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Cobra 25 vs. uniden 78

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well, my bubble isnt busted. maybe you have higher standards than I do. I have been fairly happy with the rx in most of my cb's. I mentioned cb's, but the best rx overall I have had was a magnum s9.
 
Maybe cb receive is in the ears of the beholders ? (-: best receive I've ever heard on any radio was from cybernet boards which were basically old school Midlands and G.E's (and at the same time I've heard guys call them crap,go figure ?) Also older 148GTLs and the Grant XLs. as far IM concerned ,the older 25s had great and or good enough receive for my ear holes. I think after a few 100 radios in my time that I could tell a differents. (-: ..this reminds me of a perticular radio , the PC-122s were very nice (decent) little back pocket AM/SSB radios,excellent transmit but always felt the receive on those could have been better , I always felt the SSB side of receive was better then the AM side on those, even though it was still good enough , I've had many of those over the years and the AM side receive just kind of sounded lightly conjested to my ears. .........Now lets talk about ANL/NB's on some of these radios....(Uniden boards for the most part) Cobra 29's / Cobra 148's / Grant XLs .YES !! they all have good receive sections in them , but I have never ever been fond of there ANL/NBs ,they are usually on a 3 step switch up and down , I have found over the years for them to act more like RF gains then not !!(watch your meters needle as you ingage each blanker and listen to quility of the incoming receive as you do this compared to with them off) , Yes they will take out the noise if need be ,but they will also distort in incoming receive as well and they have a way of making folks sound bad and or not true. For me , some radios tend to make better base stations then they do mobiles. )-: I honestly can't speak for newer 25s or 68s , but the older 25s basically have built in ANLs , they do have a NB switch on them that most folks seem to think they don't work and that's far from the truth...they really do !! they cut certain crap out that you would here if they weren't on from time to time (the auto-anl takes care of the rest) The boards on those radios or some variation of them have been around for 30 years , It made a lot of money for Uniden and it has proved itself as a very realiable radio , 30 years is a long time not to change a whole hell of lot when it comes to a radio. The Cobra 25 LTD's are a very reliable AM only radios period . And I can personally swear by there ANL/NBs as being one of the best if not the best.
 
many years ago i had not realised how recieve could be so different on radios (meaning so much better then average radios)

as far as " CB's " i still think the older Cobra 146GTL (didnt like the 148gtl and supposedly they used the same board)

best radio ever base or mobil
so far for me is the Icom IC-7000
though i have not tried the higher Pro 3 or IC-7800
 
as far as " CB's " i still think the older Cobra 146GTL (didnt like the 148gtl and supposedly they used the same board)

is not the same board.

and your Icom is not a cb radio. But I surely understand what you mean.
 
if it has talkback, and doesnt have a switch dont go power mic, unless its the extream 2018, then you would also have echo. and by all means dont go dm452

otherwise go rk56
 
I think it's interesting how folks comment on what to use and what not to use.(It's basically what works for them and there radios) Radios are different / peoples voices are different / radios are tuned differently in many cases / theres a lot of variables there. I realize that most of us are just trying to help here all the same. (-: All the mic's mentioned here are good decent mic's but not all will sound good on any radio with any persons voice charectoristic's or radio tune , it almost can become a poke and hope situation , a roll of the dice if you will , one things for sure (in many cases) if all else fails , the stock mic's will work. (-: And I must add , the DM-452s for the price ,are damned good mic's anyway I look at it !! And I also believe they will work on "any" radio any way that it's been tuned !! Why ? You can adjust them from the 2 pots inside of them for just what one would need. For a basically 20.00 mic , I don't think there's anything better out there at that price. Maybe the Astatic echo board ,but that's a slightly different cup of tea.
 
well like switch said, diff folks have different results. both those mics (dm-452 and sra-158) worked great for me, sounds good in my talkback and sounded good on the other side, so thats why I suggested them.
 
Well, the reason i am asking is i don't have anyone around me with a diff. mic (other than stock). And i can't tell if there is anyone talking back to me with a different mic. So i really don't know which one the get. My cb is in my z-71 so there is not much background noise. And i have a amp on it, so i don't know if i need the power mic, but i would like to have a good mic. I have heard truckers say get the rk-56 but then some say i don't need the noise cancelling. That is why i was leaning towards the astatic.

But on another note, i hooked up the Uniden 78 elite. And when i speak into the mic it sounds like a little static or echoing vibration coming back through the speaker on the cb. Could this be in my cobra mic?
 
could be the radio has talkback resistor in it ? if you can key the mic and put it right up to the speaker and it squeals , chances are you have a talkback resitosr in the radio , it can easily be removed or cut out ....if that might be the case ?
 

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