2 radios in truck

[Lmbrjak]

Does anyone run 2 radios in there truck I have a genral lee and want a cobra with the weather allertblile the cobra 18 or the 25 model does anyone do this if so how are ur antennas ran

[pancake]

just curious why 2 radios, dont get me wrong but you may have 2 hands and 2 ears but 1 mouth, in my car i have a scanner, a cb, and listen to the radio, i find my self constintly turning 1 up and the other down, and people look strangly at me at a red light and all that stuff going on, but if you must, how about a ant. switch?

[420Snowman]

Does anyone run 2 radios in there truck I have a genral lee and want a cobra with the weather allertblile the cobra 18 or the 25 model does anyone do this if so how are ur antennas ran

You could only run one at a time and antenna tuning could get tricky. If they were on different bands, like 6 meter, etc you wouldn't have any trouble tuning antennas. With both on 11 meters it could get tricky. You may be able to run them both on the same antenna but you better never accidentally leave one on while keying the other......

Snowman
Sent from my Grim Reaper powered HTC.

[hilltop 439]

I tried it and it did not work two radios and two antennas for 11 meters. I could listen to two different channels but transmitting was impossible a whole lot of squealing and feed back just was not going to work . The only way is to turn one radio off so what is the point in having two radios hooked up . Take one and box it up for a spair or use it as a base. As far two radios and one antenna with a switch same deal if not worse you wont even be able to listen to both radios than because the switch will break the connection to one of the radios. A "T" connector is bad news also then you take the risk of burning up the receiver in one of your radios.

['Doc]

If the reason for that second radio is the weather thingy, I think you'd be better off with just getting a 'weather radio'.
Since all it would be doing is receiving, almost any antenna would work on it. Some better than others, but...
- 'Doc

[Radar-DLDN]

My Midland has a weather radio that works just fine. I'm with doc, if you have a good working radio then a scanner or weather radio with a more tuned antenna will do much better. At 127 Mhz a CB antenna cannot pick it up as good as the 4 inch loaded antenna on my scanner.

[jlpicard440]

I run 2 radios..in my mobile..but not on the same band. I have 11 meters and 2 meters. the 2 meter radio will also pick up weather, and local fire and rescue...aircraft....etc...etc....but I'm with everybody else on this, I don't see running two radios on the same band.....even though I have (2) 2 meter radios on my base one on a vertical and one on a beam....works great..they interfere with each other only "a little bit". not enough to worry about. I can monitor 2 different freqs. at the same time, but for cb..I don't think it's practical either.

[352 Smiley]

ya you only use one ant. on the truck.just switch out the radios when you feel like it.