CB wiring HELP! Speaker too quiet!

i wired in and tuned my cobra 18, but the front facing speaker is really really quiet. when i turn to the weather broad cast i have to put my ear on the the speaker to hear anything, and when i have squelch and volume all the way up its still extremely quiet and i hear almost no static. When i turned to channel 19 i was picking up some chatter but it was too quiet to make out.

Then i plugged my 3.5mm aux jack to the ext speaker port in the cb and played it through the truck speakers and the weather broadcast came through fine and i could hear.

i have tried wiring both power wires to the cig acc fuse and both directly to the battery and the same results happen, the speaker is just way too soft. I have my dash all apart trying to figure out how to fix it so i can get it back together and just want it done haha. anyone have any ideas?!

 

My Cobra 18 was the same. I bought a cheap $5 external speaker and it was MUCH better.

 

haha thats a tad depressing, i just want the radio to work like its supposed to. where did you get yours?

 

I've been down the Cobra 18 road already.... I feel your pain.

 

Strange. My cobra 18 WX ST IIspeaker is loans as hell! Could be that the cb isn't getting the correct amount of power. That happened to me I just didnt have a good power and ground connection.

 

i could, but then i wouldnt be able to play the radio at the same time.

how EXACTLY do you have yours wired?

same place you are. behind the kick panel

 

Ad a circuit in the fuse panel. Wired both red and orange power wires together to the ad a circuit in a switched fuse.

 

so red and orange are both going to one fuse? a 15 i assume? thats what I had originally, it was in the 15 cig fuse, then i seperated the wires to 2 different fuses, and put em both on the battery, then i just resituated the ground wire and still nothing. i might just have to get an external speaker...god damit

this is really aggrivating. why cant it just work.

 

Mine was doing the same thing, plug the mic in...... it made mine louder....

 

i had that issue with mine. i had to re-sodder a wire in the handle plug in.

 

the mic? that you talk into? because that is already in

where is the handle plug in?

 

im ment to say mic. not handle. sry. handle is slang for something else.... forgot.

i disassembled the part where i circled in red. there was a blue wire that had come loose. i re-soddered it and fixed it up

 

and that made...the internal speaker louder?

 

idk what the mic has anything to do with the amount of speaker volume output. but once i fixed that wire the volume was good as new.

 

yea. the internal speaker volume with almost absent. it was so quiet i had to lean in all the way up to the unit to hear anything at all.

 

ok, great. ill give it a try

thats exactly the way mine is

 

Dont feel bad my cobra 18 wont transmit.

 

i hope its an easy fix. they are pretty cheap CB radios to begin with though. get what we paid for i suppose.

 

HA ive got some buddies ive tried talking to that all they hear from me is a buzz

 

thats interference sounds like a bad ground and u may wanna add a noise filter...did you tune it?