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Well part of the problem has been solved; the tractor when sitting still has about 11.8-12.4v available and when the tractor is started it jumps to around 13.1-13.6 and that was plenty to drive the radio. I would need to run direct to the battery if I wanted to run while sitting still, but our company wont let us. It performed pretty well until I got out on the road after 10 miles or so my buddy said it sounded garbled and words sounded slurred. The coax may have come loose a little and when I screwed it on tighter it seemed to get better for a little while then back to the garbled words. The cheap coax the furnish us with is the thing rg-58 with the ends that are tapered and pointy. If I keep this tractor I will install a new coax with the gray covering with the solid ends. I have not put an echo board in this cobra 29 special edition chrome so I had my buddy compare my general lee against the cobra when it was running well. First off both had mic gain set at 12 o'clock(otherwise both would overmodulate) and he said the cobra sounded louder that the general lee with the echo off. If I turned the echo on the general Lee would win. Also one other thing I ran the same skythumper mic on both and my buddy who has had cb's for over 30 yrs said the cobra was louder; but the general was stronger with the echo. That is all for now.

<blockquote data-quote="Cityboy" data-source="post: 137486" data-attributes="member: 8486"><p>Well part of the problem has been solved; the tractor when sitting still has about 11.8-12.4v available and when the tractor is started it jumps to around 13.1-13.6 and that was plenty to drive the radio. I would need to run direct to the battery if I wanted to run while sitting still, but our company wont let us. It performed pretty well until I got out on the road after 10 miles or so my buddy said it sounded garbled and words sounded slurred. The coax may have come loose a little and when I screwed it on tighter it seemed to get better for a little while then back to the garbled words. The cheap coax the furnish us with is the thing rg-58 with the ends that are tapered and pointy. If I keep this tractor I will install a new coax with the gray covering with the solid ends. I have not put an echo board in this cobra 29 special edition chrome so I had my buddy compare my general lee against the cobra when it was running well. First off both had mic gain set at 12 o&#039;clock(otherwise both would overmodulate) and he said the cobra sounded louder that the general lee with the echo off. If I turned the echo on the general Lee would win. Also one other thing I ran the same skythumper mic on both and my buddy who has had cb&#039;s for over 30 yrs said the cobra was louder; but the general was stronger with the echo. That is all for now.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Cityboy, post: 137486, member: 8486"] Well part of the problem has been solved; the tractor when sitting still has about 11.8-12.4v available and when the tractor is started it jumps to around 13.1-13.6 and that was plenty to drive the radio. I would need to run direct to the battery if I wanted to run while sitting still, but our company wont let us. It performed pretty well until I got out on the road after 10 miles or so my buddy said it sounded garbled and words sounded slurred. The coax may have come loose a little and when I screwed it on tighter it seemed to get better for a little while then back to the garbled words. The cheap coax the furnish us with is the thing rg-58 with the ends that are tapered and pointy. If I keep this tractor I will install a new coax with the gray covering with the solid ends. I have not put an echo board in this cobra 29 special edition chrome so I had my buddy compare my general lee against the cobra when it was running well. First off both had mic gain set at 12 o'clock(otherwise both would overmodulate) and he said the cobra sounded louder that the general lee with the echo off. If I turned the echo on the general Lee would win. Also one other thing I ran the same skythumper mic on both and my buddy who has had cb's for over 30 yrs said the cobra was louder; but the general was stronger with the echo. That is all for now. [/QUOTE]

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