Sounds Better!

​     A week or so ago I had a meeting at my company's main offices.  For those of you who know me, you know that this also means that I was very close to one of the Ham Radio Outlet stores.  Hooray!
​     If you look at my blog post titled "A Failed Experiment" from December 1st, you'll find out that I was not super thrilled with the receive audio in my mobile station.  I took advantage of the proximity to HRO on my recent business trip, to purchase a mobile speaker.  This one actually:

     All I can say is, I wish I had done that earlier.  In previous cars I just assumed that there was no way anything could sound better than the car's built-in audio system.  Now that I am using one of these speakers, I must say that it sounds waaaaay better.  I'm not an audiophile, so I don't know all the fancy terms, but I'm assuming that because this is a communications speaker, it does a better job with the frequencies specific to the spoken voice, when compared to the audio from the car, which is designed for music, AND had some less than optimal "conversions" of the audio to get it to the car in the first place.
     Anyway, since I blocked the access to the funny map pocket in the center console of my car, I stuck the speaker in that empty space.  It works well there, and sounds good, but I'm not sure yet if that will be the permanent location - this is mainly because I had planned on using that space differently in the upcoming "Phase 2" of my mobile shack.  
     Here's a pic of the speaker in its cubby-hole for the curious:

     While I was at HRO I also grabbed some ferrite beads that I needed for my coil of coax that is serving as a choke, à la the method described by KB0G that I referenced in my post back on 12/6/2015.  Maybe I'll be able to sneak some time this week to snap them on......

​Happy Hamming!