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I understand the rules and wish to enter the contest.

I understand the rules and wish to enter the contest.

$244.95 now or $209.95 w/o the ASP option. Free shipping at HRO and Gigaparts.

This was difficult! Favorite 10/11 meter... Stryker SR955HPC+ Favorite ham rig... Yaesu FTdx101D (my Flex also comes close) HT... too many are tied for top spot.

It's tough to be blood out of a turnip.

Those finals will run fine at the boosted voltage. It's well within the transistor's specs. There is no sence to push an extra 10 or 20 watts out when you are already at the 100w level. Get a high SWR for that one time oops and those finals will say, I'm out of here. I run mine stock to drive an...

You need to install a small jumper on the underside of the board. If nobody else replies, I'll post a photo of mine here this weekend.

Alpha-Delta.

It has multi-color display. Recent review:

Not as cheap as similar radios but at $365 it's a great price.

I use the Contour Design Shuttle Pro 2 (model S-PROV2) along with a simple TTL adapter I made for my frequency/channel selection on my Stryker 955HPC+. I'll have to think about selling it on Ebay I guess. What I'm still working on is addressing the Shuttle's buttons for control functions. A ham...

I had one of those too just before the Stryker. Excellent radio. Nice with the 15 meter mod.

BC, Clearly I do know they use the same HARDWARE board. I compared so many side by side. I thought that was clear? The BIG difference is the magic Stryker did in the firmware, it was not minor. Software/firmware mod is the future. You say the Stryker is excellent? OK, but I didn't say that. I...

The noisy (white noise) RX in the Chinese made radios (Anytone based mostly) have been horrible. I went through a few model variants and dumped them all. They are fixable but no one bothered. They just throw that board in a new case. BUT, along came the Stryker SR-955HPC+. Stryker really did...

I have a Cobra 138XLR and a Cobra 139XLR I have to get on the for sale block. I just took them off the working shelf last week.