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Bluegrass
Intermediate Member
Username: Bluegrass
Post Number: 359
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 3:08 pm: | 
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A friend of mine is thinking about getting a Uniden PC68LTW and i would like to know if it is a good radio.He did want to get a Cobra 25 with weather band and Nightwatch but sence they don't make a model like that without that awful Soundtracker he is looking at the Uniden version of the 25WXNWST. |
1861
Intermediate Member
Username: 1861
Post Number: 258
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 6:29 pm: |
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I know that for a 40 channel am only cb , the pc68xl is as good as you can buy . I expect the ltw would also be |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 674
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 6:38 pm: |
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The Uniden with a good tuneup will make a fine cb. It will be loud. The audio quality is clear at unbelievable volumes for such a cheap radio. Has good ears too.
Mikefromms |
Vanillagorilla
Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 80
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 06, 2005 - 5:29 am: |
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Love the one I have. Same as the PC68XL except has the illuminated knob surrounds and weather channels with alert. Did a cap/res mod on mine and swing REAL nice with booming audio...no power mic required and NO clipped limiter.
DK2 swing to 20!(techs meter said 27 but I'll be more realistic.. ) Have since retired it from the mobile for a Grant but IS a nice basic AM rig.
Tell your buddy to go for it if AM is all he wants.
Hank '905 |
Bluegrass
Intermediate Member
Username: Bluegrass
Post Number: 360
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 4:06 pm: |
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It's not all he wants,It's all he can afford.
I think he'll be happy with that radio.I had heard that the Dynamic Squelch System was just like the Soundtracker and just as bad.Is that true? |
1861
Intermediate Member
Username: 1861
Post Number: 262
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2005 - 8:25 pm: |
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I use the dynamic squelch on mine when talking local to cut all trash -- when talking distance ,I TURN IT OFF AND JUST USE IT LIKE OTHER RADIOS . jUST AN OPTION , DON,T HAVE TO USE IT . |
Bluegrass
Intermediate Member
Username: Bluegrass
Post Number: 362
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 08, 2005 - 10:33 am: |
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Well thats the way the Soundtracker is and i heard people say that if you have soundtracker on everything gets messed up and if you turn it off you can't hear a thing.If that's not the case with the Uniden rig that's great. |
1861
Intermediate Member
Username: 1861
Post Number: 263
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, July 08, 2005 - 11:43 am: |
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That definatly isn,t the case with the UNIDEN. It is as good a straight 40 CB as you will find |
Bluegrass
Intermediate Member
Username: Bluegrass
Post Number: 365
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Monday, July 11, 2005 - 1:20 pm: |
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Well that's good to hear I'll tell my friend that. Thanks for the help. |
Dale
Intermediate Member
Username: Dale
Post Number: 140
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 5:44 pm: |
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the new unidens are just as good as the older ones .quailty in them are still the same |
