Driving home for lunch today, I decided to flip over to 38 lsb. I ended making contact with a guy down in the Dominican Republic and I'm up in Maine. He said my Uniden Grant was sounding real good, with strong modulation. I was running barefoot through a Wilson 1K in the mobile with my variable power cranked down about 2/3 and mic gain about 1/4. I just got the radio back from a repair at DTB Radio. Pretty darn good for my first radio check.