cobra 75wxst pros??? cons???
12-07-2004, 08:23 AM
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cobra 75wxst pros??? cons???
just looking to get a cb, what are the pros cons of the 75? does the 18 fit perfectly below the cd player? i have that space available.
12-07-2004, 09:36 AM
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I have a 75wxst and love it.
I don't run a permanent antenna, so I needed a bit more access to the interface box than other folks do. I ended up mounting it at the base of the front of the passenger seat which lets me get to the antenna connector as well as the mic pigtail.
Operation wise, I've never had any complaints from people listening to me babble, and I don't have any complaints listening to them. One thing is that the mic/handset can get a bit heavy at the end of a long day, but it's not intolerable.
One big thumbs up comes from I once dropped the handset into a good sized mud puddle ("mud lake") and it stopped working. I opened it up, rinsed it out with clear water, shot some contact cleaner into the buttons and it's been fine for the last year.
Past that, you may want to run an external speaker (I don't), but that'll be the case with any small radio.
I don't run a permanent antenna, so I needed a bit more access to the interface box than other folks do. I ended up mounting it at the base of the front of the passenger seat which lets me get to the antenna connector as well as the mic pigtail.
Operation wise, I've never had any complaints from people listening to me babble, and I don't have any complaints listening to them. One thing is that the mic/handset can get a bit heavy at the end of a long day, but it's not intolerable.
One big thumbs up comes from I once dropped the handset into a good sized mud puddle ("mud lake") and it stopped working. I opened it up, rinsed it out with clear water, shot some contact cleaner into the buttons and it's been fine for the last year.
Past that, you may want to run an external speaker (I don't), but that'll be the case with any small radio.
12-07-2004, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Amir904
just looking to get a cb, what are the pros cons of the 75? does the 18 fit perfectly below the cd player? i have that space available.
cons: a little too bulky for my hands (i have medium sized hands); no PA feature (important to some, but not me)
12-07-2004, 10:20 AM
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i also have a mount on my tjm15, but im afraid of visibility, if the mount was on the other side, it would be perfect. since its an australian bumper, it IS on the other side for the right-hand aussie drivers.
12-07-2004, 11:41 AM
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You'd never know I had a CB if it wasn't for that meddling FireStik off my driver's side hood channel. IO used Chris' writeup from SoCal TTORA to do mine and since I never use the bottom compartment for anything in the center console it made perfect sense to me.
The only con I have for this CB is that the buttons don't light up at night so you just have to know where they are and what they do if you need to use them. It's not hard to know their location and the only one I ever bother with is switching from between weather and cb.
The only con I have for this CB is that the buttons don't light up at night so you just have to know where they are and what they do if you need to use them. It's not hard to know their location and the only one I ever bother with is switching from between weather and cb.
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