Truck stop observations

I was at the Loves in Baytown Texas yesterday and when you have four truck stops at same exit you get a chance to hear quite a sampling of different radios, both good and bad. First the bad, a driver was boasting how he paid 4 g's cb shop ( located in Velaro lot) $230.00 for a peaked and tune Cobra 29 withe echo and talkback added plus two Francis attennas. It was clear that the radio (IMO) was overmodulated,distorted and anything but clear. Next up was a driver bragging about how his Galaxy 98vhp was doing 400 watts because his cb guy showed him on his meter so it had to be true, and how he had to keep his rf power and mic gain down( yea so it doesnt squeal like city boy in Deliverence) or else it was overmodulated( you think) . now for some good a driver pulled into Flying J asking if 4g's cb was open because he wanted to peak and tune his Bearcat 980 because he was only getting out about 3 miles. Thankfully they were closed and after talking to him and finding out his attenna setup on a new cascadia( were all more than familiar with that delima) I convinced him it was not his radio, save his money, and address attenna. I actually told him to check out this forum and read some of the posts, because there is enough of them. When he left going east I was able to talk to him for 5 miles so it wasnt as bad as he thought it was and his 980 sounded so much better than those other two previous radios and it was stock. And finally best sounding radio was a Galaxy 99 ( not the new v2 the original) and the driver said all he can remember having done to it was an alignment and conversion. That radio was crystal clear ,good modulation paired with an older Roadking 56 sounded awesome. Lesson learned run as close to stock as possible and happy cbing.

 

I guarentee that peaked and tuned Cobra 29 will fade out sooner then the 980

 

The 980 was stock and as I stated the 29 was peaked and tuned by 4G' s, I cant say factually that the 29 had the limiter removed but the way it sounded that would be my guess.

 

I made the mistake once of buying a cobra 29 ltd classic with the swing kit mod from GI Joes ,in lexington Ky, boy I thought I was the cats meow until I sold it to a another driver that I worked with, and when he hooked it up and talked it was complete garbage, I promptly took the radio back and gave him his money back and told him to wait and buy something else. The kicker is I cant tell you how many drivers said that radio sounded good, I truly believe that there are so many bad sounding radios out there that alot of drivers think that is normal and that is how they are suppossed to sound, sad, at least the swing kit was able to be taken out and the radio was tuned properly inside the flying hook ln lowell In by Howard. Live and learn I guess.

 

Yea rabbi same guy exit 240 on I 65, your right Hebron not lowell, from my experience with him is that he is very good with basic single final AM only radios never had him tune or work on a 10 meter export.