When you said Cobra 2000GTL you were on the right track for an am radio.

May be one the yaesu 900s or one of the newer Icoms or Kenwoods How about it what it the best to Modify for 11 meters For the use on A.M and side band.

Thank you.

Those high dollar strictly ham HF rigs have very poor audio on AM.

Its your choice Get the RCI 2995 it will fit your needs perfectly.

Maybe you are just used to hearing the overmodulated, clipped cb radios.

The older ham radios was suppose to be really good on cutting out the nose on the receive.

The older cb radio dint even come close to the older ham radios.

Even thaw there has been great improvement in the last twenty years.

How are the newer ham radio on receive The newer ham radios are so compact.

Ive had all kinds of ham radios and none of them were worth a flip on AM so i got rid of them and got a regular AMSSB radio like a Galaxy or a RCI.

As a sidenote not all radios that are clipped sound overmodulated.

I run a clipped out Cobra 142 GTL and a RCI 2980 and not once have i EVER had a negative report on it.

Never could get it to sound right no matter were i had the AM set.

A freind of mine had a Icom IC 706 MKII and it worked great on AM.

Gues you are right they are making newer radios with higher level AM audio.

All the radios i had were pre 1990 (actually pre 1988) so they were old and didnt have high level audio.

A clipped radio done by someone who knows what they are doing sounds good, especially if a scope is involved, but some are so overmodulated you can not understand what the heck they are saying I heard one the other day that bled from two channels over on the KW, and that NEVER happens on the KW he was on 26 AM and I was on 28AM.

It still amazes me as to how many people still think that a true Ham radio used in the CB band will out perform a converted 10 meter radio on A-M.

I know of no Ham radio that does not use anything other than Low Level audio in the A-M mode.

Any RCI-Galaxy Turbo can (and will) outperform any Ham radio on both A-M and SSB in reguards to power and modulation.

However, the 10 meter radios do sacrafice super clean audio for its 200 watts power capabilities and 100 modulation.

Using a Ham radio on A-M in the CB band is not only illegal but silly since there are so many 10 meter radios out there that will run circles around them.

I have an ICOM 735 that works very good on AM, Of course my 735 was never in the hands of a screwdriver expert, only the ICOM tech.

Now I think I have explained why amateur equipment does not work well on AM.

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