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JOHNNY III USA

Ref.: TXUS653
Size : 4.92" (W) x 5.91" (D) x 1.77" (H) Power Supply : 12 V / 24 V AM : Memory : 1 Channel Scan : Filter ANL : Built-in Filter HI-CUT : Weather/Alert :
 

A perfect AM-only, plug-and-play radio for the off-roading enthusiast.  Feature packed and scan capabilities offer ease of use.

 

Warranty: President radios are backed with a 2-year warranty. When purchased with an external President antenna, the radio warranty increases to 5 years under our 2+3 program. 

 

What's in the box: Transceiver, electret microphone with support, mounting cradle, screws and manual.

 
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JOHNNY III USA 12/24V (Orange)

Features

: Size   4.92" (W) x 5.91" (D) x 1.77" (H)
: Weight   1.54 lbs
: Antenna socket   SO-239
: Antenna impedance   50 ohms
: Frequency ranges   from 26.965 MHz to 27.405 MHz
: Power supply (Input Voltage)   13.8 V / 27.6 V
: Microphone plug   front (6 pins)
: Compatible microphone type   Electret
: External Vox microphone jack  
: External loudspeaker jack  
: Public address  
: Display   LCD multifunction
: Channel display  
: S-meter   Digital
: Modulation modes   AM
: Volume adjustment and ON/OFF  
: Squelch   Manual squelch
: Automatic Squelch Control (ASC)  
: Channel selector   Rotary
: F / Menu function key  
: Key Beep  
: Roger beep  
: Key locking  
: Memory   1
: Channel Shortcuts   channel 9 & 19
: Channel Scan  
: RF Gain  
: Hands Free (Vox)  
: TOT  
: Filter ANL   Built-in
: Filter HI-CUT  
: Weather channels   from 162.400 MHz to 162.550 MHz
: Weather/Alert  
:Frequency allowance  ± 200 Hz
:Carrier power  4W AM
:Transmission interference  < to -60 dBc
:Audio response   300 Hz to 3 kHz
:Emitted power in the adj. channel  < 20 μW
:Microphone sensitivity  3 mV
:Drain  < than 2 Amp
:Modulated signal distortion  1.8%
:Max. sensitivity at 10 dB (S+N)/N  0.6 μV - 111 dBm
:Frequency response  300 Hz to 3 kHz
:Adjacent channel selectivity  > 60 dB
:Maximum audio power  2 W
:Squelch sensitivity  min. 0.2 μV - 120 dBm / max. 1 mV - 47 dBm
:Frequency image rejection rate  60 dB
:Intermediate frequency rej. rate  70 dB
:Drain  300 mA nominal / 850 mA maximum
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including lead, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.
Manual

Manual

Johnny III User Manual
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Datasheet

Johnny III Datasheet
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Declaration of conformity

Johnny III FCC Grant Doc
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Declaration of conformity

Johnny III IC Cert Doc
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1/55

By frank allgeyer

Great unit

I have 2 Johnnie III radios. Great unit, loaded with features, quality unit, good performance at a good price.

2/55

By jerry l Huffman

Great little radio with a lot of features for the money…Roger beep and 3 color display!!

Love it! May buy some more real soon!

3/55

By CruiseGuy

Perfect.

I needed a small unit for a dash mount in a Jeep TJ. This fit perfect and works great. Don't spend more.

4/55

By Bob

works good

nice looking

5/55

By Stanley D

Its a CB...

Finally got it instealled and the antenna tuned. I heard voices over it in the driveway, so seems to work. Buttons easy to access and I prefer the rotary channel selector. Haven't used it over the road yet, but expect it to do well.

6/55

By Don Q Public

President Johnny III USA 40 Channel CB Radio

Excellent CB radio, Well made, works and sounds great. use it every day when on the road.

7/55

By Tony

Nice compact radio at a good price.

High quality will built, great reception on the highway. Very easy install, make sure you get a SWR meter to check antenna setting.

8/55

By The Commish

Good CB with all the features you need

What can I say. This radio works & has all the features you need except upper & lower side band. I got into CB back in n the 1970's during the gas shortages & helped in starting a CB Radio Club & then a Ham radio club. I purchased this radio for a SHTF situation to talk locally to my family if the cell phones went down. I was disappointed to hear only the idiots on ch 19 and no local communications or nets in operation. Seems to work good in my car and might be OK as a base station with a decent antenna & power supply....

9/55

By Donna H.

FAST DELIVERY

WONDERFUL PRODUCT

10/55

By Ivan M.

get the lowest SWR !!

with the lowest SWR , powerful small radio, awesome!!

11/55

By JT

Very pleased!

Great value in a nice little CB!

12/55

By Gilly

Small package with many features

This is a good alternative if you don't have space for a regular single din sized CB such as a Uniden 980SSB. The reason I only give it four stars is that I think the buttons are kind of small. I compared the President Andy, President Bill, President Johnny III, and Uniden 980SSB (already owned the uniden as a base station). I didn't have room for the Uniden so I went with the President Andy. The tipping scale between all the president models was the speaker loudness. Means I don't have to have an external speaker. With the Bill model I definitely would have needed an external speaker and possibly for the Johnny model. The Uniden and the Pres Andy both had good speakers on par with each other. Pro's Smallish size, decent speaker, Best reception of pres units, channel change on mic, quick access to wx, 9/19 button, rf gain knob Con's screen not as bright as pres andy, shows freq on screen making channel numbers smaller, picks up engine noise, buttons small, scanning kinda slow, only three screen colors, no talkback

13/55

By jzac4616

Hoodbto have

Will buybanother

14/55

By Stan S.

Good performance in a small package

Nice radio, receive is very good.... this is a nice performing radio. It is small in size but very solid construction. The stock mic sounds good. The mic is light weight but that is because it has eletrek technology which requires less bulky materials.

15/55

By Jon

Quick delivery

Good radio

16/55

By Scott Smith

great radio

it has a real good reciever

17/55

By Richard D

Best Buy Out There

Great radio. I’ve had them all. For the money this one is the one to have.

18/55

By Jesse C.

Best CB I've owned to date

.. owned over 10 various CB's ranging in cost and capabilities and this little CB is my favorite so far. Its simple and easy to use, clear sounding with all the options I need in the offroad community

19/55

By Matthew

Easy install

Compact fit

20/55

By Jason M.

Great CB

......This is a great CB. It’s small to fit anywhere in a pick up and not hit your knees on it or check things on it. I was reaching out a longer ways than I thought it would. Don’t let the size fool you. It’s awesome

21/55

By Herbert S.

Very functional.

Like this radio. Looks great. Works great.

22/55

By elmillonario

it is compact and well made

About the same size as Andy but the heatsink is inside I hope..... up date coming soon.

23/55

By mark

Nice compact radio

Vary nice compact basic 40 ch with weather band. Has great recv. Auto squelch is a great feature

24/55

By Michael H.

Very nice radio

Easy set up, very clear sound

25/55

By Don N.

Great CB well worth the money

..tried different CDs in the past and I must say that this CB is the best I've ever owned

26/55

By Rob

Excellent Compact Radio

... looking for a radio that's compact, lightweight and full of features, this radio is an excellent choice. Its small size allows it to be mounted in newer vehicles where space is all but non-existent. I bought this radio along with the sleek, modern, and [functional] President New York antenna (another excellent product).

27/55

By Dan

What an upgrade when compared with my old CB

I had a Cobra 75 that I couldn't stand anymore: noisy, humongous mic yet tinny LCD lettering, and lack of remembering last channel when restarting the Jeep. The Johnny fixes all those fails and then some more. The sound quality is HAM quality. Outstanding. Also, very small and easy to mount - I have mine sandwiched between the passenger's seat and the center console. The unit never gets hot (it's a CB, so it's only 4Watts), so a tight fit won't hurt it. The mic is light and fits my JeepUniq.com mic mount perfectly...

28/55

By MeefZah

President Johnny III - great little unit

This is a nice little radio. About the same small size as the Uniden 510/520 but a ton more features. I really like the roger beep (cool!), the ability to change the back-lighting color, the scanning weather alert that can run in the background while the CB is in use, and the channel change buttons on the mic. The ASC works surprisingly well - really don't ever have to adjust the squelch - just set it to ASC and leave it alone. Also has one touch ch 9 and 19, RF gain, PA, key beep (can turn that off if you want), 1 memory channel. Memory retains the last channel when you turn off the radio. The best feature is the scan, I like to mostly listen and this lets me do so on all 40 channels. There are a few negatives - the mounting hardware is cheezy and cheap feeling, and the mic is very light and toylike. Having said that, overall, this is a good unit. It works well with good range, and has a ton of features for it's size. I'm very pleased....

29/55

By Mark D.

Very satisfied...

Very satisfied...

30/55

By Kerry F.

great cb

Color change is nice, mic us small and light weight some might like, but not me, the weather channel is great, small and light weight cb. The all black color and not chrome is great as I put mine on the dash and not under the dash, channel selector on the mic is not for me as I keep changing the channel, need to get use to this feature...,

31/55

By N H.

Great!!!

....this little CB is awesome! It fit perfectly above my rearview mirror it is very compact and just feels indestructible. Was able to tune my SWR down to 1.2 on channel 20 on a 2' Firestick FS mounted on rear tire carrier. Right out of the box it also put out 4 watts exactly so no under performance there. After tuning the local weather came in crystal clear. The ASC option seems to be a little aggressive and has a tendency to filter out to much you get better performance manually using the squelch controller. The only flaw I found with it was the included hardware for the mic mount was to small and I was not able to attach the mic to the side of the radio without going out locally and getting the next size up. Not any kind of show stopper just an over-site that should be easily remedied by President. Over-all I am more then impressed and happy with this radio and very excited to get out on the trails with it.

32/55

By Matt R.

Awesome!

This CB is awesome....couldn't be happier

33/55

By rexalrhodesjr

Great CB

...works great very nice equipment

34/55

By gtom9108

Small and handy

... small, very handy cb radio is a better radio and much better value than you find at any truckstop.

35/55

By bysste-let604

:)

All the stuff you want in a small radio ! ...

36/55

By Anonymous

Great CB

This CB works great....very clear with reception!

37/55

By Cale

Get it

Works great and clear....

38/55

By richard

Very compact

....compact lots of power and real clear would recommend highly

39/55

By Howard C.

Great radio

....Very good reception and clear.

40/55

By Anonymous

Pleased with this President!

...purchased this for a few up coming road trips, just back off the first one. Performed well. A little weak on volume, but overall pleased....

41/55

By Hoohaw Porkpie

Excellent radio!

Great little compact radio. Excellent "ears", transmits very well!.....

42/55

By Anonymous

Great sound quality

..... unhappy with my Cobra 75WX ST CB radio: the reception quality was very bad no matter what antenna I had (5', 4', 3'), plus I really, really hated that it kept returning to channel 9 whenever I stopped the engine. Oh, and the LCD screen is so tiny that I needed my glasses to read it. So I've replaced it with a President Johnny III USA CB. The quality difference between the two is night and day. On the last jeeping trip I had both the HAM (an YaesuFT400 and the CB on, and I couldn't tell which one was which. I had to keep an eye on the HAM's VU-meter to figure out which was which. And this is with a 2' CB antenna. ....The auto-squelch works absolutely amazingly. As I said: HAM sound quality! ... Front microphone plug - perfect for using it with a JeepUniq mic mount! Downsides: a bit more expensive than comparative size CBs, but that's not apple to apple comparison this is a fully featured CB (it only lacks sideband to be considered top-of-the-line).

43/55

By Wonder woman

Five Stars

Best well made cb in a long time. Quality control is excellent....works very well!

44/55

By Hoyt C

Five Stars

love it...

45/55

By Matt

Good compact unit with wx band and scan

....Compact with weatherband and scan....

46/55

By rexalrhodesjr

Great CB

...works great..... very nice equipment

47/55

By Chad T.

Five Stars

Best cb I have ever had...

48/55

By Jason S.

Five Stars

Works good easy to set up love the weather stations....

49/55

By Anonymous

very happy with the product so far other than the speaker...

....Install was easy and radio is what i expected.

50/55

By William P.

Five Stars

Love it

51/55

By Xzibbit

Best Radio!

...best radio i have used in a jeep! Love the functions...sounds amazing!

52/55

By Fox79

Nice unit.

Very nice unit. Would recommend and would buy again.

53/55

By Matthew S.

Best CB so far!

Works great 12v or 24 v best cb we have used in equipment so far

54/55

By Matt R.

Awesome!

This CB is awesome........ couldn't be happier

55/55

By Kevin M.

Great radio! I like the small size

Great radio! ....... fits great on the side of my center console. Good range.

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