Y’all got me worried so I opened and installed the $99 980 in the Peterbilt 579 factory location. Only difference is in the coax run thru the cab.
I can’t tell any difference on the screen brightness from the 880 and the 885. As it’s overhead, thus shaded, it’s ideal.
Have the SE GoldenRod 45 up, and the ANL seems to cut the worst noise so that Squelch can be backed out with Gain maxed.
Have to make a new power line (from a pair of binding posts out) to include the DSP Speaker and RM amp.
Only detectable noise is thru coax (expected). Grateful nothing seems to be coming thru the factory power.
Going to run ABQ to AMA pretty soon. Usually not much traffic on 19 until I hit the farming areas in the Texas Panhandle 220-miles ahead on IH40.
Will stop 560-miles ahead in OKC. Always a good crowd there. If I get amp & spkr working, I can try antenna/mike swaps/gain, etc, with them.
Tomorrow I’ll be down to the rural part of SE OK I’ve mentioned is awesome after dark. But I’ll be there too early for that.
Instead I’ll place & remove ferrites/filter in coax to see if any improvement for this setup. Daytime, then again at night.
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