The CRE 8900 on SSB though is just awesome, paired with the new Sirio antenna I've been using I actually haven't turned on my amp in a couple of months. So if I was running an amp on AM and wanted a low deadkey with swing the 2950DX will drive the amp much better than the CRE 8900. With the deadkey lowered to 1-2 watts on AM you'll only see 5-6 watts of swing. I will say with my 2950DX after some mods/tuning I could get swing to 40 watts on AM from a 3-4 watt deadkey and 40 watts SSB whereas on the CRE 8900 you'll prob see about 20-25 watts AM max from a 8-10 watt deadkey and 50 watts SSB. The stock mic on the CRE 8900 will pick up road noise at highway speeds even with the mic gain set modestly but when I added the road devil it solved the road noise issue and brought even more punch to the audio. A couple of people who took my advice and added one had the same results. You can run a power mic on the CRE 8900 but in my testing I had problems with many as they overloaded the audio and picked up excessive background noise, but as mentioned in my review the road devil noise canceling power mic seems to work awesomely on this radio.
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