Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
  • You can now help support WorldwideDX when you shop on Amazon at no additional cost to you! Simply follow this Shop on Amazon link first and a portion of any purchase is sent to WorldwideDX to help with site costs.
  • A Winner has been selected for the 2025 Radioddity Cyber Monday giveaway! Click Here to see who won!

new 980ssb uniden

  • Thread starter Thread starter BOOTY MONSTER
  • Start date Start date
doffo said:
It was a few years ago, but I was shot down pretty quick when I was inquiring about a service manual for the radio. :D I at least tried lol. But you are right... 1st 980 SSB for some reason the board outright put out crappy power on SSB. Maybe it always did it and I didnt catch onto it. I got that radio in 2016. Held onto the thing and a couple years ago, a parts 980 landed on eBay for cheap. (Think it was $40 + shipping). The radio worked but of course suffered the display problem. Swapped the working display from the broken 980 SSB to the one that came from eBay. Works great for now. I did unlock the clarifier on it too. (I will not keep it in the car as to not expose the display to extreme cold or heat.)
Click to expand...
I still have my 1st generation 980 hooked up in my house and the display still works good but in the car not so good. I'm afraid to expose it to temp fluctuation from what I read. There was a time when it's followers would give you a tongue lashing if you spoke against it. LOL I only use it as a test radio to talk to anymore.
 
  • Like
Reactions: doffo
FlyBoy50 said:
I still have my 1st generation 980 hooked up in my house and the display still works good but in the car not so good. I'm afraid to expose it to temp fluctuation from what I read. There was a time when it's followers would give you a tongue lashing if you spoke against it. LOL I only use it as a test radio to talk to anymore.
Click to expand...
I hear ya. :) I now hooked up the radio, and realized I never actually did the clarifier mod for it... (I must be thinking of some other radio I did it to.). Display is ok and working. I wont get too involved in the radio and probably take it as far as doing the clarifier and leaving it be.
 
  • Like
Reactions: FlyBoy50
doffo said:
I hear ya. :) I now hooked up the radio, and realized I never actually did the clarifier mod for it... (I must be thinking of some other radio I did it to.). Display is ok and working. I wont get too involved in the radio and probably take it as far as doing the clarifier and leaving it be.
Click to expand...
Do you have the 1st or 2nd gen where you can easily quite that awful channel change beep?
 
  • Like
Reactions: doffo
doffo said:
It was a few years ago, but I was shot down pretty quick when I was inquiring about a service manual for the radio. :D I at least tried lol. But you are right... 1st 980 SSB for some reason the board outright put out crappy power on SSB. Maybe it always did it and I didnt catch onto it. I got that radio in 2016. Held onto the thing and a couple years ago, a parts 980 landed on eBay for cheap. (Think it was $40 + shipping). The radio worked but of course suffered the display problem. Swapped the working display from the broken 980 SSB to the one that came from eBay. Works great for now. I did unlock the clarifier on it too. (I will not keep it in the car as to not expose the display to extreme cold or heat.)
Click to expand...
 
BC Coyote said:
I hope I'm wrong, but as far as I know a full schematic for that radio never did surface.

I remember reading that some Brazilian techs did try and reverse engineer one at some point, and they got as far as figuring out the PLL part and had one 980 modded to have export frequencies in it. Brazil has an 80 channel band, so I think they just wanted to use that radio on their whole band.

The shine went off the radio pretty fast when they all started to have the fading/ disappearing display problem after a year or two, and it became apparent that they were very very difficult to modify in any useful way.
Click to expand...
This is true. Ive seen a few mods out there. Beep removal, clarifier unlock. If i could just figure out why its smoking the 10 ohm...
 
vswr said:
This is true. Ive seen a few mods out there. Beep removal, clarifier unlock. If i could just figure out why its smoking the 10 ohm...
Click to expand...
I have 3 or 4 of these. Both versions. None of mine have bad didplays......yet
 
  • Like
Reactions: FlyBoy50
FlyBoy50 said:
Do you have the 1st or 2nd gen where you can easily quite that awful channel change beep?
Click to expand...
I want to say its a 1st gen, but I will upload a picture of it soon. I just got done doing the clarifier mod for it. (I did follow the lescom youtube video, but I didn't take the extra step of the diode to try and give it more slide etc, just let it be. And I didn't have to remove the TX adjustment pot inside the radio. You only really need to clip/remove 1 of the jumper wires are you are good to go.) I will just post a new thread on doing the clarifier mod with pictures. Give me a few to write it up. :)
 
  • Like
  • Wow
Reactions: vswr and FlyBoy50
doffo said:
I want to say its a 1st gen, but I will upload a picture of it soon. I just got done doing the clarifier mod for it. (I did follow the lescom youtube video, but I didn't take the extra step of the diode to try and give it more slide etc, just let it be. And I didn't have to remove the TX adjustment pot inside the radio. You only really need to clip/remove 1 of the jumper wires are you are good to go.) I will just post a new thread on doing the clarifier mod with pictures. Give me a few to write it up. :)
Click to expand...
It's been too long ago since I read a thread on how to identify a 1st from 2nd gen radio by looking at the back of the radio but the 2nd gen I think has the quite the beep in the menu. I'm long past wanting to mod the 980 but I will say the 980 was the first SSB radio I started makeing SSB contacts with after buying 2 bummer used Uniden Washigton radios. So that 980 will always have a spot in my heart, because I couldn't afford a SSB radio Back in the Day ! LOL
 
  • Like
Reactions: doffo
FlyBoy50 said:
It's been too long ago since I read a thread on how to identify a 1st from 2nd gen radio by looking at the back of the radio but the 2nd gen I think has the quite the beep in the menu. I'm long past wanting to mod the 980 but I will say the 980 was the first SSB radio I started makeing SSB contacts with after buying 2 bummer used Uniden Washigton radios. So that 980 will always have a spot in my heart, because I couldn't afford a SSB radio Back in the Day ! LOL
Click to expand...
I hear that. One radio that will always be close to me is the slant face Sears Roadtalker radios. I need to bring one back out soon and use it once again. Bummer your Uniden Washington radios gave you grief. They are actually good. (Though, there were 2 variations of them, the 858 PLL or the MB8719 PLL.)
 
  • Like
Reactions: FlyBoy50
doffo said:
Bummer your Uniden Washington radios gave you grief. They are actually good. (Though, there were 2 variations of them, the 858 PLL or the MB8719 PLL.)
Click to expand...
That's why I bought them because I remembered hearing the Washingtons were good SSBers when I was getting back into radio again. But I learned a valuable lesson ( Stay away from eBay and Craiglist ) LOL
 
  • Like
Reactions: doffo
doffo said:
I want to say its a 1st gen, but I will upload a picture of it soon. I just got done doing the clarifier mod for it. (I did follow the lescom youtube video, but I didn't take the extra step of the diode to try and give it more slide etc, just let it be. And I didn't have to remove the TX adjustment pot inside the radio. You only really need to clip/remove 1 of the jumper wires are you are good to go.) I will just post a new thread on doing the clarifier mod with pictures. Give me a few to write it up. :)
Click to expand...
Cant wait!
 
  • Like
Reactions: doffo

dxChat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.


      Top Bottom