peaking a cb radio

You wanna know what I think... I think this Carolina Thunder is more of a Carolina Blunder that's full of CRAP! From reading this guys posts...I wouldn't let him come near my radios if HE paid ME! I have 2 radios now...a Connex 3400HP and a Cobra 29 LTD Classic. I'd bet my paycheck that my VERY powerful, VERY LOUD, VERY clean, VERY clear, 29 would walk all over his BS "peaked & tuned" radio as long as my power switch was in the "on" position! The tech that I use, has worked on CB's since they first came into existence. He spent 23 yrs working on radios for the military, and is praised by drivers far and wide. I HIGHLY HIGHLY doubt that CT aka CBS&%t 's self tuned radios could hold a candle to the work this tech does! Just because CT has clipped a few wires doesn't mean hes a creditable tech! Gathering info online isn't going to cut it either...in short, CT is fully of crap and is only hating on those of us that run "big" radios and cut his lips off everyday! Period!

 

MODS.Dont pull his post,i think its funny!

And by your very own "big radios and cuts his lips off everyday " comment i see that you,like 99% of everyone else has bought into the same old BS crap that has been spewed by countless CB techs for the last 20 years.Your just the type of person CB techs love to see walk into there shops. Someone who is to stupid to think for themselves,just another cb tech sheep! Even after reading the technical article i posted you still buy into that crap and think i'm full of BS??? You must love pissing your money away!
Lets see,you have been trucking for one year,well that would most likely mean that you have completely no clue as to what you are talking about and gotten every bit of info from your local hack and clip cb techs. If you would have read any of my posts you would know that i dont clip anything and that i dont add any wires that need not be there! I learned my lesson on Cb tech stupidity years ago and now only allow 3 in the nation to work on my radios.I would guess you would let any monkey with a meter and a power supply into your radio as long as they made your radio swing like a raped ape.

I was not aware that there were any CB techs that were over 110 years old,because to be as you stated he would to need be at least that old.

Where in he hell do you think all of the info comes from that is on some of these web sites? Cb tricks is used by CB techs all over the world because the information that is posted on that site is the best and most accurate, not to mention that some of the people that post up that information for all to see and or on their forum are THE VERY BUILDERS of the radios you and i like to use! If you had a clue about what you were talking about (which you dont) you would know that the guy who built Stryker radios is there,alone with Techs from RCI and Galaxy! These are not people who just work on them,they designed them and you think your cb tech knows more than the people who built them,LMAO!

I myself have had ( like Trams,Brownings,yeasu's,Dak's,just to name a few ) and do have radios that you have never seen and would not even know how to use,run enough power (supplied by amps such as Henry,Drake,Elkin,Pride,Keathkit ) that would melt your little coax ( bet you think all coax is the same,lol!) and talked further on less power than you have ever even thought about,lol! I have close friends that run over 40 thousand bird watts, (ever heard of Mr 105 ) oh I'm sorry,you dont know what bird watts are do you....hahaha....I have built and tuned radios that have been in use by the same people for the last 10 years and much like my own radios,have never gotten nothing but great on air reports.

I doubt that you even own a radio does does a true 40 watts little on know the difference between a good radio job vs a poor one!



Ask your tech if he uses it,i bet he like everyone else does. If he does not then he is just like everyone else,tuning a radio with out any clue as to how to correctly do it. One of the techs i use in NC has worked for the state repairing the radios used by state and local law enforcement,fire and rescue for over 20 years,not to mention a being ham op who even uses CB tricks.

This shows exactly what you know and that's a whole lot of nothing!

Oh and if you thought your post would get under my skin your sadly mistaken.It will take more than a clueless child to do that!

 

By the way.Who is this CB tech you use? I know of most of them, tell me oh great one....so that i may use him as well,since my understanding is so limited.

"Interests. Fishing, Hunting, and Civil War Relic hunting..AKA..Metal Detecting. O, lets not foregt Martial Arts "
Oh wait,i have to back up on the stupid comments now. If this is your hobby then you cant be to stupid,dont know squat about radios and such maybe but at least your are out trying to dig up a history that very few people even care enough to think about anymore. For that, i commend you.
I just wish there were more that cared about this nations history because with they what they teach our kids in schools these days,that part of history is dying fast!

 

I went and looked at some of your posts. You use dtbradio as one of your techs and you think im full of BS! He is also one of the top guys on CB tricks,ask him. I also bet that he will tell you the same things that i have posted here are true. This is the ONLY tech i would let even look inside my radio thats above the VA state line.
I have never heard of this man doing anything half assed with any radio he does. You know how he learned alot of his stuff? From reaserch and doing it himself,just like i have.

 

I did not think you would respond to these past posts,oh well. But that's fine,if your unwilling to learn then that's your choice. I went to far in my comments to you Longshot,i should not have called you stupid or a child and for all of that,i'm sorry.

 

The one thing all this has missed. Yes you can tune and tweak a radio transmit and receive with out a System monitor and it will sound good on the channel your talking on. PROBLEM. What does it sound like on the 1st 2nd and 3rd harmonic of that Freq. and how wide is the signal your putting out over the air. That is where all the problems come in with tuning with out a scope or a Monitor. The out put power and modulation is not all you need to worry about when doing a proper alignment and tune on a radio. The receive you need a good signal gen to adjust and align the receive for optimum performance. There are always ways to do a job that will work and then there is the correct and proper way to do it. The problem with most of these mods you see on the net is they don't take into consideration that the engineers have designed all the components to work with each other in the order and the settings they have when they ship them. Once you change any voltage resistance or capacitance in any circuit you change the over all performance and reliability of that circuit. So with out the System monitor to properly check the out put and the receive you have no way to accurately measure the over all performance and reliability of the equipment you have just changed. Yes i have tuned radios with a watt meter and a dummy load its a good quick fix and band aid its just not a proper and reliable way to do it.

 

Oh your completely correct on that kd5drx,there is way more to tuning a radio than just a basic P&T but if all you want is just a Basic peak and tune then $15.000 worth of equipment is not needed to do that! The point that i was trying to make was that anyone with a little time and very little one time cash spent can do just a basic peak and tune ( then be able to tune just about any radio they buy from then on,that couple hundred dollars spent to buy a few things seems like a deal over the long run ) which is what all but a very few cb techs do to radios in the first place,that was it!

The original question was,how do i peak my cb radio??

I had one shop in cali tune and check my new 99 (shop not 2 miles from my house has a display case of em!) this past summer with all of the needed equipment and the radio works just as good as any of the other radios i have done myself. The only difference is that he removed about 8 to 10 small parts that increased the over all power level with out being over modulated,the limiter still in it and the mod adjustment is not maxed out. Even he sets the SSB freq and bias ( As does the tech i mentioned above ) by using an Icom 706 as a receiver, while listening,if you know what to listen for you can do it like that and when you check the settings to see if they match factory specs,9 times out of 10 there spot on!

This tech even told me after checking my radio out before he even turned a screw, that the radio was dead on in every aspect and i use just the basic equipment ( Yeasu For a receiver,30 amp power supply,1500 watt dummy load,multimeter and a high quality power meter ). The only reason i even went into his shop in the first place was because of the equipment he had (so he could check my work ) and because he seemed to know a great deal about radios,then i decided to let him do what he wanted to, to my radio just to see if he really knew what he was doing,and he did.
I mean,kd5drx ( this is your call sign i'm guessing ) your are a ham op right? If so then you know that if you want to talk SSB and sound really good then you had #### sure better know how to tune your radio or have a shop that does. I love to talk SSB and the only time someone can tell a difference between my cb radios and my converted ( yeah,i know) ham rigs is if i tell them,that's no lie! My last 2 new RCI 2995's that i converted and tuned my self are still in use by friends back home and they talk DX on 38 LSB or 27.555 USB and always get great reports. I mean,if an old crazy trucker like myself can get results like this then why cant anyone else? YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF!

I have one more thing to say on this and that's it.

If people like wasting their money on the very same things they them selves can do at home,so be it. The only reason i even try and point all of this stuff out is because I'm sick of truckers getting screwed by over priced techs ( $650.00 for a used $475.00-new price connex,$60.00+ for a $20.00 Connex board,$25.00+ for a useless swing kit that has about $1.50 worth of parts in it, $40.00 for a $5.00 1969 final and Techs who use messed with power meters that show all kinds of power just so trucker will be quick to hand out their hard earned cash.The DOT screws us enough already) the likes of which that have screwed me over more times than i care to admit.
So if people dont care about who does what,for how much to their radios and refuse to listen to someone who has been there,done that, then i'm not going to wast my time on them anymore!

 

Can't take the deep stuff anymore. Off to the special list you go.

 

115 year old tech

CB as we know it started in 1958 replacing the old A and B UHF stuff ...

BTW ALL VOLILINES and old CB from the UHF days are ILLEGAL to even turn them on ! They use REGEN receivers with no buffering stage and will screw up 460 -465 mhz systems I have seen them sold in E-Bay AVOID THEM ......

 

I was getting ready to ask if one of those ancient CB's built before Sept 11 1958 would allow you to talk to anyone now, as that band was relocated to other radio services.

Please let me know if you see another one on eBay or know of any good pics/info. I'm into nostalgia and always wanted to see one.