The one who's Customer dominate the 11 meter band from coast to coast without even trying. I'm still waiting to find another technician better than him but I haven't found one yet
The whole point of that video is to demonstrate that if your technician cannot tune a receiver to hear a -125db signal at 3 KHZ bandwidth, Then it's time for you to find a new technician. Good luck finding another technician that can provide those results. If you find one let me know. I still haven't found another one
It isn't that important to hit -125, is it? With the amount of just terrestrial noise being created, it is a number that is worthless.
Who cares about "hitting -125" - the point is making sure the noise generated within the radio itself, by its various components in the signal path, is at an absolute minimum. It's a benchmark to achieve when tuning, to ensure the radio is as good as it can possibly be. If you can't see the real-world value in such a standard, I don't know what to tell you.
The noise generated within the radio itself during the manufacturing process can be removed or minimized by a competent reengineering of the circuits involved. And during the 10 years of driving from California to Pennsylvania not a single person was capable of hearing as far as I was able to hear. The question I was asked most often was am I sitting on top of a mountain on a base station or where was I located because I can't hear the person you're talking to. I often got accused of talking to myself because nobody in my vicinity was capable of hearing the person I was talking to 40 or 50 miles up the road. I could also hear people in the vicinity of the person I was talking to asking him who he was speaking to because they were unable to hear me. This happened every day for 10 years. The only time somebody near me was able to hear the person that was talking to me was if that person had his radio tuned by the same person that Tuned mine. The whole point of this is that unless your technician is capable of tuning receiver in the same way that mine is tuned you will be unable to hear as far as I do. the only thing holding people back from awesome receive is listening to ham radio operators Who have never experienced receive like this telling 11 meter operators that it's completely unnecessary. But if you and I are driving down the interstate and I happen to be having a friendly conversation with someone far up the road and you are unable to hear that person you will be wishing that your receive is as good as mine.
another way of looking at it is if everybody had receive like mine nobody would be compelled to spend money on amplifiers to reach out further because if the guy on the other and had good receive the guy on the transmit side wouldn't need an amplifier to be heard on the other end
I can't count the number of times that people with stock cobra 29 radios told me they couldn't believe how far their radio was transmitting. My response was always the same: " just because I hear you at this distance doesn't mean that anyone else can" I always made a point of giving credit where credit was due. get the picture?
I need to clarify the only reason the guy with the stock cobra 29 could hear me so far away was because of my illegal amplifier. If he had receive like mine I wouldn't have needed the amplifier to make the trip back to him.
