Copy on the cheap Justin !!! ....not to say the newer radios can't be modded to work well ,IM just a old cb'er from way back ...I love the the first run 40 channel radios !! You would think with all this newer technology that these newer cb radios would be better but it seems like the opposite in many ways , I still can't believe that Uniden gave up on the Grant run ? Well ...I can go back to the early 90's when I worked part-time for Joe at J&S CB Radios in San Gabriel Ca. ...even then he had said that if FCC had there way that the newer run radios wouldn't come close to the older models ? well so far I see what he was talking about back then (even though I hear and have read the stories about Cobra deciding to go a cheaper route in the manufacturing of there radios were Uniden didn't) ...Cheap as you put it ! but I also see were tech's can sometimes get around the "cheap" and still make a radio perform well ...again I say ,IM just a cb'er from way back ,I'd still take an old Grant or 148GTL over a 949/959 any day of the week .This is what helps me understand why the Galaxy 33s on up (10 meter) converts and many of the other 10 meter radios seem to make for better cb radio operations .,even though the few I've had over the years have always seemed to be better sideband radios then there AM counter part.