this is a silly discussion.
anyone bothering to respond to rabbiporkchop is only serving to fill his day with internet activity. There is absolutely zero benefit to anyone else reading this.
I have no personal beef with you rabbiporkchop, but you are wasting everyone's time and i think you know it.
I think you know that this type of discussion will never go anywhere conclusive, and i think you are enjoying the back and forth simply because it gives you something to do.
who the hell cares how much sensitivity some tech can squeeze out of a cb/export radio.
atmospheric/man made noise is much greater than these numbers at any given moment and accounts for much of a radio's ability to hear and be heard during normal operation.
for a tech to be telling his customers that his claim to fame is better receive sensitivity without telling them the minimal effect on their day to day communications is borderline snake oil.
It's the same kind of crap CB shops have been pulling since the 70's. they tell you they can get you 10 more watts out of your radio without telling you what that actually equates to on the air.
who the hell cares if Fine Tune can get a .03uV noise floor into his dummy load.
Once the customer plugs that radio into an antenna that noise figure means jack squat on HF.
the real truth is that once the receiver's coils are tuned to properly match the impedance of their next stage, that's all that really matters.
Even if a given CB radio is only sensitive enough to pick up signals greater than 1uV, it will still hear everything out there that gets above the ambient noise created by the world around us.
anyone care to make a guess as to what the average noise level is at 27mhz?
I can tell you that it's more than .5uV which is what the better CB radios spec their sensitivity at.
If you guys enjoy arguing with someone who isn't going to budge one bit no matter what is posted, then have at it.
however, if you would like to go back to spending your time on the forum discussing things with people who actually want to converse/learn, then for goodness sake stop responding to rabbiporkchop's posts.
rabbiporkchop, again, i have no personal beef with you, im just tired of your threads wasting so much space and time on the forum.
I will say that to me, and im sure others, you come across as if you need to make a certain number of positive posts about Fine Tune CB shop each month.
usually this is done because someone has been offered something for free in return.
To all, go to Fine Tune CB shop or don't go to Fine Tune CB shop. that's it. nothing more needs to be said.
I will say that i do a fair amount of work re-modding radios that have been tuned with a scope and spec analyzer because the owner is no longer getting all the flowers on the air that they were used to before.
Flame all you want, i sleep fine at night.
can we PLEASE make this the last 7 page rabbiporkchop trollfest?
LC
