Anyone know about Radio Active Radios?

hello everybody! my experience with Radio Active Radio is the next: i've bought from them a Connex 4300-300 and a Rci 69 FFB4 radio, both with the Super Wack Pack,Super RX,nitro knobs,, Bold
Extended Beep, Upgraded Leve III Echo/reverb board, amp on.off,etc...I've paid approx. $2100.The radios arrived at my home less then 6 months.The truth is that the radios were sounded very good in AM,not very good in USB ,but where I most using them which is FM,it sounded very badly (reaching just 10-15 W from approx. 100-200W pep). I've been using them both in my truck about 5 months,until I had a short circuit and I've burn them.After that I connected with RAR and they told me to ship them to Casa Grande,Arizona in order to fix them.The radios arrived to them in the firsts of January. I had to wait until June,this year,to find out the costs of the repairs ($1000).I've paid them with the only way that they aloud you to pay,which is the bank check $1209,16,which includes the repairs,3 expert coax level 2 ($177) and a astatic 636L ( $35).The check I've send has arrived in the USA at July 25.After a month waiting I've send them an e-mail in order to know how the things goes,if they allready shipped the radios to Spain and they told me this. : "Hello Sir.I am sorry. We have been running behind on your units. I will have them sent out asap.One the RCI I wanted to try something new on the FM side of the unit to help you even a little more. It took me longer then I wanted to and I am very sorry. You have been patient and I am sorry for the delay.Can you email me to verify the address, and I will ship them out shortly.I am sorry for the delay, but the FM mod worked well.RA".This was the last contact that I had with them .Since than I've been sending 3-4 e-mails every week ,also calling them every week,trying to contact with them ,but no exit at all,no answer whats of ever.Please people,I want to understand my position,I'm hopeless.I've started to think that I will never ever going to own and use this radios.I remaind you,people,that I've paid appox $3800 for them,which includes the costs of the radios+costums duties+the repairs.I confess that by trusting in which I thought it was a great lebel ( RadioActive Radio) I was a stupid.They are nothing what they say they are.In the present I still waiting news about my radios,still trying by e-mails and phone calls to reached them...

 

stay away from them i have paid for a radio absolutely no contact them after 3 months and no radio

 

I have read on another forum a "teardown" of the whack pack. The way they did it was not at all the proper way, very incomplete. The proper way giving an example for the 148GTL is included in this post (assuming the PDF file attaches, the schematic is also included, very necessary to understand this, and so that the parts involved can be looked up and understood).

This said, one thing the NPC mod or whack pack does, is it makes the final amp run in what the author calls 'linear' mode, or at full 13.6V rather than at about half that. It's not that the amp is suddenly made more linear but that it is then run with its SSB parameters. On SSB this higher voltage is OK but on AM, which is much more demanding on an amplifier stage, it will overheat the final. Perhaps a heat sink is in order. I didn't try to go there.

So read the directions and the schematic together to understand. The allegation is that the '(super) whack pack' does not include everything, just a shortcuts to reduce the cost and time spent. Yet those people are reported to charge a lot of money.

Not all radios are the same as the 148GTL. Some have modulation transformers. the procedure is different for every radio.

As for my self this is an academic interest. I prefer the 148GTL to be left alone as it is a fine radio as designed.

View attachment cobra 148GTL NPC mod.txt

View attachment cobra_148gtl_schematic_cad_redraw.pdf

 

Bells CB in Florida has always done me right....

Radioactive is on the CB shop blacklist!

 

Shoot me the contact info will u. I cant seem to find RAR anymore. Thanks

 

i was charged pretty close to 1000.00 for a new radio modified and a few other items they took my money and sent me nothing they will not respond stay away from them i had good experience with them in the past

 

i was charged pretty close to 1000.00 for a new radio modified and a few other items they took my money and sent me nothing they will not respond stay away from them i had good experience with them in the past

 

i was charged pretty close to 1000.00 for a new radio modified and a few other items they took my money and sent me nothing they will not respond stay away from them i had good experience with them in the past

 

i was charged pretty close to 1000.00 for a new radio modified and a few other items they took my money and sent me nothing they will not respond stay away from them i had good experience with them in the past

 

His website, radioactiveradios.com, seems to be down at the moment. But I found this tidbit online about the guy:

http://mugshots.com/US-Counties/Arizona/Maricopa-County-AZ/Michael-T-Kersnowski.7963778.html

And his BBB page isn't any better:

http://www.bbb.org/phoenix/business...tive-radios-llc-in-casa-grande-az-1000011108/