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This is how I fixed a Realistic TRC-449 in 2021. No RX/TX, but poking around the damn thing sprung to life. The cold solder joint was hard to see, but after adding a bit of solder to that area, its been great since.

Happy 2025 to ya'll. May it be another good year for our radios.

Now I can like without confirming too. :)

Same to you and the family. :) Here was a short recording before I tried my luck to call out to ya.

I had some trouble with a dirty channel selector on my Base 139 23 Channel. This made it where there was no receive/transmit. Maybe change the channel selector a bit a few times back and forth to see if something comes in.

Merry Christmas to all! :)

Now that would be a better thing to do. :)

Appreciate it. I did save some aluminum tubing from a bed I recently took out of the house. That may work out just fine. :)

Thank you. That clears up some of the confusion I had for probably many many years and never got to use 6m. I will have to make that dipole my Elmer always talked about to make on 6m. A rotatable dipole from some copper tubing and a plastic T connector lol. May he rest in peace. His callsign...

Mainly SSB, so looks like the chunk of 50.1 to 50.3 is the window for that. Unless I am seeing it wrong, then the calling frequency being 50.125 MHz. So it would be ok to use lets say 50.130, or would it be better to go to the all modes portion of 50.300 to 50.600?

I am 100% new to 6m... I just am confused on where to go since you get about 4 MHz of of the band, but thats a lot. Any tips or pointers on where to go or to monitor? And if I wanted to go QSY to a different frequency, where are some ideal spots?

If I wanted to browse this site, I would find a way to get it to connect with my old Gameboy... :) :P

141 Tennessee just now. :)

Just now got a hold of him!! Same person from the 1st video. 837 Alabama... :)

Still going. :) 1:24 AM CST.

Short video of the conditions on 37 LSB. Did get to talk to WR1217 on 37 LSB and 66 Blue Grass on 32 AM. Mother Nature was nice tonight.

Believe its an SMA connector.

Glad it worked for you. But after looking over the Retevis website, it just seems super generic like many are.. I just hope someone looks into the Retevis RT85 and does a mic mod for it like they did for the Baofeng UV-5R. I just don't like the idea of yelling into the mic.

Nice! It is in the works of getting something portable to go setup wherever we go. For now its just a Ten Tec Scout 555 but that is not as portable lol. Im sure something will come along, but your radio is a great one.

Welcome. Sad to hear about your good friend passing. It will always be tough and just like anything else, it takes time. Hope you do feel better as time goes on. Nice radio. I always liked the Grant radios. What Grant is yours? I know the first few looked the same in the front, but physically...