Peak and Tune...

Thanks turbo for your help I think I'll just try to turn it up a little

 

"This is one reason the workmanship out of many CB shops is so poor .....they lack the equiptment and remember no training is required anyone can call them selves a CB TECH"

that applies to roughly 90+% of the shops out there. next time you're in one of them ask if the technician is a GROL holder. if you find one and the shop is well equipped then you've come to the right place. due to the level of technical competency required to obtain the license you can be relatively sure that you can trust them with your "CB" equipment.

 

since the transceiver, the feedline and the antenna or antennas constitute the three primary links in any communications system, unless all of them are properly analyzed and confirmed in good working order the "cb shop" in question has not done their job.

if the tech isn't holding a GROL you're in the wrong place.

 

In 1982 the FCC ended all licensing for repair shops fixing CB radios
The rest is history .....

 

Yes, but I guess I failed to mention, the Uniden Washington I used as the 2nd test mule, was actually about 10 years older than the Cobra 25!

A bad final will still let the radio receive.

You do have a good point here, as most of them I've seen run small little antennas.

Isn't that the truth. I've talked on a Cobra 148 4 watt transmitter into a 102 whip to a truck driver 9 miles away from me once, and I wasn't on sideband either. He was impressed I could do that. The best one was the time on the same set up I talked on AM to another trucker 14 miles away, we were very faint but we could do it.

But why truckers don't use SSB, I thought had more to do with there being an extra knob to fiddle with trying to bring in the other party.

 

"In 1982 the FCC ended all licensing for repair shops fixing CB radios
The rest is history ....."

i don't care about the fcc. if they don't have a tech with a GROL then my stuff don't go there.

 

And who issued the General Radiotelephone License

 

That GROL,may be a standard but its hardly "the rule"
Thats like saying only Teamsters can drive trucks.

Plenty of top quality techs out here tuning as good as any.
Experience is what truly cuts the herd,competency on all makes/models
installed on all makes and models.

 

yeah, it's a standard. one that assures me that the person servicing my expensive radio equipment has, to some extent, a background in basic electronics and has some clue as to what constitutes a properly operating 2 way radio installation. someone who KNOWS how to properly service, repair and align the equipment, not someone who's arrogant enough to think that he can "make it better" by destroying and "modifying" the equipment, rendering circuitry inoperative as an excuse to fabricate other myths and generate sales of unnecessary accessories as represented in the thread linked to below.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...na-warning-cobra-50th-aniv-2.html#post2061315

 

AND ......

The FCC has a license to REVOKE