TJ's CB Shop in Ruther Glen, VA

TJ's a good guy. His prices are slightly more than others, but he does good work. He'll bench your radio free of charge and does all his work right there in front of the customer.

 

hes worked on my connex, did a great job, good guy

 

I'm going by today to have them evaluate my galaxy dx 979 that I bought from a disreputable golden screwdriver. I need piece of mind and to know what this old nut did to this box. Does TJ have a scope? One of the gurus here said the guy must have a scope.

 

This is how most 10 meter export radios look right out of the box. This looks like a good waveform but look up overhead at the spectrum analyzer and you'll see all the bleed over. A scope is only half the battle

 

This is how it should look when properly tuned and aligned

 

TJ's had no scope. They were overpriced, and the daughter Sunshine was lazy. TJ was helpful, but said all galaxies are trash.

Won't be going back. Another driver said on the other side of 95 between the flying j and my fuel is the guy who got TJ started and actually uses a scope.

But, next time I but a radio it will be a 10 meter that'll get for myself for obtaining my HAM license. I haven't decided on which yet. But nobody is going to open it up. I've learned the hard way.

 

That's a pretty safe policy. I wouldn't exactly be that extreme because I've seen what my technician can do to an Icom 7000. But 99% of the time I would totally agree I wouldn't let anybody touch a nice high dollar Ham rig.

 

Here's a really good rule of thumb. ( and I just made this up ) If a ham guy is unwilling to let a technician work on his high dollar rig why would you want that technician to work on your CB or export radio?