Earlier this year I posted a couple of new videos on the old Cobra 138/139 XLR radios and the comment section gave me a good laugh. More than once I saw the following comment – “Great to see you’re still alive!” I guess it has been a while since I have done any radio reviews […]
Category Archives: CB Radio News
11
Aug
Aug
Just recently I had done a video on the Cobra 138XLR when I saw a Facebook ad for a Cobra 139XLR – the base equivalent of the mobile radio. I drove 1.5 hours to go take a look at this beautiful radio and sure enough the ad was correct and the radio was in very […]
07
May
May
Today I found a great article on the Cobra 138 XLR which is funny since one just came into my hands this week! I’ve owned 3-4 of these over the years and always enjoyed running them due to their great on-air audio performance, and no hassle layout. Eventually I always drift away towards radios with […]
01
May
May
If your area is rural and is anything like mine you may have noticed the CB airwaves have been pretty quiet lately. DX hasn’t been very frequent and the next solar cycle hasn’t really gotten going yet. Combine that with a hobby that has declined in users in that last couple of years and sometime […]
01
May
May
When been near the bottom of the 11 year solar cycle and DX last year and this year in the 11 meter band has been terrible but there are signs things are making a turn for the better. We’re starting to see sunspots as part of the latest cycle that are leading specialists to believe […]
28
Apr
Apr
RCI radios has released a new version of the RCI-2950 called the 2950DX-6 and it uses the same new display as the previous newest version, the 2950CD. The big difference is that output of the new radio is that it will do around 100 watts (after tuning) which is a jump up from the previous […]
28
Apr
Apr
There have been some interesting reports coming from users all around the USA that newer Imax antennas they have purchased aren’t tuning for a low SWR. The rumors gave way to some hard evidence when Bell’s CB recently post on their website the following: We no longer sell this antenna because Solarcon decided to shorten […]
28
Apr
Apr
When I started CB Radio Magazine 14 years ago I never thought it would become what it is today. When I first started the website I was still living in a small house on the side of volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. I’d been a avid CB hobbyist since the 80’s and by 2006 I […]