Bells cb and why...

I'd love to hear how I'm being ripped off and how I would be much better off purchasing a radio from someone else but I would also require some sort of evidence to indicate why I would be much better off otherwise it's just a bunch of BS. Everything he does is for your benefit and if you choose not to benefit then that's your problem. Everything I do is also for your benefit and if you choose to ignore my experience which you're never going to have well that's also your problem.
And I'll say it again for the benefit of people with zero radio experience that a stock Cobra 29 will outperform anything you have, and the minute your army buddy or NASA radio technician or whatever he calls himself touches that Cobra 29 performance will always be less and it will cost you more for Less performance. Since I'm sure your buddy doesn't work for free so you would have to pay the cost of the radio plus the cost of your buddies labor for a reduction in performance.
I fail to see value in that equation.

Possibly because the guy that started the thread is encouraging other people to throw away their money so they also can have a radio with an 80% performance reduction.
Then when I suggested people spend less money with an 80% Improvement in performance from amazon.com he got offended and mentioned Mark's name and started some sort of nasty pointless debate.

Actually he's quite busy fixing hacked up radios from Bells radio shop and he doesn't have the time to waste reading a pointless debate about something he's already discussed and proven.

 

I see the value in the information you posted just now. It hit me like BAM and I considered it. It was tough to accept what you said about my radios at first, but I scrapped everyone of them.

I have to forget everything I've ever known about cb's and either get out of it altogether or go back to college for an RF engineering degree with a minor in science. Thank you for putting it in simple terms where us dummies can understand it.

Oh and take that @wolverine11 !

 

I have never purchased a radio from Bells, but Im curious, with absolute certainty what exactly does Bells do to " hack up a radio" besides adjusting modulation to 125%? Does he spread coils, clip limiter, perform other mods that would make signal distorted, only asking a fair question not trying to start WWIII.

 

It's a typical truck stop hack job. 125% modulation on the negative Peaks I'm sure you can imagine how nasty that would be. He hasn't figured out how to limit the modulation on the negative Peaks so when he cranks it up to 125% that's both positive and negative Peaks, and then it flat tops on the positive Peaks and then it pinches on the negative pigs and then it talks on all 40 channels at the same time and maybe 2% of the power is transmitted on the fundamental frequency.
Here's his latest victim. Notice he won't show you a perfect waveform on the scope and it's only for show since he doesn't know how to use it and he wants you to focus all your attention on the meter.

 

So at 2% only 1 watt on intended frequency, guess I find that figure low.

 

Assuming a 50 watt radio obviously.

 

Shouldnt a 2517 be good to go stock out of the box?

 

Lets both go back to college and get out of this rat race.

 

I just threw that number out there because without any real test equipment you're not going to have an actual number. The thing is that same radio purchased from amazon.com at 90% modulation would easily outperform his "tune" at 125% modulation and would do so for less money.

 

What kind of distance can you get out of a Fine Tune radio? Not SSB, just regular cb. (With a proper antenna set up).