955 or General Lee

Kelly has made my radios work very well. Between that and great stock radios, I'll take my business to those who want it.

 

Exactly

 

Do what

 

So back to the actual topic at hand here. I've owned several general lee's over the years and have had a 655 stryker for avout four years but have only used it for about 6 months total. And i will say im not impressed with the stryker overall. It has great audio but i dont think built very well at all. The colors on my faceplate change by it self in different areas, the channel selector is loose, and just yesterday my variable power got all funky where its either all the way down or all the way up and at the same time my swr went from 1.2:1 to 2.8:1.

I think ill be getting it fixed and selling it and going back to radios i know and trust.

 

I'm not sure who tuned your radio or if it was tuned. I know on mine if I can hear you I can talk to you (considering the other station isn't running heaps of power). And like I said I've only used my radio for about 6 months total. And I've only had it in a big truck for less than 3 of those months and it's already giving me issues. If I had the 955 I'd probably fix it and keep it for the base station since it has good SSB.

 

@BTShepp Steve @ Q5 in Madison (DeForest, actually) is much better at tuning than Kelly is, just FYI... give him a try sometime.

 

Once you get the receive aligned and the noise floor lowered you will be able to hear out into the distance no problem.

 

@Broke Down 69 where all do you run?

Also you're not running on 28MHz are you? You do have to remove a tiny resistor to do the conversion so it will work on 11 meters. Most shops will not do the conversion alone for fear that someone asking for that might be an FCC agent trying to bust them. And since Walcott *has* had the FCC nail them in the past, I would imagine they wouldn't do just a conversion either.

Anyway, I bought my 955 at Clay's Radio Shop in San Antonio (I-10 exit 582) and I've always gotten tons of good reports on it. Additionally, the receive is absolutely phenomenal and he actually spent more time on the receive than anything else when he tuned the radio.