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Old or new? If it's old - like you I have not seen any. New President? Lincoln II is a Qixiang radio. McKinley is a Uniden radio.

I could not resist.....

A lot of people are better off taking it out of the box and using it as-is. Let's be realistic about one thing... A radio out of the box is not going to be as good as a radio realigned by someone competent. This is the one small fact in the larger lie that is overused. In manufacturing time is...

That may be a good story. I know nothing about who taught him or what he was taught. I see nothing out of him that was not done 20+ years ago. The same thing, rinse and repeat. That's why I call these guys "assemblers" - because it's the same thing over and over. New cabinet, some paint...

I saw a few comments vanish. They were there and when I refreshed later they were gone. I was watching to see if he removed them since some were not bad comments but they were not praise either. If he was honest he would take the good with the bad. Has to maintain that safe space, I guess.

From what I have been able to find out new President is not directly connected to Uniden. They use two ODMs - Uniden and Qixiang. The only ties that I see are that they used Uniden as the ODM for some radios. If they are made in Vietnam, Unident is the ODM. China, Qixiang is the ODM...

I see that as inherently dangerous for the hobby. That may not be an endorsement, but it's certainly being used and interpreted that way already. Comments are amazingly enabled on that video (I wonder why) and he is heavily moderating them to remove anything that is not an epeen stroking.

Let's be fair about this, too. It's a CB radio. a few Hz drift isn't going to make or break it. We are not trying to lock a signal that's out past Jupiter. Within a few Hz? Mission accomplished.

I know a lot of people out there are quite happy to give Snake a lashing for his snake oil mods but some of these "flamethrower" mods are even worse BS than his are. I didn't bother to read all of it but holy smokes now that I have..... "Upgraded audio amp for 100% modulation with stock mic"...

4Hz is going to be hard to hear. 40 you will probably hear if it changed while you were talking to the person while it changed. But if it's adjusted and drifts 1Hz a week that's quite poor for a TCXO.

What is this? From one of his videos: I went to find this "flamethrower" guy and its a radio sold on ebay. The FULL text is hilarious, not the choice snipping Snake threw on YouTube. This Flamethrower writes this dissertation on CB techs, tells you what to avoid but describes the exact same...

The coffin mics being turned into studio mics is impressive! Who could have known that removing the pop filter would make them studio mics! Quick! let's buy a huge lot of coffin mics on Aliexpress and remove the pop filters and QUADRUPLE the price! Then we have the occasional upset customer...

Fair question, and ironically my territory :) That would be a really interesting leak. Schematics I grabbed show it uses an old 4 bit Hitachi CPU that maxed out at 4Mhz and they were using a 4Mhz crystal or resonator to generate the CPU clock. I highly doubt it's anything with the CPU. Would be...

I have not watched the video. Only seen the image. I did not feel the need to suffer thru another one after I lost 6 or 8 minutes of my life after his antenna video. As I recall the 2950/70 etc radios all had compensation (varactors) in the bandpass filters. I would think that's enough to swing...

He is probably referring my my comment where I doubt he cares. Based on the videos I have seen he does not. There is more than one video where he makes reference to an old and respected equipment manufacturer needing to copy his designs - a very unlikely scenario based on what I saw of his...

True. MY first thought is that those other signals would not make much difference but now that I realize those are attenuated at the instrument by 30dB plus whatever external attenuation he has.. those signals could be several watts. They are only -20dBm below the 27.5Mhz signal. That's really...

I have one of these. If you even come close to overload the thing screeches and puts it up on the display. He has something like -25dBm somewhere around 27.5Mhz plus 30dB of internal attenuation so it should be getting +5dBm. It can do +30dBm but it will start screaming around 20 or so. I...

Your are starting to sound like a certain someone that I was on Discord with last night. The one that people think I am but we laugh at for being clueless :) He was telling me just like you to go ahead and have all these amp assemblers taking little pieces out of me. I think that between him...

That guy is a hoot sometimes. The Streisand effect is real.

Emphasis mine. Do you think they are clever enough to even try this? That said, these amplifiers have the most RIDICULOUS construction methods I have ever seen. I am surprised they don't self-oscillate and explode. Why in gods name would you work with RF and feel the need to create your own...