New CB's are crap...

I use one Wilson antenna with the capacitor looking thing a couple inches from where it plugs into the socket on the mirror and a stock antenna on my Pro Star. The distance is good, I have a Uniden Bear Cat 880 and I have been talking up to 4 miles away crystal clear. That to me is pretty good for a stock radio with an adjustment by a CB guy in Joplin, MO by the name of Cochee(I forgot the spelling), good guy if anyone is in the area. Knows his stuff, has a degree and did this stuff in Vietnam while in the war. Came to the truck stop after talking to him on the radio and only cost me $20.00 to set my radio straight.

 

You are blaming the wrong group of people for America's demise..............

 

No he's not. Corporate greed is destroying everything. Can't buy anything decent that's American made because they've shipped it all off for a labor force that will take a dollar a day.

 

My my, no wonder we are in the shape we are in..............

 

I stand by my original statement. WOULD YOU PAY ALOT MORE FOR AN AMERICAN MADE PRODUCT? Lots will talk the talk but when it comes down to laying down their money, they'll opt to save a few bucks and leave it up to the other guy to buy American.

Years ago my buddy and I were driving by the now long closed Ford plant in Mawah NJ on Route 17 before it goes into New York. We were surprised buy the great number of Japanese cars in the lot. This was maybe the late 70's or early 80's. Well that plant is long closed and many of the Ford execs and workers had to sell off their homes at fire sale prices. Devastated the areas economy for quite a while, as plant stood empty for some time. Ironically the plant eventually was bought by the electronics giant JVC (Japan Victory Corp.)

We are not willing to pay more so in order to stay in business companies farm out labor to cheaper markets to compete. Greed, or simply survival? I wonder how many Ford workers would have bought those imports if they had foreseen what was to happened to their jobs.

Ever seen pictures of Japan? Seen many Fords or Chevies in those pictures? Americans, we are our own worst enemies at times.

 

They've been taught by Walmart years ago to buy garbage because it saves them money. That $10 pair of jeans last 4 months but the $40 last 5 years but they're saving money. You can't fix stupid.

 

While I can sympathize with the poor quality of products in most every industry nowadays, you can't necessarily blame the labor force in the foreign countries. Why you may ask...

Everything that is made with in or outside our borders are made to the specs by the respective manufacturer. So if its made cheap it's no fault than the suites in the air conditioned offices here in the US.

My college roommate freshman and sophomore year is an engineer for 3M. He spends more time in China than in the US. Overseeing production at numerous plants. A QC measure. Much the same way there is a set of roughly 10 Nissan Motors engineers that rotate back and forth to the US at 1 month intervals overseeing the work that US workers are doing at the plant in Jackson Mississippi.
The workers at factories in foreign countries get a bad rap for the products they assemble. But, they are only using the processes they were taught using the materials they are specifically told to use.

 

Amen!

American may never learn, just continue to complain...

 

You really tripped over your own comment. Why do you think that your friend spends so much time in China? The spec provided NEEDS QC. I have recent experience with a company that had a product manufactured in Asia (Korea). It is common practice to ignore a great deal of your spec. Their mentalioty is to make it cheap and quality be ######. I have specific recent experience with electro-mechanical devices made in Korea. Several prototype parts came with their "improvements". Because they deemed their way better they didn't feel the need to- check with the American engineers. Business is conducted in a totally different world over there.

That is without mentioning thefts of design, m