I know how everyone on here and most other forums talk down on radioactive radios.. i was uninformed at one point before i found this good forum and bought one.. by the looks of the website i thought they would be a good place to buy a radio from.. this is before i found out the good places were sparkys and customcbradios but anyway.. i had already put the order in for this one. i ordered it with the superwhackpack phase II, super RX, and an amp on/off switch. it took 3 weeks to arrive, mike said he was extremely busy lol. he was quite a talker on the phone. now as far as the radio goes, i hooked it up in my silverado, power from the battery of course and hooked to my wilson 1000 magnetic mount on the roof. hooked my radioshack swr/power meter up to it and got the swr's down to 1.3 or lower on all channels. flipped it to the power side, radio did 25 watts dead key swinging to about 150-160 PEP. now for an audio test. i hooked up my road king 56 and put the mic gain at 2 oclock, since thats what mike said to set it at on the paper he sent with it. i tested it with my dads little uniden and it seemed to have good, loud audio and good clear recieve, now if i turned the mic gain above the 2 oclock position it would overdrive/overmodulate and not sound clear but as long as i kept it at 2 oclock or lower it was good. this is my experience with radioactive lol.. guess i got lucky lol