NRC:
Reviews of radios so equipped aren’t by those for whom Citizen Band is central to their daily welfare. Income potential changes daily for professional drivers, and risk is ever-present. This pairing is why you’ll see me uphold clarity as the path to success.
Reviewers will skip over this, not recognizing its importance. Clarity brings in the faint signal despite others who are boastful, arrogant, aggravating and vain.
The value of digital signal processing gets buried underneath content. First, it doesn’t matter who is speaking or what they are speaking about much less the vocabulary. (This is where the thread on NRC value gets lost; Joe Suburbanite turns it off . . . he isn’t up to the struggle).
Second, the value of DSP is tied to clarity as a function of secondary vocal characteristics. The manner in which something is being said. What on an obsolete radio design (though brand new) seems a lot of gutter sweepings is actually one user or several just giving another man a hard time. Ribbing him.
We’ve cut away the noise which predominates where voices just barely make it out, to where vocal characteristics make it much clearer how something is being said.
“You” might get excitable sounding on-air when a wreck is happening right out in front of you. Gettin’ your cherry popped. Others of us are just kinda choppy in remembering the Mile Marker as we haul down on 77,000-lbs and the need to stay upright.
A). Others aren’t necessarily going to react because you suddenly went up two octaves and are garbling syntax.
B). Others aren’t necessarily going to react hearing US Army radio etiquette given in flat cadence. Order of Precedence.
Nature of Problem
US State
Highway Identification
Direction of Travel
Best Location Approximation
(Repeat)
For those who are monitoring road conditions key words & phrases cause attention to come to focus.
NRC makes it more likely you’ll hear something.
Your single chance.
C). Because you are now a regular on-air participant, the clarity of your rig means others can comprehend the subtler uses of your voice.
They’re more relaxed. Open. And may recall what they believe you ought to know that’s still up ahead of you. That they passed two hours ago.
— Weather, when combined with higher traffic volume, is a hazard for everyone. Cracker barrel discussions.
— Or, it’s that the Net is down past X-burg and there’s no way to buy fuel or provisions the next 200-miles eastbound without cash. What alternatives or reports from the next major road 100-miles south?
— Or maybe it’s breaking dawn on IH-40 and the other man asks if you know the Loves Travel Center just west of ABQ. Recommends a coffee break to watch the hot air balloons ascend from that high vantage point during the festival.
The man with a good radio system.
Can hear and be heard. With clarity. Will learn more since others are likelier to speak with him as they’ve heard him, first.
— The most basic communication is an information trade. What you’ve passed (as above) and asking what’s out ahead?
The GEORGE also has a bit of RX equalization to dial in that DRX-901 according to its mount location, an open window and other radio settings. (Best extension speaker isn’t optional, IMO). Not quite treble & bass, but that emphasis.
The better you can hear (audio fidelity), the easier become all aspects of operation. Goes without saying that the antenna system had gilt leaf applied. Others will appreciate that there are those who care enough to get it right, and respond on principle. That man with the good system might hear something in mine I need to correct.
A great radio can’t overcome being handicapped. But it’ll instantly make apparent on a familiar road how much you were missing previously. (Quality).
Clarity is a Quality without which one is bereft of the means necessary.
NRC isn’t just “noise reduction”. It’s a speech clarifier and enables the radio receiver to reach its limits in what you can comprehend. Hear well enough to respond.
— Your audio system needs attention: HQ speaker plus overhead mount above left shoulder is the ideal. Experiment at speed with open windows. NRC means highest volume setting isn’t necessary when you get speaker mount location right.
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