Recent content by towerdog

My guess would be exposure to moisture over a very long time. I had a rusty old Kenwood HF rig like this, worked great when it worked but always something burning out, vco not locking or relay not clicking. Resins, various varnishes, flux all break down and change over time too, vco was an...

Your radio might have issues or need alignment. The Gray 300 has one of the better preamps compared to others I have used. Not much use on AM as the noise floor is almost always higher than a weak signal but excellent on SSB to make a weak signal loud enough to hear in a mobile.

11 year old thread. I don't like the word can't, where there is a will there is a way, but there should also be a market for it.

It's hidden under the PLL chip

don't work, all you get is an FM icon, but without actual FM. same for the midland 75-830, 820 and 822

They are probably waiting for others to come out with FM to see how they sell. AFAIK only one selling FCC approved FM is President, and they only offer one model with CTCSS and DCS, a walkie talkie!

More like crackhead infested cesspool and copper they will steal. They steal aluminum too, happen to my old boss's rentals, took the damn siding off the house.

g good point.

It's why I said "pretty much". I had one CCR that really was not that cheap, my first HT, a mid 2000s vintage $50 Feidaxin FDC-150, looks different than the new FDC 150, and it was heavy, loud and excellent RX on 2m although the bnc antenna broke the 1st month of using it. It had...

To find the best somebody needs to hold a contest. Hard to go wrong with an old Cobra 29 though, or even a Cobra 25.

That's pretty much all chinese radios. Cheap toys some less bad than others, but not to be trusted when communications are a necessity.

Arbee has a lot of interesting products, some of them look like Baofengs but others unique like the HT with AM airband RX and giant LCD

not my auction. if it was $50 cheaper I would buy it but still not a bad deal.

I really want a Randy III but with CTCSS/DCS, repeater offset and of course expanded coverage beyond the 40 channels. They figured it all out on the EU version but nothing so far with the FCC. $150 is still too much for me to either be the first one to hack it or one of many to fubar it.