Cobra 29 nw problem

There are several threads here at our site to help you possibly correctly tune the radio up so you can get a base reference for that radio...

Try a Search (Upper Right corner of your Monitor - see SEARCH with a Spyglass? Type in your search criteria there - look for Cobra 29 No Receive or Cobra 29 No Mod or Cobra 29 Mods - those words entered into the Forums search engine might turn up some leads for you...

You can try this link; a lot of participants in this one - was a fun thread...

https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/cobra-29-ltd-classic-not-transmit.228821/

Another Thread that may interest you...

https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/cobra-29-ltd-classic-no-rx-tx-help.253718/

Then Also - external to this site, is ...
http://www.cbtricks.com/radios/cobra/index.htm <<--Another place for Schematics and reference materials...

Scroll down that page that loads and look for 29NWST or 29WXST or even any of the 29's (LTD GTL - Classic, BT LX LE) might provide the information you need to get started...

https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/cobra-29-ltd-no-receive-from-speaker.247890/

https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/cobra-29-ltd-chrome-no-rx-sound.244897/

https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/cobra-29-lx-squelch-not-functioning.244095/

Do your research first, then decide.

You actually have several symptoms - and they can stem from assembly, poorly soldered or corroded works, onto a mis-tuned radio


So, yes, you're going to need to re-SEARCH to get your answers to your various problems - you may find tips and tricks along the way to help answer other questions you haven't even thought of yet....

To simply "want an answer" - we're giving it to you...

We don't have the radio in front of us, we are only able to help as much as we can - using the information provided to us by the person having the issues...

Good luck in your journey!

With an old radio and no idea about it's history a good factory alignment would go a long way. If it has all kinds of crazy mods and something has failed then it would be a challenge even for a good tech to resolve. Most techs hate getting a radio that has had ten sets of fingers inside it.

68kaiser said:

Was just hoping someone with knowledge would point in the right direction other than "do a search".

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Ok, so you can't find a message or thread that answers your question.

Ok...? There are over 1,000+ Messages and Replies about the MOST POPULAR AM-Only CB Radio out there.

So thank you - I just don't want the sites' 10+ Years of archives to be ignored and their efforts in help and tips, and tricks - for that chassis - from Channel LED displays, Squelch, Audio Mods - onto the MOSFET conversion methods - to be lost or ignored because their efforts also brought out other posters and EXPANDED the knowledge base from the participants adding their experiences onto the thread.

There's too many other people ahead of you, that got their answers and they left behind a trail of bread crumbs for others to follow.

IF you don't understand that approach, then I'm left wondering why you're acting this way towards someone whom is seeing in your first post, the following...

68kaiser said:

I have a cobra 29 nw ltd that I got at a flea market.. it has a few problems. Not sure if its been messed with yet or not.

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Cobra 29 Flea Market...Pops up with 28 THREADS of similar woes and issues...

"Not Sure if it's been Messed with or not..." - This is Dangerous territory, for the problems you are having in operation indicate there can be many different reasons for that. Then - on top of that, you haven't even opened the radio yet, - Thank you - but now we will have to see what is under that hood - that others before you - already have done.

• Additionally to know the fact that the radio is used, potentially abused, by another and they got out of that radio what they wanted and since it still (loose term) "worked" - sold it off to another unsuspecting buyer at a Flea market.

We've been down this path so many times with others that have suffered similar fates - we just can't help but get upset over someone whom is going down that same road, and we're trying to get them -Head them - off at the first exit and solve the problem before they run into the bumps, turns, flips and hurdles they're going to encounter because of the others before you have done the same thing.

Some good pictures of both sides of the board would go along way. Then we might have an idea of what you are dealing with. How much power does it put out? Sounds like it might be "swinging backwards"?

on the squelch it supposes to be all the way counter-clockwise unless you just want to set it to only brake on strong signal then you start moving it clockwise until the static goes away there is a pot in the radio for further adjustment the squelch is either on all the time or adjusted for preference best way i can make sense of it when you say if you move it 1/4 you loose receive hope this helps

68kaiser said:

one is the squelch knowb turns a 1/4 turn and kills all recieve. Nothing will get thru. I can live with this problem but would like to get it fixed.

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Here's a link to a thread that was just discussed recently. This may help.

https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/cobra-29-nw-squelch-issue.259565/#post-739770

3rd link in post #4 should have given you everything you needed to know to start tracing/fixing the problem.