Recent content by boxcar112

Hello I was wondering if anyone knows anything on this new mirage radio I been out of the cb hobby for awhile now and just woke up one day saying to myself I miss the hobby I have a cobra 25 ltd classic with a 4 pill amp in my mobile with a big bubba 1200 made by valor made like and performs...

Hello I was wondering if some one could tell me if the new rci 2950dx has the same clarifier mod as the older 2950dx cause I do not know if they have different pcbs I hate a locked clarifier on ssb cause every body doesnt talk on the same frequency.

My cb tech knows what hes doing I know alot of people who bought radios from him and never had a problem he made every thing good when I took the 2970n2 back to him ranger just needs to get rid of those junky mosfets and stick with 2sc2290s are 2sc2879s in there high output radios cause the...

It was tuned right and when it started smoking I was only running a 100 watts if that I had the rf power turned down I like rci radios i've owned alot of them over the years but ranger needs to go back to the drawing board on this one.

Hello fellow cbers I just wanted to give you guys a heads up on the new rci 2970n2 stay away from them they are junk I bought a new 1 a week ago had it peaked on am for 6 watts low power dead key and 70 high power dead key and 230 watts ssb I was talking to the ever green state today on 27.4250...

Well I mounted the wilson 2000 trucker to the bed i'm not happy with its performance so i'm going back to the cb shop in the morning and getting a new wilson 1000 magnet mount thanks for the advice every body 73s from sidekick 112 in southern illinois.

My magnet came in today to mount my wilson 2000 trucker the magnet and coax looked cheap made so I went to a local truck stop and bought a bracket and coax to mount it on the bed I hope it works good no more magnet mounts for me.

Hello I have a wilson 2000 trucker 5 inch shaft that a friend gave to me I purchased a solarcon mag-518 5 inch magnet it says all internall connections are solderedn on different web sites to mount it on the cab of my ford ranger any ideals on how good it would perform or should I just wait and...

I was wondering what antenna tuner to buy to tune a g5rv i've heard mfj's ain't to good I been looking at a ldg at200 pro any suggestions?

Hello I was wondering if any body could tell me where I can find some replacement knobs for a kenwoods ts450s my knobs on mine still work there is a couple that got a little loose feel when you turn them.

I had a question I for got to ask in my last reply can some one tell me where I might be able to find some parts for a kenwood ts450s.You know how knobs get a little loose feeling when you turn them after years of operations well I have a few knobs on mine that got a little loose feel to them...

Thanks for some advice guys I looked at the mfj 962d and it's only about 70 dollars more than the ldg at200 pro i'll think the mfj 962d will do the trick for me like that one guy said it will hold a amplifier when I decide to add one later.The amplifier i'm looking at to purchase later in the...

Hello i'm new to this hf ham stuff I was wondering could some body help me out on telling me which antenna tuner would be better a manual or automatic one.The tuners i'm looking at are a mfj 948 and a ldg at200 pro.The tranciever I will be useing is a kenwood ts450s and the antenna I will be...

I'm just letting some ppl know from experience that the so called radio tech at sparkys doesn't know what he is doing.Shure I could have brought the 2950dx I bought from sparkys to a real tech and had it fixed but why should a brand new radio have to be taken to a shop and get ligned out.I was...

Guttapercha there is alot of ppl will sell a bone stock 2950dx when I have stuff worked on I wanna be there at the shop watching the tech do the work I just don't trust to many ppl working on my radios the reason why is because there is alot of so called cb shops out there now days that should...