I find receive sections in radios very interesting , though they say the Grant XL had one of the best , I wasn't personally impressed with it in my vehical , base station use was a different story. (I thought it was better put there) Now keeping in mind IM talking about my vehical here , usually a much different situation then a base station set up were power source is different along with antenna use. I personally did not like the NB/ANL on the Grant XL concerning my car ,(very close to the 29s/76s/78s/148s ect.) the same went with the Cobra 29 and the Uniden 76 XL , YES ! They all worked to a degree , but how they worked was a total turn off to my ear hole. I found them all to act like Rf -Gains while they were blanking out any noise I didn't need in my car along with making folks sound farther away and or slightly distorted at the same time. I've always found that most nb/anl's to always take a truer sound away from the way that others sound like, unfortunately , that is the trade off with many a cb radio. In my case ,I've found that most AM/SSB radios made for better base stations then they did motor car use,or I have found that some radios were better SSB radios then they were there AM counter parts. I've been through a lot of radios in my time and what is better then others is in the ears and eye's of the beholders , weather or not a tech seems to think otherwise. For anyone that is a AM only user in there vehicals and tend to have noise problems usually coming via the antenna's ? I would highly recommend a older/newer Cobra 25 LTD ,over the years I have found them to have the best of noise blankers in them without taking anything away from the receive that I personally can notice by ear or sight. When noise is a issue , I can still say that the Grant XL's on SSB are more then likely the BEST I ever used over the years !! but were AM and my car is concerned , I will pass along with the others I had mentioned.
