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Vernonott
| | Posted on Monday, January 14, 2002 - 7:18 pm: | 
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I've always had my radios peaked out to the max that they would do on the meter.All of my local contacts have told me for years that I had the loudest, baddest radio in the county.Now I've learned that I have not had the sound I thought I had.Several weeks ago I was given a Cobra 142GTL and upon hooking it up I noticed that it was dead keying three watts and swinging to five.To myself I said what a sick radio,but decided to try it for one night through the driver to the Nitro.The first call out to a contact friend of fifteen years and he blurts out , what in the world are you talking on?I want it ,you sound great,you have never sounded so clean.Yes , you have always been nasty loud but nothing like this.The kicker is that my peaked out radios will drive the box to 1000 plus watts.The low power 142 will only push it to 450 watts.Live and learn,big watts doesn't mean you are sounding good out there in radio land. |
Tech181
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 1:00 am: |
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Vernonott,
Good point and I can back up your post. My SS3900 is set up to dead key 3 and swing 15 watts. I run it barefoot, as I do with all my radios.
My very first radio check brought rave reviews, and not just from one person either. Many people remarked as to how good the radio sounded. Some of them have been in the "biz" for decades.
3 swinging 15? Like Vern said, sounds weak by today's standards but there was not a single difference in the receiving station's S-Meter than my Galaxy 99 keying 8 swinging to almost 30.
What was noticed was LOUD and clear life like audio. That's what it's all about.
Steve
Tech181
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| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - 2:04 am: |
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You're right Vern.. If you think about it, you know you have to modulate the signal you create in order for it to be heard. Your radio only has the capibility of just so much modulation. The bigger the signal , the more power it takes to do the job. You can get most radios to put out far more power than they were designed to but you won't have the extra power to modulate it 100%. I learned this back in the days of tube radios when you could change the finals and tune them to very much higher levels than stock, but you lost over 50% of your modulation or sometimes more. So you're right on that one, sometimes less is better. |
Warlock
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2002 - 9:28 pm: |
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Check out some old Sears Roadtalkers. Some of the best sounding radios ever made in my opinion (with the stck mike). App. 4w peaking 8. |
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