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Here Is A General Lee That Could Been Worked On By RadioActive
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That bad boy was packed full of whack and the new "CB Tech" added some Phat to the Whack. Is that better? :blink:
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Recently, I got a radio (Galaxy/Pluto) from a local that was worked on by Snake coupla months ago. AM was loud and nasty; but Snake didn't do these mods. All he did was recap the radio. But the radio truly sucked on SSB (couldn't even understand him at all), so the owner asked me if I would go thru his radio and set it straight.
Of course, the AM Limiter had been removed, the coils were spread, and R241(?) was clipped. So I set these parts back right and aligned the radio. I suspected that SWP had done the work originally; some of the traces had literally been ripped off of the board in order to remove parts quickly. I took pictures of these and saved them. Owner wouldn't tell me who did the original work. Radio works perfect now and gets xlnt reports; everything works like it should.
Seems Snake took some criticisms we railed him for - constructively. Best thing that could happen for him and his customers. Snake has improved over the last year; I have been watching some of his videos. However, he did let this radio out of his shop in this shape. Blame SWP and the owner; not Snake. I do. However, I was not a little pi$$ed off that he soldered the bias board on, as the bias was set way, waaaaay off. Didn't appreciate him sealing the tuning cans with wax - either.
Same radio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KzpTXI2j-o
Of course, the AM Limiter had been removed, the coils were spread, and R241(?) was clipped. So I set these parts back right and aligned the radio. I suspected that SWP had done the work originally; some of the traces had literally been ripped off of the board in order to remove parts quickly. I took pictures of these and saved them. Owner wouldn't tell me who did the original work. Radio works perfect now and gets xlnt reports; everything works like it should.
Seems Snake took some criticisms we railed him for - constructively. Best thing that could happen for him and his customers. Snake has improved over the last year; I have been watching some of his videos. However, he did let this radio out of his shop in this shape. Blame SWP and the owner; not Snake. I do. However, I was not a little pi$$ed off that he soldered the bias board on, as the bias was set way, waaaaay off. Didn't appreciate him sealing the tuning cans with wax - either.
Same radio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KzpTXI2j-o
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The videos seem to be disabled by the owner. Is this the same snake that takes brand new radios and tells the customer that the radio is not up to par from the factory and spins the radio around in circles and slams it around a few times then replaces all the capacitors because the factory ones did not meet his specs? always says the radio is lame even though its brand new. if it is I watch his videos all the time for entertainment not educational purposes. dude is funny if nothing else. wish I could have seen the video from the original post. Seems to be blocked.
That's him. He's such a tender feller. He can't handle comments so he disables them. He doesn't want his DUMBASS customers to figure out he's nothing but a HACK, so he keeps everything locked down.
You can bet he's already laid eyes on this thread.
I know he's always emulated loosecannon, but always comes up short.
Poor tender feller.
You can bet he's already laid eyes on this thread.
I know he's always emulated loosecannon, but always comes up short.
Poor tender feller.
I watched one of his videos where he was resoldering transistors and tuning cans because they were crooked. He seems to be running at a higher rate of SPEED than your average Joe. Hopefully he keeps his random hand placement away from high voltage projects.
Well if he is reading this (probably as you said), I'd like to give him a tip - from one hack to another.
I strongly recommend that you get the Comtekk/SINAD program and use it to do receive alignments along with using the sig gen. It is surely one thing your alignment lacks. That one program will help you nail down receive alignments for you - cold. After I had to realign this radio you had worked on here, trust me when I say it can have been done better and it is within your reach using SINAD. It isn't expensive and the results are far better than just pumping in 1uV from your sig gen alone and then watching the S/RF meter rise. That method you now use does not take into account receive noise and distortion; the difference is like night and day when using SINAD meter. Especially if you are doing receive mods.
Here:
ComTekk SINAD - Distortion Analyzer
I strongly recommend that you get the Comtekk/SINAD program and use it to do receive alignments along with using the sig gen. It is surely one thing your alignment lacks. That one program will help you nail down receive alignments for you - cold. After I had to realign this radio you had worked on here, trust me when I say it can have been done better and it is within your reach using SINAD. It isn't expensive and the results are far better than just pumping in 1uV from your sig gen alone and then watching the S/RF meter rise. That method you now use does not take into account receive noise and distortion; the difference is like night and day when using SINAD meter. Especially if you are doing receive mods.
Here:
ComTekk SINAD - Distortion Analyzer
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