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damn thats the only one i skipped. whatever lol
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HHAAHAHHAHAHA its all good
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So with my recently purchased CB, I am thinking of updating my head unit for playing music. I'm not getting anything fancy, what i'm looking at is
http://www.crutchfield.com/p_105KDR2...&ssi=0&tp=5684
since it's got all the features I want/need, and they say it will fit in the opening (with modifications of couse, since it's going from double -> single DIN).
However, this is an idea I have been toying with for a long time: Take out old double DIN deck and replace it with a single DIN deck and a CB radio.
Such like:
http://forum.ih8mud.com/attachment.p...1&d=1244867098
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...Moya/Dash2.jpg
http://www.tacomaterritory.com/tacozilla/cobra29.jpg
I think it would be a cool/unique way to have both items added to the dash and try to keep it looking somewhat OEM.
However, my manager at work brought up a good point when I told him the idea. He said that with the H/U on and the CB on, things would heat up a bit. I'm not sure if it would get to such high temps that it would start frying stuff, however, I wondered if it would interfer with signals that the CB is trying to transmit/receive.
Any opinions/experience in this neck of the woods? Thanks
P.S. the first 2 pics have the Cobra 18WXSTII, which is the radio I have.
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Crutchfield is awesome you get the install kit with everything.
I recommend you get something with USB - that way you can just get like a cheap 4GB memory stick, fill it with MP3's and never bother changing CD's and such.
And I think you would be fine having both in there. I don't think it will heat up enough to cook anything.
What would be cool (I think) is if the two were tied together - so when the CB received it played over the regular speakers and cut the music, same with sending - cut the music.
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Thanks for your input.
I don't really need anything fancy as far as a deck is concerned....I need 3 basic functions (1) look good/fit (2) sound good (3) play my Zune
But yeah right now I have the factory radio install (tape player only) and i use a tape -> 3.5mm adaptor to listen to music, but this has been kinda acting up lately. Plus my head unit now doesnt receive FM signals all that well.
That would be pretty sweet to do the whole intertwined system thing, however that is electrical stuff that would be way over my head...
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Hey Matt, the easiest, best & cheapest is installing a Scion radio. It's plug & play right down to the stock mounting brackets. Minor trimming of the face or dash is all that's required. Scion owners sell hem for $50. I have one and use my iPod all the time, very nice and cheap enough.
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Chris in Florida
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get something with a usb port, use a thumb drive to store music on and play it from that. this is what im sticking in little brutus
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i no a place that has a blurtooth raido with a i-pod and a mp3 player for 107 with tax
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Back to CBs....Mine doesn't work, not sure why. I've got the cable running under my truck, tucked up in the frame rales. Antenna is behind my cab and sticks up above my cab. the unit is mounted....kinda still working on that...in the dash under my radio. The unit is grounded under the dash....to something that has all the other electronics grounded to it. I figured that was a good ground since the factory had used it for everything else. All I get is noise. I can faintly hear trucker voices over the noise, and when I adjust the sqwelch the noise gets a little better then everything just drops off and there's no noise. Any suggestions? I'm assuming this is a case of lakc of knowledge and installers error...
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is it a "whine" that your referring too? And if so does the whine go up in pitch when you rev the engine? how exactly do you have the power to it hooked up?
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your best to run it directly to the battery with the negative and positive with a fuse on the positive closest to the battery. If it still persists a ground loop isolator may be needed.
something similar to this.
http://www.bellscb.com/products/acce...ise_filter.htm
stereo's have these built in thus why you dont get noise. cb's sometimes do, sometimes dont. Try movnig the ground to another spot as well, to a place on its own to something that leads to a good ground.
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the only thing wrong with wiring like the directions say is you introduce alot of noise. Some cars put more noise in, others dont...
all they care bout it getting power to it, nothing else..
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