Recent content by rowemesp

I trimmed the whip to be resonate on 10m.

I use this radio (AT-5555N2) for 10m ham in my truck, paired with a Wilson 1000 mag mount antenna centered on the roof. I've been shocked at how well this radio breaks through the pileups (no amp). Other operators often comment on the good sound quality (stock mic). For what it costs, you...

Yup. . . it is. The result of me cutting it, trying to reduce an SWR on a broken antenna. I bought a spare whip while I was at the radio shop that I intend to use after I get the 11m band working. I don't know if this antenna will cover both 10m and 11m (without a tuner), but the SWR's I've...

UPDATE: I have some experience dialing in the SWR on CBs. . .what I was seeing didn't make sense. After sleeping on it, I decided to go to the radio shop and have a tech use an antenna analyzer on it--he determined that the NEW Wilson 1000 he'd sold me yesterday was BAD out of the box. He...

That's the info I was looking for--makes perfect sense! Thanks for the help! --Rob

My foray into HF is getting off to a rocky start! I got the Q5NII installed, and the (new) Wilson 1000 (mag mount) put on the center of my truck's roof. I realized there'd be some trimming of the whip involved, but after about 2 hours of carefully removing 1/4"-1/2" pieces off the length and...

My bad. . . .when I made the original post, I was having a senior moment (going by memory)--the default setting is in fact, set to "electret". Thanks for the responses. --Rob

So, I should change the mic setting in the function settings to electret, correct? It seems like it would be pre-configured for the stock mic

Hi all. I'm new to hf ops, and I just took delivery of my Q5NII yesterday. Going through the function menus I noticed that mic type on my radio is set to "dynamic". It seems that I saw a video somewhere that states that the stock mic is electret. What type of mic comes with this radio...