Miata Mailing List: July 1999, Message #1

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I don't know about that.  I drove to Texas leading a caravan
of 18+ cars through Virginia and chatted up a storm on my
Cobra.  At well over 80 at some points and with the top and
windows down, , no one complained that wind noise was making
it hard to understand me.


Tom Blough &
"Molly" '99 Red LP
tblough@snet.net
Avon, CT
Team Duetto Seat Heaters
Team Duetto Triple Air Horns
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Team Jeff Anderson Antenna Splitter/Cobra 75WX


-----Original Message-----
From: miata@realbig.com [mailto:miata@realbig.com]On Behalf
Of Earl D.
Fife
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 5:44 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: CB Suggestions


At 4:50 PM -0400 6/30/99, Paul Williamson wrote:
> At 06/30/99 08:50 AM -0400, Frank Smith wrote:
> >   Hi all,
> >     In prep for my vacation I'm thinking of installing a
CB.  Ideally
> >I'd like to mount one with all controls on the mike under
the DS seat or
> >in the trunk.  Any recommendations?  Are antenna
combiners common and/or
> >available at retail outlets?  Is wind noise a common
problem?  Is there
> >a common Miata channel, or do locals each use their own?
>
> That's exactly what I did.  Cobra "works in the mic" radio
(75 WX ST) with
> Jeff Anderson's splitter.  Works great.  Miata channel is
35.  Hard to hear
> it with the top down at 80 MPH. :-)

One added improvement - I added an external speaker mounted
between the
seats on the carpet above the compartment housing the trunk
release.  The
external speaker makes it considerably easier to hear while
driving 75 with
the top down (and windblocker up).  However, at that speed,
you also need
the windows up to speak or the wind noise will be too
distracting.

Earl

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Earl D. Fife              | Grand Rapids, MI
Natty, a '94B Red         | (616) 452-3952
License Plate:  URL F
President of MOMM (Miata Owners of Mid-Michigan): 1999
http://mcfife.calvin.edu/miata.html