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Post by mark4 on Nov 1, 2010 17:45:03 GMT -5
What do you think of the nay Sayers about the browning ping?
I have not had complaints about mine in a long time.
This subject came up over the weekend from a local with a
Mark III.
My Mark IV and IVA have 47uf caps.
So the ping is not that long.
Do the CB'ers in your area find it annoying?
What is your experience?
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Post by railroader on Nov 1, 2010 19:10:29 GMT -5
well mark4 here on ch 18 on the south side of chicago its brownings all-out so there is very little compliants about the ping. But there is people who dont understand what the ping is all about and complain but after you explain what it is they understand. The PING says hey I HAVE A BROWNING, I have one of the baddest radios ever made. I mean lets all remember the ping was a mistake by browning in the early base stations that was corrected. It was the browning owners that said this ping is what seperates me from tram, courier, demco, johnson etc owners and I have to have it in my radio.
RAILROADER 546
CHICAGO IL
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Post by wd8nia on Nov 1, 2010 20:03:09 GMT -5
Two of the locals complained about mine. Curiously/ironically, one of them runs waaaaay too much echo and the other uses roger beep. Everyone got used to the ping eventually and I didn't hear any more whining.
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Post by Sandbagger on Nov 1, 2010 20:44:49 GMT -5
What do you think of the nay Sayers about the browning ping? I have not had complaints about mine in a long time. This subject came up over the weekend from a local with a Mark III. My Mark IV and IVA have 47uf caps. So the ping is not that long. Do the CB'ers in your area find it annoying? What is your experience? I find, in a classic case of hypocritical irony, that those who b*tch the most about the Browning's ping are the same clowns who like other forms of noise toys, like roger beeps. I usually tell them that it's no different than their beep, except mine is in the beginning. I also normally run the stock duration ping (I can switch in additional capacitance if I want it a bit longer), so it should not be that bad. If I want to get rid of it though, all I have to do is run the squelch up until the receiver quiets. Then no more ping. Also, those who make issue of the ping tend to be guys who weren't around when Brownings and Trams ruled the airwaves, so they don't have the same reverence for it..... |
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Post by gator7 on Nov 2, 2010 6:07:50 GMT -5
I my part of the world we have myself and 2 or 3 others who run Brownings. We don't hear too much about the ping. Mine is a bit long. And on occasion I will hear about it. But for the most part we have many operators who are old timers who get it. And if they don't like it. Oh well. ;D
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Post by cbrown on Nov 2, 2010 8:30:51 GMT -5
I like the ping, and I usually get people asking me if it's a noise toy or a real Browning. I've had some great rag chews because of the sound of the ping.  As for the roger beep, I'm one of the people who like it. Not in daily use, but for what it was intended for. Communicating with stations out in the distance (especially with SSB DX comms) are sometimes hard to pull out of the aether, and a roger beep actually aids you in knowing when that station has unkeyed. That being said, keeping the roger beep on when your talking to your local group is annoying. So are the long multi-burst tones that last longer then your conversations. |
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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Nov 3, 2010 15:54:38 GMT -5
The pings will bring out complaints, for sure. I've had them but thankfully not at this location. Railroader probably said it best. The most I get once in awhile is "your mic has a bad squeal at first, ha, ha", My R27/S23 has more of a clang than a ping. I'm the only one running Brownings but the locals are used to it. The ping with a little power makes it easier to cut through busy frequencies when noisy too.
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Post by 555 on Nov 3, 2010 22:06:34 GMT -5
i had a driver come thru and tell me my external speaker was to close to my mic and i needed to move the speaker over in the corner
i replied i have moved the speakers in everycorner an changed them out to different speakers
told him its been to different shops across the country and nobody can fix that squeal
he said its just got to much modulation just move the mic farther away from the speaker
i told him this radio has had the "squeal " in this radio from back in the early 70s and its just there.
i get a kick out of it
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Post by mark4 on Nov 4, 2010 16:30:56 GMT -5
One guy hated it. Just didn't get it. And stated no noise toys what so ever were allowed on the frequency. Good luck with that! It brought out the browning guys and we gave him a earful  Truckers coming through here have no idea what a browning is. This trucker kept telling me my radio was squealing when I keyed up. I just kept keying up asking him if it was still there. After a few minutes of this I told him I figured out he was hearing. My airbrakes!  |
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Post by spiderleggs on Nov 5, 2010 19:02:05 GMT -5
One guy hated it. Just didn't get it. And stated no noise toys what so ever were allowed on the frequency. Good luck with that! It brought out the browning guys and we gave him a earful Truckers coming through here have no idea what a browning is. This trucker kept telling me my radio was squealing when I keyed up. I just kept keying up asking him if it was still there. After a few minutes of this I told him I figured out he was hearing. My airbrakes! Same here, they tell me that my mic is squealing. When I say its part of the radio, one said I bought a bad radio and need to send it back to repair the squeal. |
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Post by Tombstone (R.I.P.) on Nov 5, 2010 19:04:21 GMT -5
Nice on the airbrake thing, ha, ha. I just tell people that tell me about a bad squeal that I'll have the radio checked at a CB shop. Although I've driven big trucks that made a similar sound when I left off of the pedal and the brakes released, Good comeback. I think at one time that there was a rule issued by the FCC that you weren't allowed anything to be transmitted purposly that made interference like noise toys or playing music. I might be wrong on that because Brownings transmit the ping and causes splatter to adjacent channels but were type accepted. The radios did that from the start so this rule that I'm unsure of may have been activated when the irritatng noise toys, roger beeps, and so on started poping up. Playing music is definetly a no no. The toys are useless to me except for turning on the roger beep as described in an earlier post. Their useless except under noisy conditions it's easier to tell when the staton that you're wotking has unkeyed. I have a Galaxy 2527 here that's loaded with everything under the sun ( many out of band frequencies too) but the children's noise controls remain off. Browning on!
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Post by crazybob on Nov 7, 2010 2:25:20 GMT -5
I just sold a Browning Mark III, that had 2 x 40uf caps in paralell. I disabled one of them, & it shortend the ping quite a bit. Here's a link to some video on that one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7-FMigUbosI installed a 20uf cap in my everyday Browning Golden Eagle MK III, in the this video. ..I still get the fix your radio comments, (usually from guys with beeps & echo). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb85K6xAIsw |
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