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I just purchased a President George FCC and was able to access the service menu. The radio came out of the box putting out 2.69 watts in AM mode. I boosted the AM PWR HI and LO settings and now am seeing 4 watts. This radio's setting values appear to be limited to prevent users from exceeding FCC output values. Can anyone here advise what the meaning of USB or LSB HI or LO "DC" is? AM is straight forward in the description-AM PWR HI or LO. Thought I would ask before adjusting this one. Thanks.

Regards, Digger73
 

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Thanks Slowmover-this video and the pdf attachment helped a lot. I will get back into the menu and make a couple adjustments. Although, I may have been talking to a base station, I didn't ask? On a radio check from 10 miles away, my signal was strong and the modulation was "clear as a bell".


Were you mobile?
 

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Were you mobile?
Yes indeed. I have a Stryker SR-10A Magnetic Mount on a SUV. At the windshield brow because the entire roof is glass. Ground plane? Only good one is the hood I suspect. I was at least 10 miles away with the cities of Lansing, East Lansing, MI and most of Delhi Twp between the two units given where the other fella said he was located.
 

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Yes indeed. I have a Stryker SR-10A Magnetic Mount on a SUV. At the windshield brow because the entire roof is glass. Ground plane? Only good one is the hood I suspect. I was at least 10 miles away with the cities of Lansing, East Lansing, MI and most of Delhi Twp between the two units given where the other fella said he was located.
Also, I am a little off topic Slowmover....in another post you mentioned CB users pushing skip and ruining usable comm across the country. I was travelling up US 127/I-75 from Lansing across the bridge to the Soo. For a solid three a half hours, each time I turned the volume up Hard Drive-Mud Duck in the Desert rambled on about window lickers, splatter boxes, and other nonsense. I found out by research this chap is Mark Sherman from Lordsburg, NM? I signed an online petition at change.org where 15,000 other users have done the same requesting the FCC deal with this guy. I generally am not an activist, but I was all-in on CB equipment in the 70's, 80's, and some of the 90s and now have the time to use it again....but, what the heck? Another guy, Miami 163 or something close was doing it the next day. I know we cannot replicate the good old days, but I would sure like to use this new investment for conversation and when really needed.
 

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....in another post you mentioned CB users pushing skip and ruining usable comm across the country. I was travelling up US 127/I-75 from Lansing across the bridge to the Soo. For a solid three a half hours, each time I turned the volume up Hard Drive-Mud Duck in the Desert rambled on about window lickers, splatter boxes, and other nonsense. I found out by research this chap is Mark Sherman from Lordsburg, NM?
I hear this all the time, in the Detroit area. The transmissions are rapid fire, to the point of not being able to hear any possible replies being made. That makes me wonder if someone uses sound bites of him, and is blasting them out.
 

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Anything is possible? There were some variations in the content over the course of the evening I heard this. And leaving the radio on, these transmissions would be about ten minutes apart....always ending with "back to the bench". There was also times when he was talking to someone within range of him receiving? If they were even real? These conversations were targeting other CB shops with comments of how bad they were. I have used the CB sporadically over the last couple decades when travelling to visit daughters in Ashville, NC, Austin TX, and Athens, OH. I had not heard this guy before....
 

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Anything is possible? There were some variations in the content over the course of the evening I heard this. And leaving the radio on, these transmissions would be about ten minutes apart....always ending with "back to the bench". There was also times when he was talking to someone within range of him receiving? If they were even real? These conversations were targeting other CB shops with comments of how bad they were. I have used the CB sporadically over the last couple decades when travelling to visit daughters in Ashville, NC, Austin TX, and Athens, OH. I had not heard this guy before....
The same things are said, repeatedly. As in about a two hour rotation.
 

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It’s same stuff, but not a recording. DuckDik can’t make money modifying a Qixiang board. So he’s ringleader.

There are a couple dozen major violators. Their job is jam things up and encourage others to do the same.

Skip has no business being on 9/19. (38) other channels for that as well as upper & lower Sideband. (118) in all.

Content isn’t the point. It’s to make AM-19 unusable.
 

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Compensation.

As one I heard one recently say to another (these guys ain’t too bright), “. . this sure beats having to go to work any more”.

Ever wonder who always has online discount codes? Other bills (phone & Internet, etc) can be paid remotely by third parties. Get ‘em on SSI, etc.

The cross-border invasion underway forty years has created parallel societies. NGOs using tax money support, nascently. Native traitors have always existed, now they’re prevalent.

It’s not their agenda. Their psych profile shows adequate thrill at being secret insider. Etc.

Theirs is not to question why,
Theirs is but to do or cry



Clarity is thus first line of defense.
AM 9/19 are sacrosanct.

Take that to the bank for what these offenses mean.

Best Gear has greater weight, today.

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Wireless Mic

 

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It’s same stuff, but not a recording. DuckDik can’t make money modifying a Qixiang board. So he’s ringleader.

There are a couple dozen major violators. Their job is jam things up and encourage others to do the same.

Skip has no business being on 9/19. (38) other channels for that as well as upper & lower Sideband. (118) in all.

Content isn’t the point. It’s to make AM-19 unusable.
Mud dick, not a misspelling, back to the bench, he proves what a window licker is! He is more than likely 4 foot tall with very small tools!
 

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I made another trip up to Michigan’s U.P. The xway LED sign warned of whiteout conditions to begin at a specific mile number 310 and they were not overstating the warning. The world went white and the road disappeared. But, Channel 19 came alive with warnings of spun out vehicles and their locations. It was an hour and a half of 25mph. But, Hard Drive was not in the mood to suppress the communication and hamper safety at that time apparently. On the way back a couple were pushing skip out of Florida and reportedly Alaska. Oh, well. Today Mud Dick was back at it…and he was bleeding over FM of course, but I also heard him on USB channel 19. Simple mind I guess, he topic never varies much. But, I went to 37 LSB and some chaps were speaking between Nova Scotia and other states here. Using call signs and sensible conversations. My President George is working out well. I have experimented with the service menu settings and feel I am xmitting and receiving at reasonable distances with clarity.
 

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Using the G2 FCC with an external speaker? (Said, really, to everyone, not just OP). Why best gear & install pay off question.

Today’s vehicles make where to mount gear? a difficulty, but incessant road hum causes that install trouble taken to become beneficial.

As the audio is now so good what with NRC, the leverage of a speaker lends an ease to conversations not present before. The details of HOW things are said become prominent.

One’s acumen is heightened, though that seems far-fetched. The more time behind the mic, the better one becomes in evaluating responses to his queries & answers. He adapts, as it’s not wholly content, but context.

A heads-up is needed quite a few miles in advance to avoid worst entanglement of image linked. A mile or two won’t do as time/distance is too short.

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Speaking is a bit like an exercise warm-up. Stretching. Best results monitoring AM-19 are when once in the groove as participant. The familiarity of one’s voice to others identifies him as likely friend & ally he keys up he hears something. This amplifies quality.

Quality is harder to define than quantity. But it’s the edge needed (“clarity”).

Tuned ears (the phrase of another) is that towards which we work. The feedback of others used to improve our own performance shortens in time what we need for accurate answers.

—Everyone is moving away from everyone else.

To that end is also the SNR reduction via feedpoint & coax chokes. Much more apparent with best audio-quality speaker if my experience is allowed as “value received”.

It’s also easier to distinguish what may be coming across DC power. Volume WAY up.

That experience in painstaking trouble and a few more bux is that after sunset or pre-dawn it’s possible to have near-total silence. So much so that one forgets he’s got the volume far up . . until he’s blasted by some fellow not far away.

These NRC radios are really great in separating out the wheat from the chaff via one’s rig install. What & Where. One now has the tools to do something about the last 10% (where the first 90% wasn’t so hard).

I couldn’t emphasize enough the confidence this lends when I’ve remedied all that I can . . and now it matters.

1). The whole of the trip is more enjoyable = The a-wipes not nearly as aggravating.

2). I’m expected to be a participant = My efforts make me welcome.

— There can be a point one starts to actually see his words having an effect in how traffic is modifying its positions. When a serious problem is out ahead this is crucial to one’s decisions in steering & braking as what’s behind one is equally important to what’s ahead.

Sideband while mobile is the other test.
Where a KL203 proves its mettle.

“ET phone home . .”, is that the heart needs what the brain might gloss over. Sociability.

G2 is right radio, granted, better systems the other half to fully understand that reach & grasp have met.

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I made another trip up to Michigan’s U.P. The xway LED sign warned of whiteout conditions to begin at a specific mile number 310 and they were not overstating the warning. The world went white and the road disappeared. But, Channel 19 came alive with warnings of spun out vehicles and their locations. It was an hour and a half of 25mph. But, Hard Drive was not in the mood to suppress the communication and hamper safety at that time apparently. On the way back a couple were pushing skip out of Florida and reportedly Alaska. Oh, well. Today Mud Dick was back at it…and he was bleeding over FM of course, but I also heard him on USB channel 19. Simple mind I guess, he topic never varies much. But, I went to 37 LSB and some chaps were speaking between Nova Scotia and other states here. Using call signs and sensible conversations. My President George is working out well. I have experimented with the service menu settings and feel I am xmitting and receiving at reasonable distances with clarity.
I'm not surprised that lake effect snow would get blinding white out level there. It is good to know that someone was spreading the word.

Using SSB on channel 19 will not help, because the signals are still present.
 

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I have not used the G2 FCC without an external speaker. I had a Wilson metal case speaker I purchased in OH, used it once and I could hardly hear it with this radio. I stopped at a random truck stop and they had another brand of what appears Astatic 302 for $20. I also have a Cobra with TB.

I just typed a bunch of other comments and questions and apparently needed to refresh the page before starting. It wasn’t saved when submitting. Live and learn….too frustrated to go back over it right now.
 
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