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Goldfinger has upgrades for the audio chain for the 6666, 955 and the like. Maybe check out his mod's for that chassis.

So did you ask Truckscbsales about it? I am guessing you bought everything there? I would have asked them. The worse they could do is look at you point and laugh and then tell you their bench fee. Never know they might have given you some tips or pointers???

I do not know anything about the 655 not heard one on air yet. That said the Stryker 955 has the best AM audio I have heard on a radio marketed to the CB world in the last 20 years maybe more. Being an AM only radio as in not having SSB I would imagine it's AM audio would be fantastic? Does it...

Is the 655 that different from the 955 on audio circuit design? Are you sure yours is not defective and that no golden screw drivers have been inside the radio? What mic are you using? Have you ruled out the mic?

Most CB radio's especialy modern ones you want a 4:1 ratio between the carrier and the swing so if you wanted to key 1 watt you would want it to swing to 4 watts. If you had a 4w carrier you would want it to swing to 16w under full modulation. The radio's carrier sets the carrier the amp...

So I am going to attach a PDF if you open it and scroll down to the bottom left graph you will see a representation of Power Out compared to Power Input. This is for the now legendary Toshiba 2SC2879. It is rated as a 100w device by Toshiba notice it makes that power at say 4.5 watts input per...

Well power mic's where invented for this very reason. Most of those early radio's shipped with 2.5 to 3 watts of power and 60% modulation. If no pot exists then it is time to substitute hard jelly bean parts. As old as that radio is I have to assume the caps could be as dry and your average...

Good! I hate to see people fall for marketing when their are plenty of really good alternatives! If the MaxMod's where not unknown maker, sold with insane markup and not marketed as the best thing since pre sliced bread and women in bikini's I would be ok with them. The white papers for all...

Kool! That was what I was trying to duplicate in middle school was the Kahn Research Laboratories Symmetra.....

Most echo boards have delay and reverb. You usually had to turn the echo on to get the delay function and reverb to work. The trick was to just barley turn the echo on and add in just enough delay and reverb to warm the voice but not enough that people could tell you had the effects working...

I am rather intoxicated so any typo's are to be expected! LOL

2SA1301, 1302, 1943 and the modern replacement TTA1943 the TTA1943 is by far the modern equal I think for applications most would consider a Palomar MaxMod oh and while I do not think the TIP36 is the equal of the MaxMod or the TTA1943 it is a very good part. I just think people should know...

It's not that the MAX Mod is snake oil. Putting a beefier regulator in is old school upgrade. The part that is kind of misleading is how it is marketed. Back int he 1990's It was 2SA1301,1302 and SA1943 I still have like 12 of the 1302's and 3 of the 1301's and I think I have a Max Mod or 2...

Notice these already needing to be sent out for repairs not very old and already letting the smoke out!

More the same old garbage. More power than they can reliably make and garbage mosfets! I kind of like my SSB radio's to actual be stable on SSB and not designed to let the smoke out as feature of the design! LOL

Oh and definitely you need to learn to use SSB. AM is fine for local rag chewing but for skip or DX'ing SSB is the only way to propagate! Even in the 1990's all the cool kids on CB had SSB and often FM rigs and we used them all the time to get away from the low hanging fruit and to maximize the...

P.S. If you can hear them they can often hear you!

In the 1990's I would have some long conversations at times. I once talked to a guy in the UK for about 15 minutes when I lived in Georgia! We talked about keeping fish. My mom was into it she had 4 or 5 huge fish tanks and had fresh water, salt water, aggressive, non-aggressive tanks. Talked...

Solar cycles and antenna system more than anything else. Only after the first two items are satisfied does power venture into it. I did the most skip talking in a mobile with a 102" whip and 100w of power. That is all I had but I had the desire to sit in my 4Runner to 6am talking on the radio...

It is funny how short lived the memory is of this site. I broke IRFZ24N a few years before any else let alone them being used by most companies. No I am not a genius well I am but not when it comes to electronics though! LOL Yeticom out of NZ had a model of radio that was like so limited I...