hey hammer i never use atu's i always cut for electrical halfwaves and tune the antenna as best i can,
why do you assume im a HAM? is it not possible that a cber can have half an idea,
im a cber dude through and through had my ticket since 96/97 and only use 2mtrs/70cms to talk to my old cb buddies that went ham, its a freakin tellephone to me nowadays,
not only am i a real cber i have 15kc filters in my cb i have 7.5kc audio like godzilla down to 50hz at least directly driving the modulator with offboard processing and disabled rx agc for dynamic range and taking rx audio straight from the detector buffer
NOW find me a ham on here that does that or thinks thats acceptable even for a cber, then find somebody on here that says it cant be done and i will take great pleasure in making them look like a dick,
listen up on the bowl bro when i got conditions you will realise i aint no ham at heart 
maybe if you can be arsed to get a decent wideband rx you will want to join the wideass crew on 025, if not then ya will hear me muffled as hell on your stock cb receiver on ch5 ch 6 and ch7 all at once,
ps you still have not explained how you gain better performance?
