Miata Mailing List: July 1999, Message #7

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I sent an email to Firestik asking if they had a splitter.

Here is their response.

> Hi,
>
> I doing the US road trip thing in a 92 Miata and have purchased a Cobra 75
> WX ST CB radio.
>
> You you sell a splitter so I can use the std Miata aerial?

NO ... we sell a splitter that let's you use a CB antenna for AM/FM ... not
the
other way around.

rv1@firestik.com

Firestik Antenna Company
2614 E Adams Street
Phoenix, AZ  85034-1495


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Smith [mailto:RedMiata@netzero.net]
Sent: Friday, 2 July 1999 01:00
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: CB Suggestions


  Tom,
    Do you have the Cobra 75 WX ST?  My wind noise question was directed
mainly for the mike.  I can fit another tiny speaker in the headrests,
so hearing isn't really a problem.  Perhaps a 'foam' windscreen over the
microphone element (like the type outdoor reporters use) would help?
    Keep the idea's coming, and thanks for those so far,

    Frank

Tom Blough wrote:

> 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
> Team LightsUp! - Team Miata Interior Light Delay
> Team '99TrunkLights
> 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
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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


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