I have a extream 2018 mic the talkback don't turn all the way off when I turn the mic gain up it starts to feed back thru the speaker I use my road devil on it I can put the gain any where I want to put it oh it is on a grant xl thank you very much
I have both the 2018 and the Road Devil and several of my friends have both also. The 2018 when set properly blows away the Road Devils in clarity and audio volume. Also the D104M6BI gave my 2018 to my bro some while back. He'll use it on his Cobra 2000 sometimes but the audio sounds ugly at times because whoever he bought the radio from did the normal 'cut the audio wide open' mods. Now he knows better and uses a Astatic Road Devil which is hard to beat for amplified,clear audio quality.
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I don't talk much on my 959 that I use as a base station but I spray cleaned and lubed my RD's a year ago with Rat Shack cleaner and lube. I haven't had to clean them since. I tend to use my CRE8900 with a RD most of my time in my mobile. Just made a contact in my mobile with Wyoming on 38 LSB .I have both the 2018 and the Road Devil and several of my friends have both also. The 2018 when set properly blows away the Road Devils in clarity and audio volume. Also the D104M6B "mobile" has better clarity than the Road Devil but for my 959DX I am sticking with the Road Devil even though the switch needs cleaning every other day lol.
I cleaned my D104M6b the other day with a standard electronics cleaner and then took a chance on a spray lubricant "silicone" which seems to dry up with in a few seconds and it has worked very good so far. The D104M6B was scratchy right out of the box and got real bad fast. I will be doing this same procedure with the Road Devil soon. Since they are both Astatic mics I should get the same results hopefully!I don't talk much on my 959 that I use as a base station but I spray cleaned and lubed my RD's a year ago with Rat Shack cleaner and lube. I haven't had to clean them since. I tend to use my CRE8900 with a RD most of my time in my mobile. Just made a contact in my mobile with Wyoming on 38 LSB .
What are you using for cleaning your RD?
P.S. I'm getting a good signal on 28.465 USB. Real steady signal.
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