We've heard these claims before...
The rest is IMO---
Lou did a good job in showing us how to use Xtal's in IF-Strips to filter down and retrieve the signals you want to hear, but they too, have shown their limits in ability to pull stations in and out of the noise and bandwidth of other stations on adjacent channels.
Wide bandwidths and widely swinging Envelope to Carrier signals have pretty much knocked down any true effort of noise reduction just short of having to move towards the station you want to hear, or turn the power off and wait for anther day with better conditions.
This doesn't seem so novel? Because...
Many units were just "audio filtering" and "Audio processing" circuits.
Which nowadays, is pretty much the staple of any good performance radio platform.
The sad part is that the CB Band is so congested with noise from it's own users, that much of this claim being made has been said before. Cobra had ST, Uniden DSC, Midland ESP - Even Lous' own IF fixes, each one of them was a method of audio processing and Performance Manipulation (AGC or Gain factors - including the use of Schottky diodes, Crystal lattice filtering and various Low-noise RF amp designs)
All have their merits.
But one thing stands out on all of them COMBINED... they cannot remove the noise and bandwidth products the other operators on the other channels impose on the signal you're trying to hear - it's a mixing and overlay event - the signal you're trying to hear is lost, buried in there, somewhere - you have to go find it.
It is hard to quantify such a claim - can it truly "capture" the signal you want to hear versus the noise and audio embedded in with other audio from operators that simply cannot keep their modulation, nor power - to the channel they are on, and not from spilling into and on the one you're listening to?
Due to the sheer nature of AM and he bandwidth necessary to use, let alone those that have converted to Hi-Fi - using even more bandwidth - I would be hard pressed to think this circuit can discern the differences between what is there being used by a carrier and a careful if not considerate operator, and what is not there but as noise as the overlay of another channels own noise being placed upon it? The Spread of audio bandwidth and distortion products from over performing amps and Hi-Fi equipment - you can't be serious about that claim?
Without some form of audio processing; digital or analog, compression or expansion or even simple filtration - there are very few methods available to the CB'er to use.
I'd like to welcome it, but I've been let down before - so the truth lies in the proof. I would not like to see it be a mis-representation or another poor gimmick designed to take advantage of users and kits that eventually may damage their radios from their effort of trying to install it.
When you go into WWDX's site to search; it's has the archives of RX performance, I would not be surprised to know if much of this claim is a modified design that precipitates out of this Sites own repository of ideas, concepts, discussions and modifications - done to the radios of various types for improvements.
This claim may be the collimation of all those others before this - that effort to make things better - I hope the Admins are listening and reading this..
I'm not saying it's impossible, but it may be nigh-improbable that you can retrieve the signals lost in the noise completely clean. However, if it can make even the slightest differences in enjoying a hobby or dealing with another round of burdensome noise levels you have to fight thru to attain and sustain the contact - hopefully it will be at a reasonable cost the market will bear.
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