Recent content by Shadetree Mechanic

Welcome! The speaker Jack in the back where you plug in an external speaker can have problems. If you have a speaker, plug it in to see if you get sound. Also check the squelch, it got me good one time.

They would like to ban driving if they could.....

I used to have a job where I had to work out of the location they had in the city, three days a week. Several times I would see people driving down the interstate reading the newspaper. Literally newspaper opened up on the steering wheel and reading while doing 70 mph. Or women putting on makeup...

I am going to stick this here for a little while, but I can't leave it here.

Maybe it's looks like this: And it is the size of this:

Hopefully it does not resemble the Uniden 980 in any way. And hopefully it's not just the President version of the Ares 2.....

Rumor has it that President has a new Washington mobile radio in the works. https://simonthewizard.com/2024/05/06/monday-rumor-new-president/

I got some money saved up for this one. Any other info?

DX is dead here. Every once in a while someone is in the mud, but that's about it.

Try plugging a speaker into the PA and see if audio works? If so then maybe the mode selector switch needs to be cleaned? Here is some info on this radio: https://cbtricks.org/radios/cobra/18wx_st_ii/

I have an older version of this radio, and it has an electret condenser mic from the factory. Do you have the original mic for it?

Dumb joke for the day? The FCC......

@unit_399 put the site back up a while ago. https://unit399.wixsite.com/858ssb

If your signal is in the mud, and flipping the switch only give you 1/2 S unit, but gets you out of the mud, then that's worth something. Right? To quote one of my locals, "If you got it, run it!". But then people say that you should only run as much power as needed to make the contact. Ok...