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Uniden 980 and RM KL203

Rwb said:
View attachment 37276 View attachment 37277 View attachment 37278i dont mind trucking . Neighbor i work for owns 4 ,we got 2 red t600 kws so only showed the newest t 600.they got it for me but i drive all 4,nice well kept older trucks.but im home nitly too. We only haul what we grow.
But before i retired i owned a few trucks
Now im retired i truck about 15 days a month average.
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So, in your opinion, how does a brand-new driver get on with an outfit like you’ve described (if GGW wants that advice in a PM)?

GGW, were I in a rural area, that’s how I’d want to go; as RWB describes.

I’m used to it. Wouldn’t care to change. Being left alone (mostly) is incentive enough, IMO.

Lack of experience “can” be shortened by ones obvious character in a face-to-face.

The Man ain’t gonna just hand the keys to anyone.

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Slowmover said:
Oh, never mind. The optional West Mountain Radio ClearSpeech DSP speaker kicks it up a tad high. $300.
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You recommend this everywhere, so I just picked the handiest thread I could find.

Finally bit and it arrived yesterday. Big honking speaker. Need to figured out a mounting location...Which may be a challenge.

Will let you know how I like it.
 
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Yeah. And I won’t stop.

In a mobile it’s flat irreplaceable given CB/Export (my experience). I haven’t run Amateur (where DSP is built-in).

Everything one can do to improve a mobile installation is going to be worth the effort. Most stop short (is my impression).

Ones radio hears more than he believes it capable.

Therefore, consider it a test.

Better ears (revealed) brings up other
potential SYSTEM shortcomings.

More investigation (experimentation) is more quickly realized (compared to an ordinary, quality, external speaker).

When one has audible layers of conversations going RF Gain & Squelch take a breather. No longer Coarse, but Fine, as controls.

“Best” location will always be above and behind left ear. Therefore, in a pickup, consider a B-pillar mount. A bracket. Easily reached. (Adjustments aren’t often, but you’ll want to check).

I’ve attached bracket to speaker with rubber washers. Bracket hasn’t ever given me cause for worry. I usually ALSO Velcro the speaker in place (and maybe zip ties; as a big truck offers more possibilities).

I suppose the idea (OMG!) of a pair of slits in the headliner is anathema. But it’s how I’ll do it in my Dodge.

Audio cable length is one restriction with included components. I’ve used adapters with another length of shielded (best to buy a second and/or third from WMR; or altogether custom-length; Blue Jeans Cable, maybe).

It’s less fatiguing to listen to have it mounted thus. Detail is obvious. Adjustable.

I have ferrites on each end of both audio & power; several wraps.

Good to do same with microphone cord.

CAIG DEOXIT a required supply item.

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Slowmover said:
Yeah. And I won’t stop.

In a mobile it’s flat irreplaceable given CB/Export (my experience). I haven’t run Amateur (where DSP is built-in).

Everything one can do to improve a mobile installation is going to be worth the effort. Most stop short (is my impression).

Ones radio hears more than he believes it capable.

Therefore, consider it a test.

Better ears (revealed) brings up other
potential SYSTEM shortcomings.

More investigation (experimentation) is more quickly realized (compared to an ordinary, quality, external speaker).

When one has audible layers of conversations going RF Gain & Squelch take a breather. No longer Coarse, but Fine, as controls.

“Best” location will always be above and behind left ear. Therefore, in a pickup, consider a B-pillar mount. A bracket. Easily reached. (Adjustments aren’t often, but you’ll want to check).

I’ve attached bracket to speaker with rubber washers. Bracket hasn’t ever given me cause for worry. I usually ALSO Velcro the speaker in place (and maybe zip ties; as a big truck offers more possibilities).

I suppose the idea (OMG!) of a pair of slits in the headliner is anathema. But it’s how I’ll do it in my Dodge.

Audio cable length is one restriction with included components. I’ve used adapters with another length of shielded (best to buy a second and/or third from WMR; or altogether custom-length; Blue Jeans Cable, maybe).

It’s less fatiguing to listen to have it mounted thus. Detail is obvious. Adjustable.

I have ferrites on each end of both audio & power; several wraps.

Good to do same with microphone cord.

CAIG DEOXIT a required supply item.

.
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Just fired it up and playing around...so far so good.

First, I LOVE the volume. Not unusual to have my Lincoln IIs volume maxed when pulling out a weak signal and still straining my ears. That problem is now gone.

Second, it seems too much processing will easily ruin a weak signal. That’s ok...because I have options now. The DSP seems to switch on hard at about 8 o’clock on the dial, and by 9 o’clock it seems the bulk of the noxious noise is gone and the weak signals remain unaffected. On AM it seemed more processing worked fine...but my days are mostly spent listening for faint SSB. After a few hours of listening; fatiguing to say the least. The real test will be how it works on some weak signals from Europe/Pacific. Maybe today, if not then soon enough.

Third, I saw lots of comments on the bracket. Thought it would be fine but it’s cheaper than I thought. I am mounted vertically at the moment, and I’m pretty sure it will break. Horizontal I think it would most likely be fine. We’ll see, but I’ll probably end up just fabbing a new one (hopefully before this one bites the dust).

I did add ferrite. This thing is pretty good at sucking up noise. I don’t know if it even matters, but it won’t hurt.

Lots of wire loom to install, and then I’ll be done with my pickup.
 
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I, too, thought included bracket cheap. 250k miles later it should have broken. Nope

That said, it’s not ever been mounted other than horizontally.

Remember that I was crawling oilfield lease roads out to active drilling sites. Some of those such that 12-15/miles would take over an hour. In a tractor spec’d for HD off-road. (Three hours same distance in most road tractors).

You were military, for others, it can be impossible to keep from hitting the roof on some roads. Everything comes flying out of where it’s stored.

If the bracket really was cheap plastic, it wouldn’t have held up. It’s flexibility is an asset.

I assume that for my CTD I’ll need a metal bracket. I may make it three-point.

For GP: leaving control at about 10:00 does most of the work. (Only on SSB with 203p pre-amp on does moving to 14:00 help).

Volume is the change between radios; moving vs stationary, AM vs SSB, etc.

Get a radio with talkback for a test. Use it to see how far ferrites clean up a mic cord (Mic Gain & Radio volume low; from far). It’s not that you can use talkback, it’s the nature of the change in sound.

Compare that to a nice common external speaker.

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Volume is the change between radios; moving vs stationary, AM vs SSB, etc.
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Yeah, but truck parked, not running, no ambient noise...I should be able to hear.

Problem: too many years spent sleeping on top of diesel gensets and being sloppy on the ranges. Failed to learn a vital thing from my ancestors who suffered the same problem.

Anyway, video coming in the other thread...re: my pickup.

Speaker working great. Many thanks for the recommendation!
 
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Yeah, but truck parked, not running, no ambient noise...I should be able to hear.

Problem: too many years spent sleeping on top of diesel gensets and being sloppy on the ranges. Failed to learn a vital thing from my ancestors who suffered the same problem.

Anyway, video coming in the other thread...re: my pickup.

Speaker working great. Many thanks for the recommendation!
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Pleased to hear it.

I knew I was taking an expensive gamble. Maybe Jay in the Mojave had posted by then. Maybe I found that. Maybe not. It was reassuring that the basic speaker was of higher quality, but . . . .

On the subject of hearing loss, I can’t imagine you’d have to invent the wheel to modify frequency response in audio. Somebody, somewhere.

For anyone:

As to radio volume: on the Galaxy’s I normally use, if Off is 0700, I might get it opened to 0900.

On the speaker I go straight to 1200 and adjust radio from there. (Speaker first).
 
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2NC995 said:
Just fired it up and playing around...so far so good.

First, I LOVE the volume. Not unusual to have my Lincoln IIs volume maxed when pulling out a weak signal and still straining my ears. That problem is now gone.

Second, it seems too much processing will easily ruin a weak signal. That’s ok...because I have options now. The DSP seems to switch on hard at about 8 o’clock on the dial, and by 9 o’clock it seems the bulk of the noxious noise is gone and the weak signals remain unaffected. On AM it seemed more processing worked fine...but my days are mostly spent listening for faint SSB. After a few hours of listening; fatiguing to say the least. The real test will be how it works on some weak signals from Europe/Pacific. Maybe today, if not then soon enough.

Third, I saw lots of comments on the bracket. Thought it would be fine but it’s cheaper than I thought. I am mounted vertically at the moment, and I’m pretty sure it will break. Horizontal I think it would most likely be fine. We’ll see, but I’ll probably end up just fabbing a new one (hopefully before this one bites the dust).

I did add ferrite. This thing is pretty good at sucking up noise. I don’t know if it even matters, but it won’t hurt.

Lots of wire loom to install, and then I’ll be done with my pickup.
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I run a ClearSpeech Base DSP on every radio in my shack & I run a ClearSpeech DSP Speaker in my mobile.In my shack I even run one with my ICOM 7600 which has a great DSP system but the ClearSpeech make it even better.

SIX-SHOOTER
 
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I guess we need to start a club. A restricted subforum, hmmm . . .

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I just saw one of the speakers with the box on QTH.com for just $110 shipped & if I needed another one I'd buy it in a Heartbeat.Everyone I have ever let listen to the difference in my mobile or my shack has become & believer & a user because they really do work unlike anything I have ever heard.

SIX-SHOOTER
 
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G GOLLY WAlly said:
And it don't fit in the Nissan, not how I want it to anyway. Just gonna put it in my F250 and call it good. Just gonna keep my dinky Uniden pro in the Nissan, all I need it for is traffic updates while traveling anyway.
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where there is a will there is a way to mount it
 
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