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NRC: Reviews of radios so equipped aren’t by those for whom Citizen Band is central to their daily welfare. Income potential changes daily for professional drivers, and risk is ever-present. This pairing is why you’ll see me uphold clarity as the path to success. Reviewers will skip over this...

cbradiomagazine reviews: This review is thorough. Months of use, mobile & base. Excellent intro to this type of radio. NRC explained well, but, again, no note of how it can pull the other mobile rig out of the noise background. The typically poor mobile to be heard across the country. This...

My budget has been too constrained by vehicle repairs to continue several radio projects at present. http://forums.radioreference.com/threads/antenna-feedpoint-coax-choke.465465/ At radio end used @prcguy recommendation of: https://myantennas.com/wp/product/cmc-130s-3k/ Plus Toroid wound...

SWR set is nothing out of the ordinary past menu function SWR protection (against damage from being too high; adjustable). https://radioddity.s3.amazonaws.com/Radioddity_QT60_User_Mannual_20230906.pdf https://strykerradios.com/blog/cb-antenna-tuning-a-step-by-step-guide/ An antenna analyzer...

I wouldn’t wish to give up SSB, but there’s all kinds of places to install a small integrated NRC-spec CB radio. Cover with fabric, etc. https://www.radioddity.com/products/radioddity-cb-500 http://forums.radioreference.com/threads/radioddity-cb500-110-w-nrc.469930/ An NMO-27 antenna in roof...

They got a ways to go afore they catch up to Grampa

RadiOddity Q60. Same as Q5/N2.

My ex threatened divorce running a Signal Engineering GR45 on the roof of her Cherokee. But she then found it as funny as me that traffic parted ways in the months after 9/11. I haven’t tuned the Cowtown Antenna Predator10k K-1-27 to my pickup roof yet, but it’ll be a contender. A quarter-wave...

Don’t discount tongue-in-cheek for what’s occasionally seen. If it’s funny as hell, but works, it’s a winner. I swear, my second retirement job is going to be making the goofiest looking antennas I can in my garage and selling them to the ham/CB crowd with grandiose claims about "10dB gain"...

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When I get passed by the latter while thundering down the road in the former and we both key up, you can bet EVERYONE wants to know about the antenna once they’re corrected, that, it ain’t the radio. Power is overrated. Clarity is King. 1989 = A Ranger and a Wilson. 2024 = A President...

Radio is fine, but not when connected to antenna itself mounted on the vehicle? If coax gets pinched hard - once - it may not ever again work well. If coax is loose at its antenna connection, the system will not work well. Coax is where I’d be looking. Excellent antenna choice (gave one to...

No, it’s a couple dozen, overall, on AM-19. They’ll go elsewhere as well. 19 is what counts. The others one can hear can’t really blank local. Try an FM CB equipped with CTCSS/DCS codes. This will block the degenerates. With 19 as hailing channel, almost any other channel works. FM, not many...

That’s about a 5’ antenna. Quarter wave is 9’. If can rig latter on temp basis, that’d be more meaningful. https://www.k0bg.com/antmount.html

Substitute Skip for War. It can be a bear. Think of SSB as where it’s fun try for long-distance contacts. Or extending local radius. Was leaving ABQ one morning up into the Sandia Mtns on IH40. One of my fellows back in town still getting unloaded. We were fine on AM till about 9-miles...

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Until he has to open hood. Alongside the hood is terrible. Gets out across the road, not down or up the road. Atop bumper is easier to remove. And spring + whip is plenty strong. https://breedlovemounts.com/store/ols/products/cb-ball-mount-with-so-239-connection-on-3-inch-plates...

No-Alox for many years, now a container of Penetrox. https://skygeek.com/burndy-p8a-penetrox-pen-vi-oxide-inhibiting-compound-8-oz.html Still needs regular service. Same with DC Grounds and RF Bonds. The felts chief advantage is easier ID of Pos/Neg (a good thing).