Honest CB guy or shop needed..

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Originally Posted by cbdoctor

I wrote that book and I have also built in excess of 119,000 LINEAR CLASS "AB" AMPS under my own brand name, Golden Eagle!



BTW, I was an amateur extra for over 40 years but my liscense lapsed and I have never renewed--will have to take test again.

Billy Dean Ward


You say that you were an Amateur Extra for over 40 years? If so why would you write The Design, Manufacture, Repair, and Matching Of Linear Amplifiers For The CB Industry, Or simply (The Linear Amp Bible)? For which Linears in CB WAS, and STILL is 100% ILLEGAL? And I guess you are very proud to have shown people how to break the Law. I guess some people will do anything for a buck!

 

I heard there's a trustworthy shop # the Petro in West Memphis. FYI. "STAY AWAY FROM CHANNEL 5 CB SHOP". Their shop is run down, trashy and the only guy that has knowledge is hardly there.

 

I see that we are looking for an honest "C.B. Guy/gal" here in this thread. I know the two of you are bickering about linears and such but, can we please stay with the thread subject and can you please take your "stuck-up braggin' know-it-all knowledge" to your own thread? I would like to know of any great cb shops myself and I wasn't looking for pictures of antique hams.
Nobody is posting enough in this thread about good c.b. shops or "honest c.b. guys/gals" instead you're all talking about a completely different subject and spamming this thread which titles a completely different subject.

Dr. Radio or Radio Doctor whatever. Start a "new thread" about your knowledge and see if you get any hits there. The other who have responded "might" have been a little ticked off that you are ranting and bragging about linear amps when we are discussing about "Honest C.B. shops or Guys/gals."
I've explained it again in different ways for you to read.
Please do us truckers and c.b.er's a favour and, "start your own thread on your own topic???" Thnx, Kevin.

 

Kevin, I am going to answer this one thing and then get off of this thread. I was just trying to point out something that is important if you are going to get your radio worked on. You do not want to go into a cb shop asking for what this guy was saying was necessary because it is not only NOT necessary but WRONG!!!! As far as another thread, I have posted thousands of times on the internet--Google me!

And, BTW, Kevin, there are NO LAWS GOVERNING CB<---READ THAT CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU REBUTTLE IT!

And I didn't do it for a buck--try $3,000,000.

CB Radio amplifiers DO NOT have cerrtification numbers and I believe that you know that; so was it a trick question? However, if the number would have been required, my amps would have passed any certification test that a ham amp would be required to pass. 2nd, 3rd, and 5th, all down 62dB or more.

I took the test at the same speed everyone else took it at, 20 words per minute-administered at the

FCC office
555 Battery St.
San Fransisco CA
(Sorry I don't remember the Zip it was 1962)
(at which time I could copy 36 WPM.)

That was the same place that I took my First
Class Radiotelephone exam with radar endorsement in 1966

Marty Volkoff was the Engineer In Charge at that time over the San Fransisco office and the monitoring station at Livermore CA.

Call was WA6DSE (DUMB SIDEBAND ENGINEER) from Turlock California
Member of the Turlock Amateur Club until 1979

Built a 50,000 ERP FM station from the ground up.

I do not ever remember seeing a class "C" final amplifier section with modulation applied to the base of the final. It is quite normal to apply it to the collector of the final and to the collector of the driver.

I am the one that intrtoduced NPC-RC (Negative Peak Compression-Reduced Carrirer) to the CB radio forums

http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/cbdoctor/npcrc.html

and I generally remove the modulation from the final and modulate either just the driver or the driver and AND the pre-driver instead. That allows full voltage on the final amplifier. However, the real reason for putting the RED WIRE ON THE BOTTOM (RWOB) is to keep from burning out the AM Regulator Transistor Modulator Transistor.

What else do you need to know? I know of about 3 or maybe 4 CB shops on the planet that knows how to set up Ranger-Built radios prooerly including alignment of the pll to factory specs. One of them is ME.

I didn,t come here to give my credentials and I haven't even started to give them all but what else do you need to know so that you can believe me--YOUR STATEMENT ABOVE WAS WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

i am looking for a trust worthy cb shop in the nashville tn area myself around the I-24 area i need some work done and am tired of shops that dont know what they are doing any help would be nice

 

There is a shop in the TA at Antioch at exit 62 but I have no idea anything about them so your on your own there.

If you ever get up 65N stop at exit 58 Horse Cave Ky and see "big dummy". He has the cb shop at the end of the parking lot of the drivers travel center which is on the opposite side of the interstate from the Loves. He is pretty decent he has worked on a couple radios for me in the past.

 

How about the CB shops that use the internet as their business, I've read about a couple of them anybody got any feedback on those places.

 

Sparkys cb shack is very good, but there is a lot of them to stay away from!

 

They don't have certification because you cannot LEGALY build them .... I would love to see a CB exsemption
As for passing HAM radio why did you not get certified you could if they were that good.
Sadly if what else you have stated is true maybe its best your NOT a ham .......

I have had my 1st class since finshing electronics school in 1967 and took mine at the FCC in New York BEFORE I went in to PART 90 I worked in RF for many years untill the goverment jobs dried up I work in 2 way radio for a Law enforcement agancy and will retire in just over 4 years.

BTW Say hi to KEVEN ......who ever he is ......

 

That is supersticiously freaky!!! I never quoted in the reply chuckling about posting your knowledge to make a buck!!! I was sitting right next to my brother-in-law telling him about all your posts and such as what I had said previously and, told him, "he's probably just doing this to make an honest buck."...or so I can't remember exactly how I said it to him, but that is supernaturally strange to me that you quoted that in your reply that

"And I didn't do it for a buck..." that is just odd. I got the goose bumps when I read that.

So, just how "intelligent" are you, cbdoctor?