Well folks, I went over and saw it for myself. On Saturday night, I went over to FGBestCommunications in Ontario, CA.
When he started, Frank asked me if I wanted to see one of the 5 new Cobra 29's he had for sale on the shelf that were already done up. I decided to look at that later, but instead had him pull one out of the box that was still sealed up from the factory. I watched him work on it for a bit while he changed the final, the driver, and a bunch of other stuff. (They can post the details if they're so inclined). At the end, he did a full TX & RX alignment and put it on his Bird 43P. He got a full 48 watts out of it. Justin came over, said "gimme that" and proceeded to change a few more things and ended up with 51 watts on the Bird 43P.
It's a little hard to see, but here's a video clip that shows it doing 51 watts on a Bird 43P. He's got a 50 watt slug in there; note the needle pegged all the way to the right.
Then he put it on his HP analyzer (which still has the calibration sticker on the back) and it showed 53 watts. Here's a clip of that The numbers in the middle on the left are peak watts.
I also took a shot of it reading AVG power. This is on a Bird 4410.
You can't see the slug in the pic, but if I remember right, the meter shows 21 watts AVG.
Lastly, here's a vid clip of the Cobra 29 performing a spectral analysis, demonstrating that they didn't just turn it into a splatter box.
Keep in mind that all this was done without yanking the limiter or volting the final. I was impressed.....Now I WANT one! <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT="">
Moleculo
</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p067.ezboard.com/bworldwidecbradioclub.showUserPublicProfile?gid=moleculocdx363>MoleculoCDX363</A> at: 5/4/04 3:12 pm
When he started, Frank asked me if I wanted to see one of the 5 new Cobra 29's he had for sale on the shelf that were already done up. I decided to look at that later, but instead had him pull one out of the box that was still sealed up from the factory. I watched him work on it for a bit while he changed the final, the driver, and a bunch of other stuff. (They can post the details if they're so inclined). At the end, he did a full TX & RX alignment and put it on his Bird 43P. He got a full 48 watts out of it. Justin came over, said "gimme that" and proceeded to change a few more things and ended up with 51 watts on the Bird 43P.
It's a little hard to see, but here's a video clip that shows it doing 51 watts on a Bird 43P. He's got a 50 watt slug in there; note the needle pegged all the way to the right.
Then he put it on his HP analyzer (which still has the calibration sticker on the back) and it showed 53 watts. Here's a clip of that The numbers in the middle on the left are peak watts.
I also took a shot of it reading AVG power. This is on a Bird 4410.
You can't see the slug in the pic, but if I remember right, the meter shows 21 watts AVG.
Lastly, here's a vid clip of the Cobra 29 performing a spectral analysis, demonstrating that they didn't just turn it into a splatter box.
Keep in mind that all this was done without yanking the limiter or volting the final. I was impressed.....Now I WANT one! <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT="">
Moleculo
</p>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p067.ezboard.com/bworldwidecbradioclub.showUserPublicProfile?gid=moleculocdx363>MoleculoCDX363</A> at: 5/4/04 3:12 pm