Recent content by Onelasttime

I like being able to read peak accurately on my Telewave 44 and being able to read from 5 to 500 with no need for slugs.

I currently own a Daiwa Cross Needle, Micronta from 1980's that has the 3 meters and remote mount and a Telewave 44. The Mircronta is for base use and mostly because it has remote monting and modulation reading. The Diawa is used mostly when I set up a mobile because it is compact but still easy...

People like to poop on the QT40 but for like $149 they are diamonds in the rough! Perfect? Nope! Darn good though. If the people in the know actualy applied themselves to this radio it could be great but their is no money in it for them so no attention. Probably good that they do not or it...

Normaly it is slowly over time even when driven hard but not abused it is slow. The other way is something else besides the tube lets go inside and you get massive arcing and not only is the tube gone and your underware but a lot of other parts are gone as well. This is rather rare though. I...

I do not think you need to have a college degree to be a good technician. Some of the best I have known did not finish college because of that pesky thing called Vietnam. College is not worth the price of admission today is depends. I do not care if someone has a degree or not everyone in my...

I paid over $400 from HRO in 1991 for my RCI2950 I remeber that by 1993 once non-Ham radio outlets started to carry them and I do not mean the refurbished units either price dropped down to $249. That was the direction the industry should have followed. The owners of Galaxya nd Ranger should...

What the heck does this even mean "robotic pumpy ringadingzing newer dsp hf radios sound"? I am guessing from context this is a bad thing but not sure. LOL

I do not think of a watt meter as an absolute or precision tool it is about trending data and close enough at best. We have far more accurate tools than "the watt meter"!

Why would anyone not talking on the air purposfuly interfer? To bad Uncle Sam never updated you on the solution? If it was a plasma TV or Solar Power Inverter etc????

I think I would have used some evape-o-rust(sp) lightly feather the area's. Then apply some bondo or glazing putty. Sand, prime, rinse and repeat. Top coat to get as close as you can to finished OEM look. Never purchase a radio, a car, or beanie baby as an investment with potential resale...

That is not that bad for a Franken radio! Well done! While I am not a huge fan of slapping amps onto radio's I have done it myself a few times in the 1990's. I mostly am against OEM's doing it since it is a terrible practice. When people do it themselves I do not have a problem with it other...

Because there are a lot of old guys still in the game and because any alternative is either just as expensive or more so or the build quality is junk. Early on they made a very consistent, durable, repeatable product that had a high enough degree of accuracy. They where the industry standard...

I know I have bought a few parts from him. I can not recall what exactly but everything was as listed and shipping was reasonable.

KM sells kits on ebay or used too.

Well I am sure they do the same thing other's do and just not populate those parts of the board that would hold the SSB componets. So I would not think of it as a new radio rather another model a family of radio's. Figure out the parent board and you will have answered all of the questions you...