Ghost in the Machine

I will take another look at that to see if I can turn it off.

Thank you for the responses.

 

Tater, all I require is to hear and be heard. I found this particular unit attractive and bought it. It has the same basic guts as a 29LTD, which was a reliable until recently. Looks like I only need to get that chip removed. I don't see any sense in spending the kind of money it takes to get a Galaxy and all the BS that comes with it and I have no need at all for 200 watts.

 

Well, I got rid of the "ghost." Since the radio needed a bench tune anyway, I asked what needed to happen to shut the weather channel up. Actually, it was pretty simple. (After the tech got over his belly laugh and showed me a fairly impressive pile of weather channel boards and told of all kinds of stories from drivers about the auto-alert, including one individual who claimed it was the FBI spying on him.) He looked inside my radio. No external channel board. It is now integrated into the main board.

There are two wires going to the antenna. One is a thick grey wire, the other a thin yellow wire. He clipped the thick grey wire and sealed off the bare end. No more weather channel. And no more getting the &$%# scared out of me on a peaceful night with the CB turned off. And, thanks to the bench tune, my radio now throws 25W, up from 4. More than enough for me.

In the process, though, I found out the pretty wood-grain Cobra microphone I had purchased for $60 to replace my Wilson with the dog-chewed wire was a POS. I took it in with the radio to find out whether it was part of the reason the general response to my transmissions was, "What'd she say?" The dog-chewed Wilson is now reattached to the radio. Until I can replace it once more.

Suggestions as to model of microphone are welcome, keeping in mind I have no use for echo, beeps or other irritatingly distorting effects. I simply want a clear transmission that doesn't sound like I'm talking into a tin can or an empty shower room.