Looking to upgrade from my cobra75. Anyone have using one of these? I'm looking at the 880 or 980 bearcat models. Pics of instal would be great. Thanks in advance.

 

I have an 880 as I preferred the look over the 980.

 

Anyone else have imput??

 

Marshall31, does your 880 speaker sound low? I just installed mine and I can't hear anything. I haven't been able to locate a speaker volume option on the unit. I can barely hear the weather on it... would it be better to connect a cb speaker to the unit?

 

I just installed the 980SSB. I am still working on tuning it. I actually need a little help with that part. The 980 has a built in SWR meter, however I have a stand alone unit that I want to tune with it. Hopefully I will get it tuned later this week or over the weekend.

I read a lot of great things about the Bearcat units. There are better CB's out there, however I needed one that I could fit into my dash and had the options I wanted. The Bearcat was pretty much the only one that fit all my requirements.

 

Sorry for the late reply, just seeing this now....

No the speaker is definitely not low. In fact, I had bought an external speaker in anticipation of hooking it up, but found no need. I usually won't have the volume more than half way up.

 

Got mine and love it!!

 

I love my bearcat. Hey what mount is that fitz?

 

I have rock hard sport cage and used kc hi lights tube light bracket. Works great

 

I am running the uniden 880, and have been very impressed with it. Like you, I wanted a more modern looking unit so it didn't look out of place in the front of the cab as well as a built in calibration too because when it comes to optimizing radios for signal and transition strength.... I have no clue. This this feature was important to me. I also liked that the unit was 3 inches shorter than the cobra 29xl and had a multi color display.

The unit itself had a quality build and the speaker is beyond loud, which is the reason I didn't go with the smaller midland or cobra 75 model. I mounted mine up high on a mount I fabricated.





CB Magazing also has a YouTube video on this exact model. It has two parts and essentially explains everything, what it does and how to use it. It's worth a look.

Build 9/10 " cb mic mount screws were to small"
Looks 10/10
Ease of use 9.5/10 " instructions were not good"
Sound clarity/ quality 10/10

My set up:
Uniden 880
18 ft Amazon cable
Rugged Ridge cb antenna mount
screw mount antenna holder "firestik brand"
HD spring " firestik brand" hd is a must stay away from the light and Medium duty springs.
4ft firestik.

Side note* I did have to bend the rigged ridge antenna mount as the antenna would not clear the stock rubicon tire and I did not have to file off the paint to obtain an SWr of 1.0

Hope this helps. Good luck.