General Lee CB Radio

Okay, the radio is back! Kelly worked miracles.
Before:
Squelch knob rotated 360 degrees
No modulation limiters, so it splattered and sounded terrible, including talk back audio.
Even with noise-cancelling mics, easily squealed with talkback on external speaker that works fine on all my other radios.
When I tested it with my handheld radio, the General would squeal on RX even though I was standing over 10 feet away from the car with the handheld....my other radios would be fine receiving from the handheld even in the car! Couldn't handle close-in signals at all. (Didn't have apparent problems receiving further away signals).

After:
All problems above fixed, plus installed a red S/RF meter LED to match red channel selector. He also reversed the TX/RX LED so it was red during RX, making it homogeneous with meter LED and channel display, and it turns green on TX. Cleaned potentiometers.

Cost was $60 for work, and $24 for insured return shipping from Nevada to Illinois. No regrets. He salvaged this General Lee from the hack who worked on it before.

 

I have five mobile units and a handheld unit. I also have three external antennas, and one more antenna on the way right now. I need to stop acquiring more! When I go on road trips with friends, it is nice to be able to throw radios in their vehicles. They don't know anything about CB radio but they do come to appreciate it.

 

I've come to really

That's why I love a good magnet antenna. You can utilize the best location on a vehicle without doing any drilling. New cars especially make it hard to get a ground, but the magnet will achieve the ground through capacitance.

 

Echo is great for telling other people they have too much echo. The other day, some guy was having a casual conversation but his echo was high enough to be really distracting and hard to understand. I waited for a break, and then with my echo almost all the way up, I keyed up and said you're running too much echo. He turned it down and asked it was better. I wonder if he would've complied had I not had echo....