Recent content by Woody-202

and Astatic hand mics have terrible PTT switches

Excellent microphone with good audio. I have 3 on each of my Presidents, and one in the box for a spare. The mic fits my hand perfectly, has a decent weight to it, and just oozes quality engineering.

Yep. I bought the 1st version of the Moonraker Titan to test/review last year. This year they came out with a new improved ver.2 Titan. Same price USD, but I guess due to tariffs the end result is about $40 higher, so I passed. DxEngineering has started selling Moonraker products, maybe what...

Old school: President Grant export Lafayette Telsat 25 (had a crystal exchange to get 37. 38, 39, 40) Pace 1000B 40ch EFJ 124 23ch Cobra 138XLR New: President Washington President George EU President McKinley EU

I like mine, and so does a local fella I talk to. I use it with the Digi-Mike and he's given me feedback while switching between the President, FT-710, FT-891, and Kenwood 2000. He can hear me best when I'm on the President.

It's one of my favorite handhelds.

1968 (age 12). I started out talking to a friend of mine when I lived in Groton CT. His house was behind ours and set up our analog system (2 coffee cans and a whole bunch of string). We moved to Enfield CT the next year (1967) and my dad bought a simple shortwave radio kit (nothing big, maybe 2...

Did you do the factory reset? It's on that list, but I can think of a couple times I knew I had to do it and slipped my mind, and/or is it a US model?

That's a tough question, especially when I got into radio in the 60s. Favorite CB: E.F. Johnson Messenger 124 & Midland 13-880b. I liked the design of the radio, inside and out. It was a smart looking rig and had excellent adjacent channel rejection. I used the E.F. Johnson factory desk mic...

They put new labels in the bag with the fan kit to replace the original ones on the covers.

Greetings! A friend of mine, who lives on the other side of town about a 50 mile trip, one way, from my QTH sent me 2 very short audio/video clips from a noise that he was picking up on 10m (28.368)? He gets it daily, but not early in the morning or late in the evening. As he goes from...

It's easy to get off the beaten path with the II (If you mean the EU version). I put something similar in the car and the McKinley II EU in the closet.

Ahhh...just one more thing...Which episode was it?

Well, there's old school and really old school. In the later category, there's the Kenwood TS-520, 520s, 530s, 820, 820s, and 830. All solid-state except for the finals, which are tube. For someone just getting into the hobby, I'd only consider the ones with a built-in freq. display, like the...