77crewcab
1/2 ton status
I have finally gotten around to installing the cb stuff I have accumulated in the burb and have a couple questions.
Using a wilson 1000 mounted center of the roof about dead center over the middle row of seats. I ran the cable along the roof, down the passenger A-pillar and out from under the dash about where the ashtray is. Still have lots of extra coax so what do I do with it? Zip tie it in a roll up under the dash or what?
Second is the radios. I have a cobra 29 LTD Classic with a broken power plug I know nothing about. Ebay special for $25. The radio will work just the plastic power plug is broken and pushes into the case. Has some small disks tan in color and with the number F 103Z soldered to the case on one end and looks like it went to one of the terminals on the powerplug inside the case. What are these, should they be connected to something. and does this indicate the radio has been "worked". If not is there a way to tell if someone has done any work to the radio? With this radio the SWR meter on the face shows 1.2-1.5 range for 1, 19, 40.
Second radio is a Cobra 148 GTL ST, supposedly peaked and tuned. With doing nothing other than swapping it in place of the 29 LTD the 148 has swr readings of 1.5 on 1, 2 on 19 and about 2.5 on 40.
Just looking for basic cb functions and kinda like the simplicity of the 29 better. Is there a way to see if it has been worked on? Where can I get a new power plug for it? Is there a reason to use the 148 over the 29 when both appear to work equally well from what I can tell?
Using a wilson 1000 mounted center of the roof about dead center over the middle row of seats. I ran the cable along the roof, down the passenger A-pillar and out from under the dash about where the ashtray is. Still have lots of extra coax so what do I do with it? Zip tie it in a roll up under the dash or what?
Second is the radios. I have a cobra 29 LTD Classic with a broken power plug I know nothing about. Ebay special for $25. The radio will work just the plastic power plug is broken and pushes into the case. Has some small disks tan in color and with the number F 103Z soldered to the case on one end and looks like it went to one of the terminals on the powerplug inside the case. What are these, should they be connected to something. and does this indicate the radio has been "worked". If not is there a way to tell if someone has done any work to the radio? With this radio the SWR meter on the face shows 1.2-1.5 range for 1, 19, 40.
Second radio is a Cobra 148 GTL ST, supposedly peaked and tuned. With doing nothing other than swapping it in place of the 29 LTD the 148 has swr readings of 1.5 on 1, 2 on 19 and about 2.5 on 40.
Just looking for basic cb functions and kinda like the simplicity of the 29 better. Is there a way to see if it has been worked on? Where can I get a new power plug for it? Is there a reason to use the 148 over the 29 when both appear to work equally well from what I can tell?
