I posted this in the communication forum, but was hoping to get more responses here. So I was digging through some of my stuff, and found 2 of my old CD Radios. One is a President McKinley and the other is a Cobra 29GTL. I haven't hooked either up to see if they still work yet and don't know much about CB radios. Which one of these radios is a better unit?
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cobra 29GTL versus President McKinley
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scottsdale86
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I like the cobra better. I had the classic and it works well. Radios are only part of it. The antenna is the majority of performance. That and to get a decent peak and tune
Im using a 102ss whip. I know the President is a SSB/AM Radio but don't know anything else about it or whether or not its a good radio. The Cobra is great, I just want to install the better of the two. I have an SWR meter to tune the antenna but want to get info about the 2 radios first.
Best cage wrestling match EVER!!!
Actually, both radios are pretty good. They both suffer from being made after the makers actually started building radios that were legal.........
I had a Pace that was rated at 4 watts.........Put out a good solid 6 right out of the box, and by changing the final and adjusting the coupling between the driver and the final, you could key 25 all day long......
Not that I would do anything like that......
Unless one or the other has a feature you like more than the other, I'd try to find someone with a good dummy load and check the watts.
Neither one is going to be over legal, but I'll bet one or the other will be stronger.
Or, better yet, get a good antenna, mount them temporarily, and find someone on air a good distance off who is willing to give you a listen.
Then, try them back and forth.
Its not just power, modulation level and quality count for more than power at that level.
Power only starts making a difference when you get above 100 watts difference.
I built a compander back in high school. Compressor/expander. I could set the modulation level right at 100%, and it would amplify low sounds and roll off loud sounds so that it would give me 98-100% modulation without any clipping of the audio going in or over-driving of the signal.
People would talk to me with my 10 watts when they would ignore that buzzing garbled 1KW stacked 6s signal from down the street.
