Bubble poped on new Galaxy radios

OPINION ...

Fact is you get what you pay for.

 

Just because a CB shop tells me that a Brand of CB is worst or better than another doesn't mean it's really true. Many are just trying to make a sale. A 5 year old Cobra was made in China and was some of the worst radios ever made under the Cobra name. My company puts a "NEW" Cobra 29 in every new tractor. And between 2003-06 we had over 100 of them fail (fleet of 250). Just look inside of a newer 29 and my (1985 very heavy) 29 LTD and see how much is missing out of the newer ones. They look empty inside. I think you just happen to get a sales pitch.

 

No truth to that what so ever
Expensive does in no way define quality/performance

You should know better

 

I don't know if my galaxy 93t is the older or newer of the galaxy he is refering to but I would take it over 20 cobra 29s. It talks better, cleaner the recieve it better its just a better radio alltogether as long as she holds up. I think he is most likely reffering to the cb line and not the 10 meters galaxys. My buddy has a 959 and its seems alittle shakey. Sometimes it talks good sometimes it don't and it driffs bad on ssb. Alot more compared to my 93t. Galaxy may have cheapened the boards and capasitors like cobra did to cut cost. I know that my old cobra 25 wieghs more then the new ones and also if you take apart a new 29 and old 29 you will find that everything in the older one was heavyer built and that the face plate was metal and plastic not just plastic like the new 29's

 

REALY

The fact IS you get what you pay for .... A $150 SSB radio built for CB
DOES NOT have a limit as to drift except for the channel limit which used to be about +/- 1.5 KHZ of center. There is NO FCC rule on receivers except for part 15 which also applys to the transmiter.

There is NO FCC requirement for quailty ..... now lets go into COST ......

The end user is what they are building for and 99% of them don't know good from pure c### Here on this forum what do you see EXTRA CHANNLES ...... EXPORTS ........ FUNNY FREQUES ....... SWING MODS .....

If I built a radio using the same level of parts used in mid level HAM radios
Say the IC-718 or FT-450AT now you CB is $300 not 150 .... drift is gone and the output is far cleaner .....

A dirty DRIFTING HAM radio will not last long .... REMEMBER SILTRONICS AND SWAN Shure some people still like them and they soon found a market in the freebanding groups but few hams would own one.

CBers are not going to pay big bucks for radios they want power and extras if they are going to spend $200 or more I would be willing to bet if someone made a CB with DSP filters RF audio filtering and used good quilty parts .... but it was LEGAL no one would ever buy it .....

This is a older midlevel ham radio ....

 

You refuse to understand,your world and Trucking
Similar in context but the requirements are different.

Trucking Radios are big power,big swing and outragous audio out puts
Its a my daddy can whip your daddy kinda thing,some just play like that.

 

Your world is cover by the same laws of radio that Marconi fought in 1901
POWER POWER MORE and more POWER well then came better receivers and CW transmitters and guess what you could cross to England with 5 not 5,000 watts.

I hear this I need 10,000 watts stuff all the time and 5 "S" units of swing ... but the fact is aside from the FCC limits no one does or ever will.

MOST HAMS I know and I'm one of them run 100 watts or less MOST run VERY CLEAN audio with a bit of clipping or compression watch them swing maybe 1/2 "S" unit and listen to them when the signal is just above the noise. I have using a good antenna and 700 watts bounced a signal off the moon as have many others some working all states using that mode.

All high power does is cause problems for others which is why the FCC has never raised the power of either CB or HAM radios.

I FULLY understand what radios can do and what happens when you allow people to run amuck with power on any band HAM or CB ... 20 meters is a good example of linears being used way too much.

Now " Trucking Radios " are no different all radios follow the same laws they generate a signal and receive it the same way any other radio does in whatever mode you are using just because you have a butchered up set with a crude form of controlled carrier modulation wide band distortion and illegal power does not change things one bit. Also like "EXPORT RADIOS " they are not found under any definded sets.

Now feel free to run what you want as long as you don't interfere with anyone no one will care what is is or what is is called have at it and have fun on your radio .....

 

Being a Ham and a CBer since 1968 I do agree that they are two different worlds.