So would that mean hi as in hello? Or.... hi powah!
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Real CB Radios are side mic
- Thread starter Slowmover
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(Beautiful! Thx, SS!)
Went thru lease company shop today. This t680 is “a good driver”, but suffered thru a few bad drivers prior to me.
New clutch and eight (8) new shocks come in next week. A couple of suspension bushings. Ride height will get attended.
Four (4) bootiful forward drive axle tires (first retread) being installed now.
This is not a business where they want to spend money on the prime mover. But more is getting done on the truck than I’d hoped for.
So, get that SIDE MIC GALAXY installation done and the shop manager will decide, why, you’re an old friend of his come to call. “Hey, what can we do for you!”.
Ride quality matters — the above is part of this — but ease in controlling the rig is what’s gettin’ done.
There may not be a new truck on my horizon. But it won’t matter much if this one is made GTG.
SIDE MIC: Viagra for big trucks.
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Went thru lease company shop today. This t680 is “a good driver”, but suffered thru a few bad drivers prior to me.
New clutch and eight (8) new shocks come in next week. A couple of suspension bushings. Ride height will get attended.
Four (4) bootiful forward drive axle tires (first retread) being installed now.
This is not a business where they want to spend money on the prime mover. But more is getting done on the truck than I’d hoped for.
So, get that SIDE MIC GALAXY installation done and the shop manager will decide, why, you’re an old friend of his come to call. “Hey, what can we do for you!”.
Ride quality matters — the above is part of this — but ease in controlling the rig is what’s gettin’ done.
There may not be a new truck on my horizon. But it won’t matter much if this one is made GTG.
SIDE MIC: Viagra for big trucks.
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Well Slowmover, I've joined the side mic club. The 959 arrived today, so later this evening it'll come out of the box for function checks. I've had one before but still like a kid at Christmas.
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Yeah, this whole thread has been THE JOKE IS ON ME as I bought what was available in single-final Galaxy SSB more than anything else.
Seventeen days ago, Larrys CB didn’t have a 949 or 979 — which would fit the Kenworth slide tray — so I had to go large case. As a friend had a legendary 959 I was proud to get one.
Did not expect it to be this good. (An old truck driver, not an old hand at Radio).
Calling that goodness Side Mic! has been a load of fun with which to start this thread and I’m pleased others have joined in the fun.
I’ve noted elsewhere that the cophase 7’ Skipshooter pair tuned to pretty much 1.4:1 across all 40 as of this morning with the KL-7405 in line, and that the WEST MOUNTAIN RADIO DSP Speaker + PALOMAR ENGINEER Coax Filters (and now, power straight to the battery bank) are going to make most any radio look good.
Quietest big truck radio rig I’ve ever had.
So, Christmas it is . . .
. . as the 959 lets the rest of the radio rig do its job while trying to stay out of the way (audio tone controls & filters). It’s not doing something — or failing to do something — which detracts from the pleasure of operating it. Which I can’t always say about other radios from my experience.
And I figured out when the Galaxy Noise Filter (GNF) setting WORKS on AM. Which at first use seemed to be a poor addition.
Haven’t given it much use on SSB as that’s a stationary mode for me (and Skip has been minimal). What I’ve listened to has been satisfactory, thus far.
The DX-959 has the useful BIG Galaxy meter, has controls I can operate by touch (got that down now in the past 6k miles), and isn’t bedeviled by digital radio extra-sibilance, so all its’ features are all to the good.
As I’d expected I can “tell” who’s far away and who isn’t in parsing RX via audio + meter in on-road use so it hits all the marks for why I want a Galaxy. Earned reputation. A real friend to a truck driver making important decisions many times daily.
The DX-959b has roots as a classically GREAT citizen band radio.
The Big Dogs all run a Side Mic.
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Pulled over for the night near the shore of Lake Michigan and noticed a DX-959b feature I’d missed before (Operator Guide stays unpacked from carton for safekeeping); and that is that it can be rigged for night-running.
Turn display on/off by pressing Dimmer control. TX lamp stays lit either blue/red (confirms key-click comms), all else goes dark.
So, what with mil-type features — GNF & DARK OPS capability —
Moonshine runs are made ONLY with a Galaxy Side Mic.
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Turn display on/off by pressing Dimmer control. TX lamp stays lit either blue/red (confirms key-click comms), all else goes dark.
So, what with mil-type features — GNF & DARK OPS capability —
Moonshine runs are made ONLY with a Galaxy Side Mic.
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So would the 29 side mic make the tryouts or.... Does it have to be the big body...
Has it got the BIG meter?
This whole thing is to rib 148 & Grant owners.
You decide.
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That said, I believe Mr 29 side mic walks away dragging his bottom lip. Unqualified like a swift driver backing into a truck stop slot from the blind side!
No SSB (hardest hit)
No meter (worthy of the name)
Etc
When the little switch engines have done their jobs . . .
. . it’ll be the The Big Iron ventures out into the night.
(Learned that son got his type rating today for the 747-400. The Dash 8 freighter version he’ll be flying can get airborne at one-million pounds. Gonna have to send him a side mic adapter).
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I had a cb and it was a front mic. I talked all over the place with it. It was solid material, too. Good hefty weight. And it had a front mic. ...then I woke up and I didn't even have a cb. I was CQing my alarm clock.
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