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    loosecannon replied to the thread Palomar RFX95HD.
    Eldorado, yes that resistor added to the solder side of the board is the one to change the value on in order to raise the deadkey...
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    one thing you might want to make sure of is that the negative lead of the battery is only connected to ground when the mic is keyed...
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    VR16, the final transistor's bias control is famous for getting blown out when a final fails. Turning it tends not to show much...
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    loosecannon reacted to Hawkeye351's post in the thread Why? with Like Like.
    Yes, by realigning the RF stage will usually clean it up. Then if I want a little less AMC attack, I will strap a 22k ohm resistor...
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    I know Brad myself and call him a friend aside from wwdx. Maybe I misunderstood the post and knowing Brad isn't around to respond, I may...
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    575nightrider, your post is actually somewhat understandable, given the current nature of social media in general. In most places, its...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Why?.
    LOL he sounds like quite a character. Does the 4800 have the board version that uses SMT like the 2950DX? Because i found that the NPC...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Why?.
    I appreciate the reply. when you say NPC, are you including volting the final along with it? i never do that, but many do, so i feel...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Why?.
    The reason i ask is that we generally call the "adding diode to existing resistor" a swing mod, while we call adding the diode/resistor...
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    loosecannon reacted to nomadradio's post in the thread SWR & TUNDERBOLT 305 with Like Like.
    The radio most likely puts out a fairly clean signal, without a lot of extra frequencies besides your channel frequency coming out of...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Why?.
    Hawkeye, are you talking about the difference between adding a diode to a certain resistor that already exists, and adding the...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Amp help.
    yeah Shadetree i just don't know. I mean, technically you are trying to feed RF into the collectors of the transistors when you hook it...
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    loosecannon replied to the thread Amp help.
    i dont know that this would have damaged anything. someone correct me if im wrong here, but it would seem to me that if the input of...
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    also, if you are measuring at TP8, this chassis drops down 2.5khz on AM TX. so if you measured 35.005 on receive, you'd measure 35.0025...
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    If anyone is wondering what the two cut wires are in Nomad's 4th pic, that's factory and would go to the 10KC switch if they had...