the white whale!
the unicorn of CB repair!
That girl on TV who wants to talk to you late at night!
LOL
This is really the most elusive subject when it comes to CB repair.
The tune!
pick up any SAMS manual and it lays bare the whole process.
Well, aside from all the nuance involved.
And that's where the rubber meets the road my friends.
the nuance.
It reminds me of a welder i worked with many years ago.
The shop was full of young 'badasses' when it came to metal fabrication, and one of the guys we looked up to got his dad hired on as a welder.
We had been regaled with many a story about where he got his skills and all the school dances he missed because of dad keeping him busy in the shop on school nights.
So naturally, when he came in, and struck an arc, we all grabbed our hoods and tried to catch a glimpse of what he was doing.
I happened to be one of those who caught him on a bad (hungover) day, and while we were watching, he lifted his hood and shouted aloud, "I ain't no school"
We got the hint and left him alone after that.
Point being that when it comes to the essence of the art, no one wants to teach you for free.
Sure, Van Gogh might teach you a brush stroke or two, but he's not going to show you how he mixes color!
This was not lost on me when i first got interested enough in this hobby to buy a set of tuning tools, and because of that once i felt i had learned what exactly was involved in an alignment, i made a thread on the old Copper forum spilling what i thought were the secrets.
As the years have passed, i went from laughing at my old thread to being somewhat embarrassed by it.
Like, i thought i knew how to play the solo to Stairway to Heaven, but now i can't stand to listen to the old tapes of me trying.
I will probably still feel that way about the way i do it now 10 years from now.
All that being said, i continue to search for the same thing that was asked in the first post in this thread. A video of someone showing 'how it's done'.
Why don't i just post a video of it myself?
Well, for the same reason i won't play in a Led Zeppelin cover band.
I'm afraid of all the critiques from the rest of the people trying to cop Jimmy P.
I think that if ham radios were as 'basic' as CB radios when youtube became a thing, we might have a master lesson available, but if such a thing exists, i haven't found it.
I do believe that i learned what i know from reputable sources, but it wasn't spoonfed, and i still find better ways of doing things every year.
Kopsicle gets the credit for teaching me my latest lesson about IF tuning.
That doesn't mean that he deserves to have his inbox flooded LOL.
IDK, after typing all this, maybe i will work up the bravery to show the world how i do things, but i can't say how well i'll handle the inevitable 'that ain't how we do it in Greesnsborough'! comments.
I certainly don't consider myself a teacher, but i guess i could be persuaded to lean back and let other students cheat off my test.
LC
