well i bought a Cobra CB and a PA speaker, got it all mounted and wired today, took about an hour haha IM GONNA HAVE FUN W/ THE PA LOL! just thought i'd tell yall

 

don't forget.........when your stuck in traffic on the interstate , put it on ch 19 and let the info roll in.

 

Back in the 70's I had one in my 74 Olds Cutlas and mounted the PA speaker behind the grill. Had a lot of fun with that PA speaker.

 

hey, I have the same plans for my truck, thought I would be the only one, lol

 

i still have no idea h ow to "tune the antenna". i can hear the truckers talking. .kinda. i havent gotten any replies to my talking though. maybe its the antenna or they dont wanna talk to me? any helpful info would be appreciated. i heard u had to have some type of meter or something to tune the CB antenna

 

buy an SWR meter and follow directions or take it to a cb shop on the highway and have them do it.

 

The SWR meter is screwed in linebetween the antenna lead and the CB radio. Then it is a matter of adjusting the height of the antenna to get the highest output reading on the meter.

My first Cobra CB did not put out the maximum wattage allowed (also measured by the SWR meter) so I took it back to the store and their repair guy opened up the radio and made some adjustments. After that it put out more than allowed and I was a happy camper.

 

how did you wire the p.a. speaker? i just bought a cb from wally world and a speaker from radio shack, but i cant figure out how to wire the speaker into the radio

 

haha thats great, I love my PA speaker!! so funny on late nights!

 

I had a CB about 10 years ago in my truck and even then people were switching over to cell phones. I can't imagine many people are using them these days???

 

The CB has to have the capability to use the PA, if you don't have a PA switch or jack on the back of the CB you can't use it.

 

it does have the PA. but my speaker didnt come with a 3.5mm jack on the end of the wires. so i went to radio shack and bought one. im gonna try to hook it up tmorrow

 

Better than any radar detector....

 

Show pics of where u mounted the CB.

 

I was actually thinking of picking one up just to have fun with, the walmart near me has some Cobra unit for like $40. My house is right on a semi-major highway so there's tons of trucks going by every day. I was going to swipe the Motorola set out of my grandparent's Buick but one the relatives totaled the car before I got a chance to go down there again.

Do they come with an antenna? I'd think so, you can't use it without one. Cell phones are nice but when you think about it they're pretty limited. You can only talk to people you "know" more or less and they don't work everywhere. CB lets you strike up conversation whenever with some bored trucker(my grandfather used to do this all the time when I was a kid, we'd just drive around and we'd start yakking into the handset with some random trucker)

How would I mount one in my truck? A '93 F-150 XLT Supercab? I guess t could go on the ceiling but then I'd have to run the wires somewhere. On the dash would be easier I suppose.

Where does the antenna go? In my grandfather's Buick Century or something the antenna was just one really long wire that went along the firewall, tucked under carpets and trim, and into the trunk where it was kinda then spread around the walls of the trunk and it seemed to work well enough.