Linear amp vs preamp for my CB

You should spend the money on a tune up on the radio for tx and good antennas properly set up for your rx.

If you do go the amp route, Palomars and Texas Stars already have a pre-amp in built in.
In that case of going just an amp, on the back of the amp it will tell were to connect the coax. (radio in, radio out)

 

Depends on whether or not your preamp can switch the power from your amp.

Preamps work better the closer they are to the antenna, but not if the amp is going to blow it out.

 

Personally, I would forget about the receive amp. Most anything I have heard just increases all noise. Just get a radio that is tuned properly and leave it at that. Now if you want to play the distance game then look at something in the 350+ watt range. Just my opinion.

 

At the time, I am just running an export Connex that does way more then needed for local comunications. Most the time I have it turned down to about 30 watts average and doing about 150+ peak. It is usually more then enough to get my point across locally. Now if I want to hit the walls then I can turn it up and hit either the sand pile or shaky ground from up here in the Dakotas.

 

i have a stryer 497 out of the box put a astaic 636 mike on it (i got reports of muffled sound from the stock) and a predator 10 k i shot skip from wpg mb. to north carolina

 

Some amps have built in pre amps. however as pointed out most just introduce more white noise.

With that said, what kind of antenna do you have? That really makes all the difference in how well you can receive, and transmit.

 

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KL 200p is what i have. has a built in preamp works great! here is another link that posted on here to share my experience with this amp... I didnt touch on the preamp on it, but the preamp works great for me!
http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...dio-forum/193670-cobra-29-lx-rm-italy-kl.html