On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:01:29 -0600, "Chad Wahls"
wrote:


I have read the about the amazement of acceptance while including adjustable
power. Dunno, it is bone stock 4/12 watts. I have heard form others that it
is a BEAR to get more channels out of, etc.

It IS a good CB RADIO though. I think it sounds great, really natural and
has excellent receive. Sideband performance is suprising for a Galaxy
although it did need a frequency allignment from the get-go and am
modulation was low (limiter slammed with a tone and only doing about 80%)

That's typical of most out of the box CB radios. The limiters are
usually set conservatively at 85% max.

Microphone preamp is very sensitive, no NEED for a power mic but a better
sounding dynamic is in order to get the best fidelity. With the stock mic I
keep the mic gain at about 1 o'clock to keep the limiter from pumping.

They are not cheap but it has been a good, robust radio thus far.

For the record I would trade my roger beep for an unlocked clarifier in the
law books, anyday, hands down

I'm with you on that one. Until they can find a way to phase lock
everybody's transmit frequency to an exact standard, there will always
be a slight variation in frequency, which you will have to adjust to
every time a different station transmits, if everyone has a "locked"
on transmit receive-only clarifier. When running a roundtable on SSB,
it becomes very annoying in short order.

Dave
"Sandbagger"
http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj