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longberd, I fail to see where the OP asked any stupid questions of Mr. Redman??? It turned out his fears where justified in finding a lose nut and bolt inside that is a short waiting to happen. On top of that it did not work properly after making two round trips. If you think every time you...

Well any mic sounds like junk on an improperly "peaked and tweaked" radio. Plenty of radio's with stock mikes, 2018 Etreme's, D104M6B that sound like the guy has either swallowed his mic or has a mouth full of cotton. That is the first symptom of a disabled limiter which in trash circles = "Loud...

So is this radio basically the same as the Palomar SSB 500 outside of cosmetics? This is what I can tell you about mine. It has dual finals and it looks all factory. I used a flash light and they are both 2SC1969 finals, then too the left of the finals are two transistors I can not read...

I hate to say it but it is because of all the ignorant simpletons on the air waves. I would rather they give and IQ test to people then the current memories and spit back at ya test's the HAM's use. Bigots, Hater's and Agitators no matter how hard they work for a living or how deep their pockets...

Since I can not buy what I want I decided to go a different direction. I figured I could select the mic I want no matter if it is Broadcast or for Musical production. Then I could add signal processing and amplification to it in the base of the unit. Kind of like a D104 on Steroids. The amp...

Ok so it seems to me that their are now now good powered hand mics on the market at all. The Astatic line of powered hand mics are now junk compared to the Older D104M6B, the RF Unlimted has noise issues in it's one mic that is not a toy with echo and other nonsense and even base mics are now...

Old but still very relevant since these radios are still available from Galaxy. Truth be told you would have to give me a modern SSB CB or Galaxy beit type accepted or not. No radio that has SSB and drifts as badly as they do is acceptable in my book. It is like a combat rifle that does not go...

This is old post but people need to know if they use Google they can find the wiring and the mod that must be done. You have to attach a diode and resistor internally from a switched supply to one of the pins. It tells you which end cathode etc... attaches to what......It is a bit more involved...

Well just because the case matches up SOT 123 does not mean the leads are in the same orientation. That is the obvious. I have not had to do this but years ago when the MRF-455 price jumped sky high and such I looked into this. The fact that you are gettign 20watt's is a pretty good sign...

The Thin larger models where made by Hatadi in Japan and they also made some of the Pearce Simpson Super Panther models too.....The K40 SSB unit is a great unit if you want a good sounding radio with good audio and solid SSB performance. Power wise they nothing fancy. I always thought great...

What is meant by white noise on the modern 2950DX SMD boards??? I owned a first and second Gen RCI 2950 and never had white noise on mine? I aligned them every year though which was more a check then a true alignment as they did not get off much over a 12 month period. Is the white noise on...

Thanks for the photo. I am not dead or anything.....LOL I have 3 boys, am a single Dad and have also been looking for work. So I have been too busy to work on this stuff. Well technically I have the time but not the money and after looking for work in real life and on the internet my appetite...

It is not a gimic it is in-rush limiting device. You normally build it as a separate card and install it in the amplifier. This is designed for those that are not up to buying a card installing the components themselves and then putting inside their amplifier. In this case you would plug...

You know I do not recall exactly your talking 1992 for me. My sweet 16 never had any issues at all. The shop I was working at set it up for me. I know I had set for 1000watt's clean with or with out the compression on. I ran fans lots of fans on it in the trunk because this was in Ga.! The TS...

Yes, I know that was my point that until you get to trying to use class C for SSB for instance the amplifiers biasing is not the fidelity issue. I was using an extreme that I thought every body would know not to use as an extreme example of the only type of situation where the amp's biasing is...

I can see 20 watts on SSB still pushing it a bit but that depends on the tubes, the power supply the transformer voltage etc......So I can see it in some but I would not drive it past 12 on SSB myself I like a super clean sound with plenty of headroom and I like tubes to last. If I really...

Class room versus real world almost never agree. I will say this though the military in general is getting better and better all the time about getting the class room and the field to jive still not perfect but they are getting better. It is important to teach by the Book in some area like the...

3.5 watts should drive that driver just fine the driver then pumps out 30-60 watts from your 3.5 watt dead key plus any swing pushing the rest of the tubes to their rms limit with some spikes from the swing on AM. 10-12watts SSB will like wise be ideal. I am going to guess that at 20 watts dead...

Why would you need a band switch on a solid-state amplifier? The bandpass filter should roll off the freq. as you near the limits of the transistor. The band switch on a tube amp is on the input side not the output side. It does not matter if you have a band switch or not if a tube or transistor...

I can tell you with out knowing the guy at QST that he is a liberal. How can I tell you? Well he constantly ignores and deflects actual fact and hard science at ever turn. He looks for someone else to blame at ever corner for his own incompetence a scape goat. His personal feeling are more...