Toll_Free
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If your technician has fucked the AGC in your radio up that bad, I'd find another one.
--Toll_Free
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TNT 350 vs.Texas Star 350hdv?
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If your technician has fucked the AGC in your radio up that bad, I'd find another one.
--Toll_Free
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BOOTY MONSTER
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That's way too much drive for any Texas Star amp smaller than a Sweet Sixteen.
For a 350 that's instant cab filled with 10 ohm smoke.
Don't even try it.
73
Jeff
For a 350 that's instant cab filled with 10 ohm smoke.
Don't even try it.
73
Jeff
So what could I connect inside of a semi to work with a general 40 HP ? Even if i turn it down , what could you recommend?
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Unless you can supply the DC power to run a 80-Amp or more amplifier, that radio's too big for small linears.
I would not use one smaller than 8 transistors with that radio. A rough rule of 10 or 12 Amps per transistor is a starting point with most amplifiers using 12-Volt transistors.
And if you had a radio that was one-fourth that wattage, a linear one-fourth as big would make sense.
The "turn it down" method almost never works for very long. Sooner or later a knob gets bumped, the mike gets keyed and the amplifier gets poofed.
73
I would not use one smaller than 8 transistors with that radio. A rough rule of 10 or 12 Amps per transistor is a starting point with most amplifiers using 12-Volt transistors.
And if you had a radio that was one-fourth that wattage, a linear one-fourth as big would make sense.
The "turn it down" method almost never works for very long. Sooner or later a knob gets bumped, the mike gets keyed and the amplifier gets poofed.
73
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
Here is an article that explains the distance limits of adding power. With the biggest gain being your first hundred watts, you will be doing well with just the radio. Of course, more power never hurts. It might be possible to turn the radio power down with an adjustment on the board inside. That way the power knob wouldn't get bumped.
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Good info.Here is an article that explains the distance limits of adding power. With the biggest gain being your first hundred watts, you will be doing well with just the radio. Of course, more power never hurts. It might be possible to turn the radio power down with an adjustment on the board inside. That way the power knob wouldn't get bumped.
Power in Perspective | CB Radio Magazine
POWER IN PERSPECTIVE - CB WATTS AND DISTANCE In today's CB world being heard by someone else on the radio can be difficult. There is considerably more interference than there was 20 years ago. CB radios themselves aren't really built to talk very far but many CB radio enthusiasts modify their...
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Jeff
I would get on Facebook and look for 307 Amplifiers, Hopper Built or Carl Built amplifiers. You can explain what radio you have, what modes you like to talk on (AM,FM,SSB), and what the power output of your radio is when the RF power is all the way down. Then these amp builders can tell you what they can make for you that will work.
I have dealt with Carl.
Carl is straight with you about what his stuff will do.
I had a problem with one of his amps one time and he made it right with no hesitation.
73
Jeff