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Going by this, Copper is stealing $50 from your pocket by playing the "if we can't do it nobody will" game.
Yes, I do realize Ebay is separated from reality.
I bought a CA2X4SR based on recommendations from the good Captain and a few others here. I must say, it is a performer, and the only antenna on my truck that doesn't whip around like a happy dogs tail in the freezing fog. Not super tall, and I can easily nail 2 meter repeaters at 75+ miles...
Yeah, sure, if you want to do it that way. Some guys open a shop with nothing more than a screwdriver, a pair of diagonal cutters, and a knack for bullshitting.
The K9KAO club page will do it to you as well. Seen a few things I thought about responding to, on Tapatalk it wont even give you the option to reply, and on the regular site, it gives you that message.
How to speak CB shop: Lesson 24.
"A Cobra can be tuned to higher outputs than Galaxys"
This statement given by a CB shop should be interpreted as "I can get more dosy watts from a Cobra because I'm not that knowledgeable with Galaxy radios."
4 watts is your FCC approved legal "dead key".
You're not making too much out of this, you should be getting alot more than a 6 watt swing. 4 swinging to 16 is factory tune levels. (If the factory bothered to tune it right before they crammed it in a box and shipped it out to the nearest golden...
One more thing to add. Factory coax is almost always 75 ohm coax. They install a cophased antenna system from the factory. It's a good idea to always run new coax in a truck.
Your antenna needs an RF ground, not an electrical ground. A piece of flat strap copper braid run from the antenna mount...
Modern car stereos draw the bulk of their current off of the memory wire, the battery lead. They use the switched lead as nothing more than a signal to turn the radio on. I would think however that the memory alone would draw a minute amount of amps.
The problem you will face is switching...
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