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I'm glad you figured this out. I was going to say it sounded like a problem with the RX/TX switching but since I don't know enough about the Cobra design to offer any useful hints beyond that obvious point, I decided to just save my breath until somebody smarter spoke up. Looks like someone did.

One thing though: the original Cobra 148, Cobra 142 and Cobra 2000 all had the same 5-pin mic connector. It's the newer (Chinese made) Cobra 148s that have 4 pin connector, and it's on the front panel instead of on the left side. I used to own an older 148 in the mid/late 80s and currently have one of the Chinese ones. There's no comparison in terms of quality.

-Bill

<blockquote data-quote="unit248" data-source="post: 370700" data-attributes="member: 15994">I&#039;m glad you figured this out. I was going to say it sounded like a problem with the RX/TX switching but since I don&#039;t know enough about the Cobra design to offer any useful hints beyond that obvious point, I decided to just save my breath until somebody smarter spoke up. Looks like someone did. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />One thing though: the original Cobra 148, Cobra 142 and Cobra 2000 all had the same 5-pin mic connector. It&#039;s the newer (Chinese made) Cobra 148s that have&nbsp; 4 pin connector, and it&#039;s on the front panel instead of on the left side. I used to own an older 148 in the mid/late 80s and currently have one of the Chinese ones. There&#039;s no comparison in terms of quality.-Bill</blockquote>

[QUOTE="unit248, post: 370700, member: 15994"] I'm glad you figured this out. I was going to say it sounded like a problem with the RX/TX switching but since I don't know enough about the Cobra design to offer any useful hints beyond that obvious point, I decided to just save my breath until somebody smarter spoke up. Looks like someone did. :) One thing though: the original Cobra 148, Cobra 142 and Cobra 2000 all had the same 5-pin mic connector. It's the newer (Chinese made) Cobra 148s that have 4 pin connector, and it's on the front panel instead of on the left side. I used to own an older 148 in the mid/late 80s and currently have one of the Chinese ones. There's no comparison in terms of quality. -Bill [/QUOTE]

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