Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio - a Review

The Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio is a balanced CB radio with many useful features. These features range from a backlit panel and backlit controls, a built-in weather radio, to gain and squelch controls. The Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio is perfect communications solution for the CB radio hobbyist or for the more serious CB user.

The most distinguishing characteristic of the Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio is the backlighting on the front panel and the controls. The backlighting makes the Cobra 29 a useful radio when traveling at night when there is no daylight to help the user see the controls. While most people will develop the muscle memory to handle the radio in the dark fairly quickly, the subtle backlighting on the Cobra 29 makes it much easier to adjust the controls on the Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio even in the dark.

Another useful feature of the Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio is the built-in weather radio function. Weather radio channels allow a CB user to monitor national weather broadcasts for severe weather. This is important for those CB users who travel through areas of the country, such as the Midwest or the South, that receive heavy and sudden weather such as storms, hurricanes, and tornados. The built-in weather channels in the Cobra Nightwatch CB Radio allow one to stay updated on the latest weather conditions and then to call for assistance or information on the regular CB channels if necessary.

The Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio comes with all the required mounting hardware to mount the CB radio beneath or on top of the dash of your car. Since sunlight is particularly harsh on electronics, it is best to mount the Cobra Nightwatch CB Radio under the dash and out of the direct sunlight. The Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio also includes a handheld microphone with a coiled microphone cable for ease of use in a confined environment such as an automobile cab.

The Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio puts out the maximum legal power for the Citizen's Band Radio Service in the United States. While normally this power level restricts communications by CB to a range of several miles, it is possible under the right atmospheric conditions to have communications over hundreds or thousands of miles due to the phenomenon of "skip" which allows radio waves to bounce between the ionosphere and the Earth. Communications of this sort with the Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio are certainly possible under the right atmospheric conditions.

In conclusion, if you are looking for a premium CB radio with lots of features, give the Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio a try. The backlighting will be helpful in the dark, and the weather radio will keep you safe in uncertain weather. Cobra has an excellent product in the Cobra 29 Nightwatch CB Radio.