Radio basics

Any Electronics technicians care to comment? This is what Bob's work looks like on a scope.

 

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Is that a good thing?

 

A buddy of mine worked for R&L Carriers out of the Pittston PA terminal. I bought him a brand new Cobra 29 Chrome Edition. Installed it in his truck with a Francis 5 foot antenna and a vice grip antenna mount.
No human hands have been inside that radio since it left the factory at this point in time. My buddy was coming back from Akron Ohio doing a drop and hook heading back eastbound on Interstate 80 and he calls me to see where I'm at and which direction I'm going and it just so happens that I'm going westbound. We estimate our meeting point and about 30 minutes before I get to that point I start shouting for him. Shortly thereafter I heard him yelling for me and I asked him what mile marker he was located at. I don't remember the mile marker but I do remember he was 15 miles out.
The radio sounded great with his Road King microphone. 2 days later he decides to pay Bob a visit to get the world-famous "stage 2" tune up.
A couple days later I'm sitting at the Pilot truck stop in Pittston Pennsylvania and my buddy called me on the phone and ask me where I'm located. I told him I was at the pilot getting a cup of coffee and he told me he was about 10 minutes away coming up the turnpike. He also told me he got Bob's famous tune up. I was kind of depressed because I knew what was about to happen. A couple minutes later I barely heard an unfamiliar muffled sounding voice yelling for me.
I asked who is that calling me? Turned out it was my buddy with Bob's famous tune up 2 miles away. He was just coming through the cash box at the Pittston exit.
I told my buddy to pull over to the side of the road and let all the truck drivers at the truck stops hear what his radio sounded like and I told him to switch over to his fine-tuned General Lee that someone else tuned for him.
Everybody told him that Cobra 29 sounded like crap and he needed to get his money back. There were a few guys at the truck stop that couldn't even hear him talking that's how weak his signal was. When he switched over to his fine-tuned General Lee the difference was like night and day. He was pegging my needle and he sounded like he was sitting in a recording studio talking into an Electro Voice re20 microphone.A bunch of drivers offered to buy the General Lee from him if he decided to sell it. Crystal Clear quality audio and he was hitting me in the red with the General Lee but he was barely moving my needle with the Cobra 29 that Bob did his famous tune on.
Bone stock with a crappy antenna system I could hear him 15 miles away and after Bob's famous expensive tune I could barely hear him two miles away and I was hardly able to understand him.

Here is what a stock Cobra 29 looks like on an oscilloscope. I heard it 15 miles away with an untuned antenna system on a rusty old Mack truck.


Here is the same radio after it left Bobs shop. I was barely able to hear him two miles away.

 

If he needs someone's opinion about how his radio sounds after he gets done twisting screws without the proper test equipment it means he doesn't have a clue what he's doing and he's going inside the radio blind and hoping for the best kinda like the guy that originally did this one