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Can't say enough good things about my 36 Amp Megawatt supply. It's been running 24/7 for several years now, powering my radios and Palomar 200 amp. It was reasonably priced, generates no RFI, and has a nice quiet fan. Like the Energizer bunny it just keeps going and going and going and.........

Pretty good conditions again today, which makes two days in a row! It doesn't start until mid-day, but once it starts it keeps going until after dark. Still hearing Australia in there right now......... Had contacts today to Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, Hawaii, Arizona, Oregon and even...

:LOL::rolleyes: What a bunch of hooey!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A J-pole is just an end-fed, vertically polarized, half wave antenna, which has exactly 0db gain. That's 0dbd. No gain. Nada. If you stick a second half wave section on top of an existing j-pole, with a cancellation stub between them, then...

I've compared my daily driver Daiwa 501 to a Bird and they were very close. The Daiwa was a wee bit conservative in its reading on the 150 watt scale, but it is still very close to the Bird.

Short skip today with contacts to Montana and Alberta this morning. Skip died out by midday, but now I am hearing a little Florida and Alabama and some spanish stuff creeping in......

Hey Recon! As I remember it, the 5555+ was the first in the 5555 progression, and has a more traditional "CB" look. Then it became the 5555+N. It was later redesigned as the 5555N, which was upgraded as the 5555N2 (with the same appearance) and now there is the 5555N2 "short case" radio. The...

It's alive!! It turned out the radio was fine and the problem was the simplest of things......a wonky fuse holder in the power wire. I had been moving wiring around by the power supply earlier in the evening and probably pulled on it or something. I replaced the fuse holder and fuse and she's...

Thanks JJ.... I would almost feel better if I had actually been messing with it when it died; but to have it just blink out and die for no apparent reason while it's just sitting there receiving kinda burns me!

I upgraded the firmware in my 5555N2 the other day, and last night it abruptly died. It just suddenly turned off for no reason. I was able to power it off and back on and it came back to life. Then a few minutes later it went off again. This time it took more than 5 minutes before it would...

Upgraded to an 8.8 now. Sixth largest earthquake ever recorded. We are on inland waters here, so we are safe, but the entire outer coast of British Columbia is under a tsunami advisory. Waves are not expected to be more than a couple feet here, but California is expecting 5 to 6 feet in some...

You can easily do the patch with the software Pez provided! It really isn't rocket science.....just follow the instructions carefully and you'll be fine. It only takes a couple minutes of time to do it.

Conditions up here on the west coast of Canada have been hit and miss for the last month or two........still getting lots of daily short skip, usually in the 400 to 1200 mile range. It's very sporadic; hence the name "sporadic-E".....stations boom in for an hour or two, then everything goes...

LOL! Same here! One other thing I have just discovered is that with the addition of new menu items, the numbering of the items in the main menu is now different. I made up a list of the menu items with their new numbers and taped it into the instruction manual that came with the radio for...

I upgraded the firmware in my 5555N2 today and the process went flawlessly! I did have to do a reset from the main menu after I did the firmware upgrade. Values I had previously changed in the service menu remain in place. Love the upgrade.....especially the ability to dim the display. Now I...

Pez I have a question about the upgrade...... Do the existing service menu settings get wiped out in the upgrade? I have some related to AM dead-key, SSB power out etc. that I changed. Will I have to go back into the service menu after the upgrade and re-do those changed settings or do the...

Thanks a million Pez! Now to muster up my nerves and try this on my 5555Nii...

Might as well be a hatchet. That poor radio!

I sure would love to get my hands on it. I would love to have the ability to dim the overly bright orange display. It might be OK driving in a city at night, but out here in the boondocks where we have no streetlights it's way way way to bright for night driving............

I keep hearing about this firmware update for the 5555N2 "long". But where do I get it from? And how exactly does one install the update? Has anyone here actually done it?

After weeks of nothingness the band has really come alive here in the last couple days.. Lots of very short skip to Alberta, Saskatchewan, Oregon etc. Also Hawaii and Australia are back in the evening hours. I've got my vintage gear set up..... Cobra 148GTL side-mic, Turner CS-1 desk mic, A/B...