Truck stop observations

I suspect he has some sort of formal training. Unfortunately I think he caters to what his customers want which is over modulated distorted sounding audio. The customer should never have to tell the technician how to make adjustments.

 

I love Howard's work, and the person himself is solid. I can't say he is better than so and so, but he has done me right many times.

 

I would agree he Is better than most. 10 times better than SteelRod also.

 

I'd say 98% do not realize how far they may be getting out because the same 98% don't know that a radio can be tuned for better rx. I was that 98%. If I'd have known this info a few weeks ago I'd likely not have spent the $$ on the 98vhp. Of course, I'm not going to ditch it though. The power will likely come in handy at times, especially once it's clean.

Once i get it back and If you have a base, maybe we can set up a time and I'll try to reach you from watkins glen, NY when I'm there.

 

Most guys with stock radios are totally clueless about how far their signal is transmitted. I used to have 2 way conversations at 30 miles mobile to mobile with guys running stock Cobra 29 and they couldn't believe how far their radio was reaching out. The only reason they were able to hear me is because I was running power to compensate for their crappy receive.

 

I realize your Galaxy and my Magnum are different animals, but I questioned his work also for the same reason (my first time letting him open any of my radios). I always had to run RF gain at 1/2, afterwards 1/4 turn everything above seemed to drown out the voices in static. I took it back and magically it would listen to ends of the earth, totally clean on the bench. What I found was, he did a fine job, the problem was my truck...

I broke down and parked on shoulder in a mud puddle and again that same magic happened. Then asked around and found it had something to do with my wheel hubs and synthetic lube not conducting or discharging the static. I still don't understand how or why, but if that sounds anything like your issue I'm sure someone here can explain it.

BTW I tested this theory with a bungee cord touching ground to pavement. My solution was graphite in front axle hubs, or drain hubs and replace with ordinary 90w.

 

My favorite time for using the radio is when it's raining heavily

 

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