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Recent content by drgrant

  1. drgrant

    Such hackery.... I might get sick!

    In a box in my basement I have the docs for the WS mod.... its a thicc manual... lmao. that's the most amount of work for the smallest gain I've ever seen in a radio mod, even with someone competent its hours of work!
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    Need tech for President JFK mod/restore.

    I just picked up an original JFK from france. Need someone to do the mod to unlock it, as it's stuck on straight 40. (i think a couple traces need to be cut and 2 crystals added). Radio otherwise works but can use a tuneup/check. Puts out about 6w max with rf power up. Also need to...
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    Why Do YOU Use an Amplifier?

    Hey back in the day I kept a 250A alternator in my 89 Tempo with a section of 2 x 4..... but my resident radio craftsman/machinist isn't around anymore.....
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    Why Do YOU Use an Amplifier?

    Easier said than done, I typically drive sedans that don't have much space in the engine compartment for that sort of thing....
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    Why Do YOU Use an Amplifier?

    I have no problem with either but on a base setup preference would definitely be tubes, 3-500Z or large pls. Generally cleaner output, higher tolerance for unintended abuse, etc. For mobile use I would consider selling a kidney to have a dual BLF188XR LDMOS amp though, problem is...
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    New Icom IC-7300 Approved

    Any specific reasons? My current problem with yaesu gear is I sit in front of it for 5 minutes and am basically totally lost, I'd have to spend some serious time figuring stuff out. That 991 though is one of the few radios that they have, from the outset, that I don't completely hate.
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    New Set-Up in Progress

    That speaker is really that good? I thought about springing for one of those...
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    RCI-2950CD owners chime in.. new owner here

    You're somehow getting that out of a DX350? Hell back in the day with mine, even with real Toshibas, I think 300 was pretty much the max on 14vdc. (and I never ran it that hard because the linearity was obviously compromised at that point.).
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    RCI-2950CD owners chime in.. new owner here

    For some reason my mind skipped a step and I thought it was one of those deals where someone had blown out the pot or something. Hell in that case if the DAW pot works fine I would just keep using that.
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    New Icom IC-7300 Approved

    One thing I'm noticing on this radio... stupidly good ears. With preamp on even some of the weaker signals will come in while I'm driving around and sound like they're not far away, etc. Unless I get lucky and the other guy has a low noise floor at his station, I end up in a situation...
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    Purchased new Texas Star DX1600X

    Because there are no large (over a few hundred watts) mass produced mobile HF amps on the market that are worth a shit, the only one left that's commonly available is the ALS-500M which is basically a W8JI garbage pile that a bunch of hams dance around because of all the filtering in it as if...
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    RCI-2950CD owners chime in.. new owner here

    Honestly on a TS350 you're better off just fixing the input swamping so it'll take a normal radio with the "dial a watt" switch turned on for AM use. Might take talking to a few people but its probably about $5 in parts to get the right value resistor in there to swamp a 4W dead key...
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    Anybody use a Kenwood TM-V71A?

    Nice, you'll be hearing the beedoop etc soon enough. :) Also protip- at least as shipped, the memory bank in this radio is monolithic. EG, its not XXX channels per side, its like hundreds of channels all inclusive. So what I did is I started my UHF crap at like 200+ or something...
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    8 guage wire fuse holder

    Problem with all the TS amps is all of them have shitty wire that is too small for the amp, and that fuseholder will melt off in short order. You don't have to go FR on an amp that small, but some of those big capsule type fuseholders used in car audio work very well. I forget what...
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    MaCo Super 300 Amateur

    Reminds me of a MaCO I sold my friend out in WI.... I have to reconnect with him and find out if it still working, it was a 1 driving 3 8950, but the tech I had set it so the radio drove all four.... much much nicer.