Re: CB radios - antennas

[jlandry@domain.elided (John A. Landry)]

The aliens commander decided Tom Mandera <tsm1@domain.elided> would make a
perfect specimen for dissection, and he yelled...

>I'm going to see about wiring the stock in-dash AM speaker to the CB
>before too long.. to make it easier to hear.

I did this with my Uniden PC76XLW and found the sound was actually *worse*
than the Uniden's built in speaker.  Hard to describe... it was just harder
to understand garbled transmissions.  A speaker that really kicks butt is
one I bought from Radio Shlock to use with my scanner.  With my CB, it's
like your listening to a cop yelling at you through a bull horn.  I haven't
mounted it in the truck yet, but I plan to.  They don't cost much and work
great.  I think the trick for best CB audio is to use a speaker which has a
focused frequency response output restricted to the range of the human
voice.  This way static and such is de-emphasized and speech is clarified.

>My biggest problem is - CB, or stereo? ;-) (if the stereo's cranked, I
>can't hear the CB)

I believe places like Copper sell devices which can be wired into the radio
to pot the stereo down when the CB breaks squelch.

John L.
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