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No, I have to get a mount myself, hopefully a local CB shop will have one.

My buddy's step dad just gave me the antenna that was connected to the CB he gave me and I wanted to know if it's worth using or getting a different antenna. I'll post some pics but I have a feeling it wont be of the best quality since the high gears I did find sucked. I put a can of soda next...

Thank you for the help everyone, I hope this will get me started and when I go get the antenna I will be able to get more involved.

With my current AS antenna I have reached out approximately 2 miles. My basis for this is I5 is about 1.5 miles from my house, but for all I know the trucker wasn't located at the closest position to my house on I5 so he could have been farther or closer away from me. Now he could have been on...

Is the 5000 more efficient than the 1000?

When using SSB can you hear/talk to people using AM aswell or is it a completely different ball game? If they are different and considering less CB's come with SSB, does that mean I will have less people to talk to? EDIT: Is antenna in the picture one of their less known antenna's? If so...

The SBE is a 40 channel side mic with LSB, AM (obviously AM), and USB. I tried looking on the back to see date of manufacture but couldn't find it because of the position of the radio installed under my dash. I heard that side mic CB's aren't manufactured anymore and that a lot of the newer...

I get paid this Friday and will try to purchase the antenna this paycheck or my next one. After that I'll come to you guys to help tune it. Would I experience better performance with my SBE Land Command mobile CB or the Cobra 29? The SBE radio is an LCMS-4

1) So if I purchase a Wilson 5000 antenna, are there tuning knobs of some sort built in or do I need to find a different way of getting a good SWR reading? 2) Thankyou, I understand this 3) So what applications does Dead keying have since it doesn't apply your voice to the signal? 4) How much...

I'll start with SWR then considering I will get an antenna for the Cobra within the time frame of my next two pay days. How do you achieve a good, but legitimate, SWR rating without tricking the meter?

Are there any basic electronic CB books because most electronic books probably wont have information necessary to use/tune/work on your own CB, or explain things like SWR or Q rating among other things.

I am extremely new to CB's and would like to have several things cleared up. I will admit though when I first came into this ,because of a whim to install a CB onto my truck, I did not realize how technical some of this gets, let along the sheer amount of things related to CB's. Side note: I...

Today I got an approx. 5 year old Cobra 29 WX NW ST SoundTracker for free because my buddies dad threw it out since he's installing a new in his semi soon. As he did throw it out I'm not sure if it works and I'll have to ask tomorrow after he gets off work, but I'm wondering how good of a steal...

Thank you for the reply, is there a specific brand that would do better than most, or even a specific model? I have heard of Wilson but I know there are other brands out there.

A while back I got a CB from a garage sale for 5 bucks but it's practically from when CB's first came out so it isn't exactly the best. Well my buddy's dad is getting a new CB for his Semi and threw out his old one so I snagged it, a Cobra 29 WX NW ST soundtracker, but I'm not sure if it works...

there's a few base stations around me that I can hear very clearly and I live about 2 miles from the highway and there's only a small portion of the highway is open enough to get a signal to my house. Once I get my truck fixed (tranny problems) one of the first things I'm gonna do is go on the...

I got everything hooked up and I can hear people clearly, I just need a better antenna and I'm set.

Well we got both the hand-held, the mobile CB and both antenna's for 5 buck. The guy at the garage sale just had his brother pass away so he was selling some of his stuff, and the radio was in his brothers truck so he sold it from what I was told. I'm going to hook the CB up in a few hours...

On the back it says 40 channels. Apparently when my step dad went to the garage sale the guy pulled the Radio right out of the truck, should it already be tuned then? I also found out he bought a hand held CB so that's what the second antenna is for in the picture. The brand on the hand-held...

Sweet, thanks for letting me know. I don't know exactly how to hook it up, but my step dad's brother knows CB's and he lives like 15 mins away, I'll have him do it. I'm uploading pics to my email, will post in a few minutes. :thumbup: Also is came with an antenna and the logo says "AS" as...