I finally opened the box containing my new 955. I've been sick for a week and just started feeling better today, so I drug it out.
First thing I did was to remove the bottom case and lifted up one side of the little resister to expand the radio. Should be easy to solder it back down if needed.
Turned the rig on and was greeted with some potent white noise. This thing has a noisy receive. I was expecting it, but not that much. You'll use the RF gain for sure. The adjacent channel rejection seems better than some reviews have mentioned. I found it to be acceptable. The noise blanker sucks. The ANL takes out more noise. The NB did a poor job on local correlated sources I have compared to my other CB's and exports.
It gets great AM, FM and SSB audio reports. The controls are easy to see and operate. PC programming is easy with no issues on Win 7. No, the cable won't work with the CRE 8900. Output power is as advertised. Stability on SSB seems great. I like the radio, but it's a noisy SOB on AM. It's even noisier than my 8900, and that's a noisy ass radio also.
The stock mic came out on top when compared to a 636 and RK 56.
I don't think it's worth the money myself. If you can pick up a used one at a fair price (<$200) it might be an okay purchase. I don't think I'd want to have this in a mobile environment. Noise galore.