Recent content by dave’s delta

This is on a fishing boat out on the open ocean. Antenna Heights are not an issue. High Wind, boat pitching and snapping, Salt baths are. I have had both and preferred the 2000, talks a lot better (AM use) and a lot less noise than the A-99 (horrible noise) but that was an old school, proper...

Haha no kidding. Although in the marine industry, if you keep em at 375HP or less, they’ll last 20k hours. However, go with the 425HP or 435HP and components become projectiles in less than 500 hours at a very high percentage. Sure like the C9’s and C12’s.

Thank you for detailed responses and links. My 18 year old 70DX Is finally done from the ocean air (used on a boat on the ocean) and the beatin and banging from crashing waves Into the boat. Pretty damn durable radio for the most part. Others have had the same good luck. It’s had to be repaired...

What’s the experts High quality power supply being recommended for these radios these days?

142 for a base and a 140 for a mobile. Better receive than a 2000/148 but give up the SWR and had to make a crystal purchase. My 35 year old 142 even with scratchy sound switches still has perfect receive. Wish my Ranger 70’s had the same. President Washington was a bleedover King. I’ll never...

Wow, that was a read. Any update to this? Any new alternatives to a quality Sigma 4? My experience with one in the mid 80’s to the late 90’s was there was no better ground plane used in my location. It was in a 70 foot tree in the Great Pacific Northwest and held up well to the windstorms and...