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I'm very disappointed with this radio. This is really dissapointing.The microphone gain is poor and the clarifier is very sensitive and twitchy. I have PC122's and they drift a lot but this cobra is ridicules. You are on your own. The new cobra is made in China the one I have really drifts a lot. It is very sensitive to temperature. Cobra 148 GTL 27Mhz sideband Radio. Cobra warranty in Australia is useless.
Purchase something else. I sent the unit for repair locally and it has cost me aprox $100 all up freight included to get the brand new unit repaired and retuned back to me. Cobra is not what it used to be. On arrival it had a microphone fault, muffled audio as well as weak signal and poor transmission. I love my radios and have a lot of them, but this new Cobra's is nothing like the old Cobra's. JUBEES Enterprises did not want anything to do with me once I reported the unit faulty on arrival.
I purchased it from JUBEES Enterprises and it was faulty on arrival. It was 3W on AM and about 9W on SSB upper & lower and it was out of tune. There are better radios out there. Very disappointed.
Years ago I had two similar radios - also made by COBRA. So far this radio performs as well, if not better, than the others. They performed flawlessly for the 7 years I owned them. I used one in my car and the other at home as a base station. We're using this one in our RV as a back up to our cell phones. I'll do a follow-up down the road when we've had a little more talk time.
Cobra 148GTL 40 Channel CB Radio.Great product,even exceeds F.C.C regs. Even better price. Note: In thefuture when virtually ALL communication is lost, The C.B. radio will be Your only hope.
Since the AM sounded excellent I would not think the problem was with the mic. The receive audio sounded good, just the transmit audio has the problem. Had the radio for a few weeks before I had a chance to make some SSB contacts and all reported distorted audio. The internal speaker had some rattle to it so I hooked up an external speaker. AM mode works great, with excellent reports. The swr on the antenna was 1.2:1 so there was no problem with the antenna. The ANL and NB were excellent in my mobile setup. I did a google search and found another report of the same problem.
However, the speaker of this radio emits a constant, low volume, high pitched whine when receiving. Even with the Dynamike turned up all the way people could barely hear me. First unit shipped to me received fine but the transmit audio was terrible. The first radio did not have this "feature".The good news is all of the controls and features seem to work correctly and the noise blanker and automatic noise limiter do a terrific job stopping car ignition noises. Had to literally shout to be heard at all.To Amazon's credit they sent me a replacement unit 2nd day air. Amazon has been great to deal with, as always.This second radio seems to transmit fine so far. I figure I will keep this radio and live with the whine and hope no other problems crop up. If they do I will change my rating.
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