Leaving CB on

Your radio would have to put off some real heat to keep it warm enough to reduce the resistance of the knobs in the winter

 

LOL that's funny. Must be a BIG radio

 

Wont be much longer before it catches fire, then you'll have a smokin hot radio.

 

i have a galaxy 99. as the radio has gotten older, it has developed a slight freq drift when its cold. when its warmed up and on freq it wont move a bit. but when i turn it on and its cold, it starts at 27.186 and sometimes 187. so i tune it down and then it goes to .184 as it warms up. then i tune it back to 185 and its fine until i turn it off.

i hardly ever spend the night in the truck, but when i do, i turn the volume all the way down and i turn the display off. its just a quirk of an older radio. maybe one day i will get it to a shop, but the guy who worked on it retired after 60 years in the business.

 

My brand new Galaxy does the same thing cold. Once it warms up it stays dead on.

 

id be mad if a new radio did that. i can see mine doing it as its over 10 years old now i guess. its been aligned, and it is dead on freq, but something is making it drift. probably the freq control board. i wont know until i send it in to have it checked out. but for now. i just deal with it. by the time i catch my logbook up, start the truck to build air pressure and do a pretrip, its usually ready to go.