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Recent content by Diesel2650

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    Cb channels empty for the most part.

    North central IL only like 7-9 high power guys on 2 channels. 2 towns away the guys that cant get out on 6 run 11. Park ridge area has some high power mobile buddies on 22. Not much, I flip around some nights calling out, no one ever answers, even 38lsb.
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    Uniden 980 SSB

    Under the speaker cover are tunning points. They are makred. Turn up the modulation, turn up or down the power for what you want. Its all been talked about with pictures. I got a 2 watt dead key and modulate to 10 watts, some can get 12.
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    Requirements for DX

    I used to get 7 miles almost all the time, 25-30 miles on a good day with a tuned up cobra 29 ltd classic. I never ran a 102" whip so I dont know. Once I got my kl-203 and 980 skip came easy on the right days, probably 2000 miles so for me I say a good antenna, ssb radio and 100 watts but thats...
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    Uniden 980 no modulation

    New radio? New to you radio? Used to work but dont no more? If its new warranty it. Somewheres on here is a post with a pic road map of the board. AMC might b turned all the way down, they turn 360* and never stop so easy to turn past max to none n back again. Found it, not on here but heres the...
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    Got the Uniden 980 today!

    I havent messed with my colors since I got the radio but if I remember right pick a color and then adjust the intensity of the color.
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    Scanner help?

    Police are switching to digital incripted radios. Scanning is dead for now. A radio costs $4,000.00ish so the scanner companies do not see a return from buying one and reverse enginering to be able to scan. The funny part is PDS spent $2million to convert and come up with dead spots which take...
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    shops in schaumburg ill. or surrounding area?

    Soundwerks in Northlake just past Bensenville on Grand Av. Nice old guy with wierd hours if hes still open. Pricey but he has to be cause he dont sell anything. 847-451-0787 see if hes still around. The big one used to be Rays electronics in Bensenville but he moved to Addison in 95 and dropped...
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    Uniden 980 SSB - crowdsource the frequency mod?

    Id donate, I like my 980, cool little radio.
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    Uniden 980 SSB

    Hes right. The greatest increase in s-units for the least $ comes from the 1st 100 watts.
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    Got the Uniden 980 today!

    Its not hard to get rid of the beep as long as u got good eyes or somethin to help magnify.
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    Uniden 980 SSB

    The computer people can hack computers and websites to do things they wernt made to do, the cell phone people can hack a phone n flash its rom n make it do things it wasnt made to do. The tunners can hack a cars computer n make it do things it wasnt made to do. In this day n age of tech stuff...
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    KL-503 & KL-500?

    I know the kl-503 uses mosfets, the 500 is still pills. Am the 503 swings 200-250, the 500 I read 300+
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    Uniden 980 SSB

    I got mine from amazon about a yr ago and the radio and everything that comes with it were in their own bags in cardboard cut outs with plastic cover film on the face and chrome. Sounds like they sent you a used one.
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    Uniden 980 SSB

    Still waiting as well. I left comments for the poster of the beep mod thanking him cause everyone else was a nay sayer. It was a new member with one post. I had hoped hed come back with more but nothing.
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    Uniden 980 SSB

    The beep mod was 1st posted on a smaller forum. In his words " I got tired of that beep so I used my reverse enginering skills to discover the beep is run by resistor". He gives the value of the resistor and talks about changing the values to change the beep. If its the same guy that did the...