Recent content by Onelasttime

I absolutely love CB. It took decades of having to put up trashy idiots with more money than brains to make me bitter about the hobby. I have zero patients for what I would call white trash abusing dirty radios and amplifiers. If you are not talking to another humanbeing or at least attempting...

As long as you understand it is a clipping and compressing the audio all is good. As long as you are ok with that they kick butt! So opposite of eSSB or Aysmetric Modulation at 300%. Less Comm has down some crazy buildings using a CP1 to Drive the SP1-A or maybe the other way around. I like...

Well if you are made out of money you could put MRF454 real ones not fake ones in. Your looking at $200 for a MP though. If you really have money to burn you can still get real Toshiba's but last I checked NOS is like $200 each. I would run it as is and just do not do anything stupid like...

I always wanted one. I got one and quickly realized I did not want to afford the electrical requirments to feed it properly. Luckily I got offered more than I paid for it almost as soon as I got it. Like everything from Texas Star they need a little bit of work out of the box to be durable and...

Way cleaner than anything Ranger/RCI/Galaxy has ever put on the market! Wow! As much as I love the RCI 2950 that AT-6666 was doing a great job!

Wow so 18 pages defeats you? I can see that if you did not know what it is. NPC stands for negative peak compression and the RC stands for reduced carrier. Quick and dirty it is designed to let you get your peak modulation above 100% with out the negative portion pinching. So 120%, 150%, 200%...

I like being able to read peak accurately on my Telewave 44 and being able to read from 5 to 500 with no need for slugs.

I currently own a Daiwa Cross Needle, Micronta from 1980's that has the 3 meters and remote mount and a Telewave 44. The Mircronta is for base use and mostly because it has remote monting and modulation reading. The Diawa is used mostly when I set up a mobile because it is compact but still easy...

People like to poop on the QT40 but for like $149 they are diamonds in the rough! Perfect? Nope! Darn good though. If the people in the know actualy applied themselves to this radio it could be great but their is no money in it for them so no attention. Probably good that they do not or it...

Normaly it is slowly over time even when driven hard but not abused it is slow. The other way is something else besides the tube lets go inside and you get massive arcing and not only is the tube gone and your underware but a lot of other parts are gone as well. This is rather rare though. I...

I do not think you need to have a college degree to be a good technician. Some of the best I have known did not finish college because of that pesky thing called Vietnam. College is not worth the price of admission today is depends. I do not care if someone has a degree or not everyone in my...

I paid over $400 from HRO in 1991 for my RCI2950 I remeber that by 1993 once non-Ham radio outlets started to carry them and I do not mean the refurbished units either price dropped down to $249. That was the direction the industry should have followed. The owners of Galaxya nd Ranger should...

What the heck does this even mean "robotic pumpy ringadingzing newer dsp hf radios sound"? I am guessing from context this is a bad thing but not sure. LOL

I do not think of a watt meter as an absolute or precision tool it is about trending data and close enough at best. We have far more accurate tools than "the watt meter"!

Why would anyone not talking on the air purposfuly interfer? To bad Uncle Sam never updated you on the solution? If it was a plasma TV or Solar Power Inverter etc????