JUST to describe the weird space I am in!!!! I went to DeVry - Dallas in 1975 in the Degree program. Right after I got my ASEET I was hired on at the NASA JSC to work in the Shuttle Mission Simulator facility where the crews trained.
I took off on a path at work that led me to move into their operating systems group about 9 years after I joined. So NOW I was in software! Later hired on with a Real Time Computer company and served as an Operating Systems Internals Analyst for 18 years. Then 15 more years as a Java programmer. Now.... finally retired!
In retirement I am aiming to "get back to my electronics. I always loved it. I chose to set up a fairly well appointed bench and collect CB radio hulks to align/repair as needed JUST as a HOBBY. But I wanted to do it right (IMHO) by studying deep and actually learning how the circuits actually worked. I have become what I consider a "clean spectrum freak" and I DO have a spectrum analyzer (2 actually!) and LEARNED that "maxing the power meter needle" is not anywhere CLOSE to being the best a radio can do! I know that "splatter boxes" LOOK like they have more power....but it is ALL OFF FREQUENCY.
So why am I commenting here?
I actually think it would be nice to just be an employee in somebody's shop and repair these things to the best of my ability. But I have a problem.....
KNOWING that "peak and tune" thinking in the repair business creates "splatter boxes" I would probably be the one who would NOT do mods on radios. Rather... I would align them properly to be on frequency and clean. The bad thing about that is that my mind tells me that I would NOT be very popular. That I would PROBABLY be "run out of town" because I objected to doing what I consider to be "boogering up" radios.... or... butchering them.
So... I have just been one of those that amuses myself at home and dreams of "what might have been"!!!! 
So.... here I am..... an OLD GOAT.... who prefers doing it the right way.
Now..... what I need to do is.... remember why it was I posted this!!!!!!!
