about two foot apart.

I could not see any meter movement on the bad radio when keying the mike on the working radio.
However, when I talked into the working radio/mike, although the needle never moved, the meter's back-light very obviously dimmed; when I was not talking, it would immediately brighten; when I talked it dimmed; so there is a wee bit of signal acknowledgement.

While I was nosing around under the hood of the disabled radio, I found the date "April 2008" in two separate places.
I bought this radio new-in-box some time in 2014, six years after manufacture.

[QUOTE="BuckSkin, post: 605500, member: 50916"] Okay, I used one of the working Cobra 19 radios connected to a 4-1/2-foot fiberglass Wilson Silverload antenna; the radios were side-by-side on the bench, maybe three inches between them; the antennas were about two foot apart. I could not see any meter movement on the bad radio when keying the mike on the working radio. However, when I talked into the working radio/mike, although the needle never moved, the meter's back-light very obviously dimmed; when I was not talking, it would immediately brighten; when I talked it dimmed; so there is a wee bit of signal acknowledgement. While I was nosing around under the hood of the disabled radio, I found the date "April 2008" in two separate places. I bought this radio new-in-box some time in 2014, six years after manufacture. [/QUOTE]

Top Bottom