I hear Hard Drive

Good morning Rabbi, just wondering when you came by to see my radios.

I didn't see you on the security cameras, you didn't come by in disguise did you as my neighbor?

See Rabbi, you don't know what I have or don't have, but I know that it isn't like what you think.

Well here is the problem, it seems you are better qualified than many of the techs that you promoted here or other places in the past.

 

No he didn't fix anything. He told the customer to use a different microphone because he lacked the skills necessary to fix the linearity problems which were causing the distortion in the lower frequencies which had nothing to do with the microphone.

If he knew how to fix the linearity problems in the radio, he wouldn't need to modify a microphone to fix the distortion which was occurring within the rf section.

How it sounds has everything to do with the radio. If a radio is incapable of producing a particular sound at a particular audio frequency, it doesn't matter what kind of microphone you plug into the radio.

You validated my point. That microphone sounds great on my radio but it sounds terrible on the radio that he tuned. Therefore, his lack of tuning ability has everything to do with how terrible it sounded.

Over a 20-year time span of sitting in the same exact location. It doesn't matter what the height is because I always sit in the same location. If I don't hear you from a distance greater than 30 miles, what's your excuse?

 

I was never trained in engineering a circuit from scratch. I was simply trained to repair a pre-existing circuit or troubleshoot a board and replace a board which was made to very high tolerances. This cheap Chinese civilian garbage is made to such sloppy specifications, Each one is completely different from the other. Neither you nor I have the skills necessary to make this cheap Chinese junk sound and perform like expensive Japanese or German made HF rigs.

 

Neither is mark, nor most of the cb techs, they are not even trained in electronics like you.

I know what that’s all about, I worked for four years on the other side of the bench doing components level repairs for communications equipment aboard ships, subcontracted to Harris. I also worked at Plessy where I was tracking defects on clansman systems.

I had little to do with sonar.

why do you think my skills are like yours?

They are not, I don’t do a lot of my own work because of my time is used other places. I have a tech who does work for me as I explained a few years back.

which Japanese or German radios?

 

Apparently you don't understand the work he does.

You admitted your limitations in the past. You also failed to recognize what you were looking at when you looked at one of Mark's radios.
If you looked a little deeper and checked component values, you should ask yourself why so many different components had been changed. Without understanding the mathematical calculations involved, you would never be able to understand why those components were changed in the first place.
To the average person looking inside of one of his radios you would think it was factory components. In the past you said his work is nothing special and you even compared his work to your own. But then in other posts you have admitted you didn't have the ability to make something perform the way you wanted it to perform.

 

Well he did fix the problem in the customers radio, even though you said he didn't. At the end Mike said he had to modify the low pass filter so that the SL41 mic sounded better. Mike didn't say he modified the microphone, I thought he did, that was my mistake. He said that his voice (Mikes) sounds awful on the SL41 mic, and that's why he uses the Astatic 537 mic. Plus he explains how everyones voice is different. You say that "how it sounds has everything to do with the radio", but your wrong again. The microphone is the beginning of the audio section of any radio. I can tell you for a fact that the cheap cobra dynamic mics such as the SA-73 that come with the corbra 29's and 25's sound fuzzy. But I actually have one SA-73 mic that came with a cheap cobra 19 III, that sounds just as good as hard drives radios sound. Plus this same mic sounds great on my other cobra radios, so don't try to tell me that the audio sound has everything to do with the radio. I guess you've never ordered an electret mic element (like the one that the SL41uses) from mousers. There's dozens of elements to chose from due to their frequency response, which is right up your alley. Once again your're trying to discredit an individuals work for no valid reason.

 

I’d rather hear hard drive than what I have been picking up in SW PA, OH, WV. The past few days have been annoying as hell.

We use 8 different channels in the local oilfield (just what Im doing now, others are used also) and we get garbage on almost all of them.

 

I understand what he does. I don't have a problem with his work, I have problems with people who shill for him which in many cases acting like he is the only one who does the work.

My limitations?

My limitations are time, not knowledge of how to do the work. You don't understand what it takes to do what I do, I have a fleet I run, I employ people which what I want to do. If I devoted my time back to the radio, sure my limitations are removed and I can enjoy it more but I don't.

Really?

like I can't tell the difference?

Why should I wonder, I understand why it is done.

Mathematical calculations?

Seriously, dude, I went through university to get a Meng sheepskin and that meant I had to learn a lot of formulas and learn how to use a ... slide rule.

Oh so I don't think Mark has anything that won't dazzle me.

I don't expect the average person looking into the radio to even find a speaker, let alonw know what was messed with.

Yeah I said I don't have the ability because of what I was using, not because of my skills.

 

Welcome to the world of CB radio. I can't stand listening to the skip on channel 6. I believe that's the reason a lot of people become ham operators.

 

It sounds so bad and they say nothing of importance. Just repeat where they are at.

The one thing that drives me completely crazy is…..AUUUUUUDIO, AUUUUUUDIO.