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Old 01-21-2010, 01:27 PM
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jus threw a cb in my rig n shes workin fine till the other day, whatever channel im on it switches to 9 for a sec then back. not sure whats up, but the dam things brand new and id hate to think is busted some kinda way
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Dont say anything on channel 9...
Thats the emergency channel
I hope you knew that already.

You might of got a bad radio. Take it back and get a new one just to be sure...
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it was workin fine for the 2 weeks i had it before it started doin that, and yea, deff didnt say anything on 9
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Does it have scan options? maybe its picking up some emergency channel noise and switching over?

get the antenna tuned
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Is it a Cobra? or does it have the 9/19 switch? Perhaps something in the switch is going out????

I had/have a Cobra 19 and hate that it is on Channel 9 every time I turn it on.... It is having problems receiving right now though so it's not in my XJ.
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its radio shack, 1447 i think, idk, need to check the numbers, but its a nice cb n it has the 19/9 switch, it wasnt doin it today so i hope it was just interfereance, shes a nice little setup tho, got weather channels n everything

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