11 meter is very quiet?

[whiteastro]

I'm asking because I am curious if the human ear will hear the improvement, or the improvement would only be noticed on a mete.
You location is in mother natures tough spot and good luck fighting mother nature.

I understand what your saying about fighting mother nature, she is a tough one ! According to several radio people I know they say the schotkey mod makes a noticeable difference and others say it doesn't so I guess it boils down to who do you believe. I have to trust these nice hearing aids the VA gave me and I know I hate static or air noise while I travel long distance so I might try my extra DX 979 as a experiment. Then we have my McKinley which is nice for my little car but needs a professional alighment to make me happy. Nothing ventured nothing gained. And yes I know about Squelch an RF Gain controls.

 

[Recon]

I understand what your saying about fighting mother nature, she is a tough one ! According to several radio people I know they say the schotkey mod makes a noticeable difference and others say it doesn't so I guess it boils down to who do you believe. I have to trust these nice hearing aids the VA gave me and I know I hate static or air noise while I travel long distance so I might try my extra DX 979 as a experiment. Then we have my McKinley which is nice for my little car but needs a professional alighment to make me happy. Nothing ventured nothing gained. And yes I know about Squelch an RF Gain controls.

Before you invest in modifying your radios, do you have your hearing evaluated every year and have the hearing aids adjusted?

 

[Rwb]

Before you invest in modifying your radios, do you have your hearing evaluated every year and have the hearing aids adjusted?

good 1 recon

 

[whiteastro]

These are top notch hearing aids and I down loaded the app to my smart phone so I can adjust them with my smart phone by blue tooth I can hear the soles of my shoes touching the floor if I want. LOL

 

[Recon]

good 1 recon

good 1 recon

I'm not joking!

 

[Recon]

These are top notch hearing aids and I down loaded the app to my smart phone so I can adjust them with my smart phone by blue tooth I can hear the soles of my shoes touching the floor if I want. LOL

Have you considered installing an antenna tower and a beam antenna? A while back you posted several skip contacts you had with your current equipment and location. I'd say, don't fix what ain't broken. How about a decent amp with a pre-amp option?

 

[Crawdad]

The schotkey receive mod is suppose to improve the receive and quite the air noise somewhat. In this stinking valley I need all the help I can get. I have discovered a CB repairman about a 3 hour ride from me so I'm going to call and talk to him and tell him about my problem children and if he can take care of Them I just might load them up and take-em for a little ride. About the same distance as you are from me and maybe I wouldn't be a disgruntled DXer anymore. The guy is recommended by several radio forum guy's so I might throw him some trial bones. A couple road trips might be in order. I'm growing tired of dealing with CB problems and time to Clean House.

A DSP might help you more than the diodes.

 

[whiteastro]

The guy at the VA can't hear with my ears and has a problem listening to what I tell him but i guess that is pretty much human nature.

 

[whiteastro]

Have you considered installing an antenna tower and a beam antenna? A while back you posted several skip contacts you had with your current equipment and location. I'd say, don't fix what ain't broken. How about a decent amp with a pre-amp option?

In a couple years I'm going to be out of this place. I'm not investing in a tower and beam. That's more than a little mod.

 

[whiteastro]

A DSP might help you more than the diodes.

Enlighten me what is a DSP ?

 

[ForestRunner98]

Enlighten me what is a DSP ?

This little guy

 

[Crawdad]

Enlighten me what is a DSP ?

A Digital Signal Processor. Takes the audio from your receive and filters out some of the junk. Has helped me quite a bit on weak signal Rx. Especially SSB DX.
Check out West Mountain Radio's site. There's other brands out there also.

 

[Crawdad]

Or this little guy..........

 

[whiteastro]

Thanks it's always good to talk to experience and have more options to choose from.

 

[Crawdad]

It's just my opinion, which ain't worth much, but I believe in most CB radios the whole Schottky diode thing is smoke and mirrors.