Mark S. @ Fine Tune CB (Hardrive)

Rabbi,

What seems to be could be bs. The tech has little to do with it, these are simple radios with simple circuitry and is not prone to being more than what the frequency allows.

If you want to find some one, then step away from the crap that one person is the best and look around. Having a standard based on nothing more than tuning and tweaking means little when you end up realizing there are far more talented people who know far much more than a hard to get a hold of guy who has everyone fooled and thy can be found.

 

Looking around is precisely my point and precisely what I've done for the past 30 years. I keep my ears open and I pay attention to the radio stations that transmit the farthest and the first question out of my mouth is "who tuned that radio"
I also pay attention to the stations coming in Via skip when no other station is capable of making that same trip even though they are in the same proximity as the station that is currently talking.
When someone comes in crystal clear and they sound like they are 10 feet away from me but they are a ridiculous distance away which seems to defy all logic I always ask that person whether the radio is stock or if it has been tampered with by someone and who that person might be and 99% of the time Mark Sherman was the guy that worked on it . Most people don't think about asking questions like this instead they ask stupid questions like "what kind of radio is that" .
I've been around long enough to understand that the manufacturer of the radio has nothing to do with the performance of the radio especially after it has been tampered with .
There is this thing called " the white list of cb shops to trust" .
Everybody on that list has some sort of formal training . The funny thing is, none of those radios perform like what I am accustomed to .
When there's 200 stations in San Diego trying to talk to me because I'm pegging their needle, and the only station to make the trip back to me is Stringbean 379,
It's no longer a coincidence that he is the only person able to make the trip even though there's 200 other people attempting to make the trip .
People like to dismiss it as coincidence or Mother Nature but if that was true lots of other people would be able to make the trip as well .

 

Here's a scientific experiment that proves the technician has everything to do with how your station performs.
2 Galaxy 99's tuned by Jack T one of the best technicians in the country also on the white list at the time. 2 Galaxy 99's tuned by Mark S also on the white list at the time.
2 radios were installed in my ex-wifes Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2 radios were installed in my Grand Cherokee. And an
a/b switch was installed in each vehicle allowing us to switch back and forth between the two different radios.
She got one of Jacks and one of Marks.
I got one of Jacks and one of Marks.
We started the experiment using Jack's radios.
I was sitting at Exit 159 off Interstate 81 the whole time .
My ex drove South on 81 until I could barely hear her and she reported she was at mile marker 140. She then proceeded to switch over to Marks radio and drove another 8 Miles to the 132 when I could barely hear her. I then switched over to Marks radio and I could hear her loud and clear although she was barely moving my needle.
She made it down to exit 119 talking on marks radio and I was listening on marks radio before she finally faded out of my receiver. Coincidence I think not. I got 22 extra miles with marks radios as opposed to Jacks radios.

 

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Performance out of a Jeep with a fiberglass whip attached to a ball mount high on the quarter panel will always outperform performance out of a tractor trailer. But it does show that not all technicians are created equal and that just because the radios were identical,
The radio is only as good as the technician that tuned it.

 

Multiplying the power by 15x only doubled the distance

 

Rabbi,

Sorry but I don't really believe you can judge someone else's work by just listening to a radio or seeing someone's YouTube video.

Signal propaganda is a funny creature, it isn't one of these things that is predictable nor easy to understand. There isn't a special physics for 11m opposed to other frequencies.

Many times it is location and condition that dictate where a signal goes, but overall what is claimed is some what bs.

So I do a lot of antenna experiments and I usually can talk all over the world on a few watts and a piece of wire. Many times people can't believe that but did that just this morning on 10 meters. I didn't need a super duper tech tuned radio but used a converted CB for it. I had a 24 inch wire on the back of the radio hanging out the window in my truck this morning.

However I want to show you something ... We'll see if you get it.

I put a new antenna together a while back, it is a 75 foot piece of 16 gauge wire in a one and a half inch piece of plastic conduit with spacers to center the wire. I buried it in a four foot deep ditch and the put a ground rod where the wire entered the ground to tie one feed line to ground and the other to the wire in the conduit.

Now I wonder if you can answer this question.

Could that work?


Now one of these super duper techs that is mentioned in this forum said to me it is impossible to bury an antenna and have it work. I won't mention the name of this guy but needless to say he was sure it would not work and told me I was a dummy.

 

I know a guy that ran a Pirate Radio Station transmitting from railroad tracks.
He was even able to transmit from a chain link fence using an antenna tuner, so an antenna buried underground encapsulated in PVC pipe sounds totally feasible

 

Lol! Railroad tracks and a fence. Not doubting that but it made me LOL!

 

You can make any piece of metal talk with an antenna tuner. That's what all the hams use. They don't seem to care too much about efficiency it seems to be more about the convenience of being able to talk across a huge Spectrum without having to change antennas for each band and sitting in the armchair and turning the knob on the antenna tuner to give the false appearance of an efficient antenna system.