Recent content by snippits75

I had the Cobra 450 XL back years ago. It had Motorola 454 transistors. From the previous link that was posted, it looked the same on the outside and inside. I bought it to flip fast, but now I know that was a mistake. A deputy sheriff in VA now owns that beauty!

Overall, conditions have been down lately for me over the previous weeks/months. But I have made some first time contacts too. Today made contact with division 138, Vatican City State, that I have been trying to get for a while. Had contact with division 226, Malawi, in Africa over the...

1.7 won't even trigger the factory default setting of 2.0 SWR alert on the export radios, so yes I think you should be just fine. Good luck with the Elkin because they are fine amps.

If you got the input to adjust with the tuner in the picture, then don't touch the other ones especially if you don't know what they are for. I know at least one of them is for bias tune, and I have no idea what all the others do.

You tuned it with amp on yes? There are other tuners in there. My six tube had six or seven of the tuners that is shown in the picture. The man that built and designed the Elkin amps told me himself to use six foot jumpers. I was at Ray's shop in Elkin, NC to pick up my four tube 12DQ6B amp...

There is a variable tuner inside the case(bottom) that tunes the input. Flip it upside down, and take the bottom off. It's been a few years since I have tuned the input on a Elkin four tube and six tube. Take a picture of it if you can.

Lots of noise pointing towards Europe today. It's raining solar protons, and my radio hears it. It's a good bit quieter pointing towards South America. Finally, made contact with Ecuador for the first time. Only time I have ever heard division 61. The contact was 61RC104 from Quito...

Go into menu, and do a reset all.

Finally logged Rwanda 227AT160 at 5/5. Thought I would never get through that pile up lol.

Around 2:00 PM est., static got very loud on my radio. Did not matter which way I turned my beam. Did have better conditions in the morning though. Logged Russia and Qatar which is rare for me. There was a Turkish station that I could hear good 5/6, but the European operators created a...

tramdr from CB Radio History Channel on YouTube reversed engineered, power supply schematic only, an Elkin four tube that is ob2(tubes) regulated. Schematics are on the video. Not sure if it will help you or not. He has some other videos on Elkin amps too. Send tramdr some pictures, or make a...

On Sunday the 3rd, around about 3:00 PM est., noise just all of a sudden got very bad in my receiver. AM side was just a loud hum, and SSB was super noisy too. Thought something had happened to coax and antenna. Nope, it was G2 solar storm causing the noise some how or another. My radio was...

Have fun just be aware of the travel advisory. Jamaica Travel Advisory.

@BC Coyote Thanks! I got lucky. I just happened to be on the frequency when he called. I spotted him on ClusterDX, and now others are spotting.

Finally got Kenya just now. Made contact with 187DA/DX from Nairobi, Kenya on 27.585 USB. Conditions on my end not that good this afternoon. We were both at 5/3, but he was crystal clear on my radio.