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You clowns are a nuisance. Why don't you get into h.a. m. Radio and free up the airways for truckers. No one is impressed how far away you are or all your 1970s tech you brag about. Must be lonely in your basement. What I've heard sounds borderline insanity with the repetion and squabbling with each other. I only wish you could hear us on truck cbs so we can tell you off.

 

You talking about ham radio or cb?

because you described many issues with ham radio, like those clowns on 40 in I think Alabama or the morons in Texas who threaten people if they try to break in on a repeater.

this crap is everywhere.

 

I know nothing about CB at all. The guys that talk on skip. Are they on CB’s? Are they base stations? And do they sound so bad because it’s far away or is that just they way they sound always?

One thing I can’t get people around here to fix is…they have a good, powerful radio. So they crank the echo and proceed to talk loudly/ scream into the mic. You can only make out some of what they are saying.

Just yesterday I got into with one and he wanted to be smart about it. His buddies only halfway agreed with me because they didn’t want to hurt his feelings I guess. So dumb.

We are on narrow backroads in PA/OH/WV with a convoy of trucks. Communication is very important. Sometimes we have an escort, sometimes we don’t. Depends on the customer. One oncoming four wheeler can make things hectic really quick. The shoulders are ditches or cliffs. No pull-off room.

 

Ham guys, seen this??? Talk about possible interference.

 

If the problem was fixed, the distortion wouldn't have been present at 900 megahertz in the audio spectrum. Dave quit using that radio because everybody was making fun of how badly it sounded after he got it back from Mike.

Not at all. The radio is the limiting factor of how the audio sounds. You can sweep it on test equipment and visually see exactly how it will sound at every audio frequency within the audio spectrum regardless of what microphone you decide to plug into it.

What's your point? That has nothing to do with the limitations of the transmitter. You can plug any microphone into my radio and it will sound excellent. You will probably have to experiment with many different microphones until you find one that you think sounds how you want it to sound on your radio. When you remove the limitations by maximizing fidelity, it won't matter what microphone you plug into your radio. If your radio is incapable of producing a specific sound at a specific frequency, you're lying to yourself If you say that there is a magical microphone that will mysteriously allow your radio to defy the laws of physics and produce that sound even though the radio is incapable of producing that sound at that specific frequency.
I hope you realize the laws of physics cannot be broken even if you want them to be broken.

 

Well I guess we'll see what the FCC is made of these days. Unfortunately money talks.

 

I stand by what I said.

 

This is the third or fourth time that a petition has come up for a DRM type of shortwave broadcast system in the states. There is little problems overseas with it, but here as many hams are panicking, it seems they don't want to lose access to the bands. I would worry about the 40 meter bank, the guy in the video keeps talking about the 20 meter band but we already have shortwave transmission happening and no one seems to be complaining.

 

I'm going to ding you a bit with this one.

Dude, the microphone is where sound is produced, the radio converts that sound into a radio wave, physics dictates that. The sound within the radio wave is very dependent on what produces the sound, so if you have a crapy mic, then you have a crapy sound in the radio wave, and this is phsyics.

 

Either you're trolling or you missed the point.
Distortion rarely occurs within the microphone itself. A 99 cent microphone element can faithfully reproduce any sound it hears. The transmitter may or may not be able to reproduce the sound coming from the microphone. Limitations rarely occur within the microphone itself. As I'm sure you are aware, you could plug any Heil microphone into any radio but without drastic modifications, The radio will not be able to utilize the full bandwidth of the microphone or accurately reproduce the sound coming from the microphone. The limitations are always the transmitter unless the microphone itself is defective which is almost never the case. If you knew how to use test equipment, you could accurately predict the ability of the transmitter to accurately reproduce any sound you inject into that transmitter.