Recent content by Slowmover

Did a long T680 install thread addition last summer into fall (“t680” in title). Truckstop WILSON with FME connectors is an easy choice. Bypassing OEM coax reduces AM/FM performance, but GREATLY improves CB. — I use 7’ Skipshooters on aftermarket PRO COMM mounts that bolt OVER the original...

My Dodge CTD (build 08/2003) has gotten long-in-the-tooth, and the radio project for it is stalled till a completely new dual battery harness (huge size upgrade) is installed along with size-upgraded batteries & alternator. As one tech-savvy contributor on those forums notes, the CTD is using...

More truck driver The different tractor I’m in (newer posts above) has proven amenable to better noise abatement than the one where I started the thread (T680 vs 579). Have switched back and forth the past two weeks between the DX-959b and the DX-99v2. (Not a great difference in RX, but the...

Eleven-Meter ain’t always this quiet. What is an OPORD? — Without asking for an air check I’ve been told repeatedly (with this latest install) that my rig sounds crystal-clear. When it’s mattered: I’m not being asked to repeat THE DETAILS of relayed report. (With a dozen or even a hundred or...

Seems like these things go one of two ways: 1) Extra-nice in-cab componentry with only fair to genuinely bad antenna system; or, 2). Great antenna setup and a mediocre radio. — My take is experience with pilot cars. With that antenna a dual-final radio that’ll talk (Stryker) is the way to...

After 1,800-hrs of use stopped by Rays CB of West Memphis, AR for a go-over and repair of a bent panel shaft. Been able to run the DX-959b without Squelch engaged and kept RF Gain always maxed (outside of being parked close to external noise), now I can back off the WMR CLEARSPEECH DSP Speaker...

This isn’t directly to your question, but I’ve a half-dozen RM amps. All used in mobile. The 503HD is not one of them. But I’m posting about experience with the KL-203 (and 203P). I’ve bought them two (2) at a time for about $115/shipped. I don’t recall everything about your posts on...

Before having a mobile system which with which I could hear, and get heard the constancy of movement covered over the deficiency inherent. The idea that, “€#%£ happens” (fatalism). Call the flip side of the coin (distant early warning) whatever you like. Yesterday I was at the end of an...

To follow up my last post in this thread: the WMR CLRSPCH DSP Speaker is akin to using a thermal riflescope. The heat signature leaves NO DOUBT that game is present (“did I see something move?”) — The forest (hash) with trees and brush is still present, though reduced, but RX is now SHARPLY...

West Coast mirror arms on an FLD have bushing at the mount to cab needs to be jumped. (Where the, “run a ground to frame”, thing came from). If can access to interior portion of that mirror mount, then? Otherwise, from arm to cab body. 1” W woven braided strap (tinned copper, stainless...

A picture or three will help. What model truck? (I’ve had a difficult time after logging in, almost can’t post it’s impossibly slow, otherwise I’d have answered earlier. Seems I’m the only truck driver around . . not). 1). What height restrictions do you face? With a T680 + 53’ van I run...

Having swapped the transceiver-located P-E coax filter for the ICE 411cb BPF, the Galaxy Noise Filter has become effective while on SSB over what it was before. Clarifier is a single adjustment (rough versus rough + fine) so the GNF is quite handy for bringing in only the stronger signals...

“. . our world is free, heaven is open”. .

Christmas Eve on the road. Amateur Radio noise abatement applied to a big truck radio rig. Work all the device controls . . . and with a side mic, listen for the bare hiss of The Star rising above Bethlehem. (Jussi Bjoerling in the 1959 recording of, “O Helga Nacht”). .

Not a side mic. Some men’d call these sissified, but I say: get a pair , as: C-Cup Breast Awareness Month is just around the corner. .