Uniden Grant LT question.

[King Mudduck]

Does any one else have or have ever had one of these. I have one that is is Philippine built and the receive absolutely sucks! It has been tuned using an oscilloscope and it still sucks. I have tried different coax and antennas with no change and its still very poor using my Imax 2000. It's like say a Galaxy export radio that has the RF gain turned back 3/4's of the way. It's even hard to hear the boys on the bowl! The side band receive is fine but the AM is very poor.

Is this a problem these radios have or could it be something else. My tech had for a week and could find nothing wrong with it and he had no clue as to why the receive is so poor. Help!

 

[sonoma]

find another tech, that radio has one of the best and cleanest receives if done right

 

[King Mudduck]

You all may know this but it does have that Dynamic Squelch Control as well, don't know if that makes a difference or not. But i know that of the few Cobras i have had with this feature ( called a sound tracker ) none of them had a very strong receive compared to a standard Cobra 29 classic either.

 

[Switch Kit]

the radios with sound trackers in them got bad names because of the sound trackers , if you didn't use them , there was and should not have been any problems with the radios there after and they would TX and RX with the best of them , you just didn't use the ST feature. Your Grant XL and LT are basically the same radio . The LTs have the nice back lite knobs and what not , the last SSB cb radio Uniden put out . They are both known for there better then average receive sections in them. Yours is obviously having a AM receive problem and it shouldn't , especially on that radio. Unfortunately , not very many tech's have been posting up around here of late , yeah sure , it's easy for somebody to tell you to send it to DTB and whomever , but your own tech couldn't figure it out ? They are damned good radios , and with some patience you might get the answer your looking for . I wouldn't mind hearing whats wrong with this one myself ? I've never really heard of this kind of problem before on these radios.

 

[King Mudduck]

It's a great radio other than the receive problem and every one says that it sounds great on am and ssb. I did a little test today and learned that i really only have a range of a bout 5 miles or so. Anything further out then that unless they are using power and i don't hear them at all! I don't even hear any skip no matter how strong it is, no static nothing. Now if i turn the volume all the way up i can hear some faint stations but not that well so i don't know. Its almost like i have the squelch turned up to high but i checked it and i don't.

 

[King Mudduck]

I found another one today for $50.00. It has the same receive problem as the other Grant.

 

[KI6NDA]

Not sure this will help much, but here is a thread from another forum where the exact fix wasn't named but some ideas where kicked around. Then a shop fixed it up for him. The main "helper" poster made it sound like it's a common problem.

http://www.radiomods.co.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1356