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Use the left side :-P Actually seriously, the receiver designs are different on each side with the left as I recall having a more selective design. I *think* the left was triple conversion with the right was dual?? Moleculo will chime in I'm sure. With different IF's, interference can affect...

I did an 857, it's not too bad, but borrow something with a very fine tip. The typical $15 iron isn't a good plan for doing it. It's removing maybe one pad and bridging pads at two other points ...check on mods.dk or similar, there are instructions around. To remove the one or two smd pads...

US models won't work with this, you need to do the hardware mod.

Find a club, find a club, find a club. Anyone thinking about becoming a ham or a new licensee. ARRLWeb: ARRL Home Page has a 'clubs' link up at the top somewhere, check it out. You'll likely have to ping a few of them to find one that is responsive though. Once you know people, they...

Just be sure you know how little range an HT has. Do your other HTs work, when this one doesn't? I live close enough to a repeater that I could shoot it with an arrow and 2m indoors will still be a bit noisy unless I'm on full 5W power. It's normal 'here' at least. Another 440 system that is...

Ohhh weird omission with all the other things they put in it. I just bought an FT-8800R as I realized I had all the gear to do APRS 'my way' anyway and wouldn't get the benefit of the bells and whistles of the FTM-350 or a TMD-710...really nice radio, been around for a long time too. The...

The big Astron switcher ++ worth the money.

The FT-2000 is a world more advanced than the 950SDX is...just be ready to RTFM to get the best results. Lots of the FT-2000 settings are far from optimal out of the box, but take the time to set one up and they are a remarkable radio. The AM advice is spot on. You should really monitor...

If this is with regard to 440..it is so very line of sight dependent, that most people cannot hear you if anything at all is between you. If you have a rise between you, it will block the signal. It doesn't follow terrain well. As far as chattering among a group with 440 simplex, the...

Oooh it does do that eh, missed that looking through the manual. Cool.

The funniest part of it all is if you go look it up, it doesn't even explain what it is or what it does.

Equipment is a lot more dear in price over there. That's why a lot of used US amateur gear gets snapped up on ebay at what we see as too high a price by UK/EU/AU buyers. Look at the new pricing in the UK vs US prices from amateur dealers, or AU for that matter...very high compared to here.

If you wire in parallel it will work with either the mic PTT or whatever momentary SPST normally open switch you jack into that adapter. I have the switch to a pinball flipper drilled through my desk, wired in parallel with a Heil foot switch so I can use either one of them to key any of the...

Nobody will care if you are on simplex talking amongst yourselves. I spend hours at a time on 2m simplex from home and have a 30mile or so reach on 25W doing it. That's what radio is for...talking. If you want to curse and menace people and intentionally interfere...you will have trouble...

Better improvement than that ground plane thing would be to simply punch a hole and put a sturdy mount on. I ran a Wilson 1000 mag mount for a long time and finally just punched a hole for the roof mount one....it worked better. When you get rid of the car, just pop a rain cap on the antenna...

I was going to say that in the Mojave, they have repeaters on 7k foot peaks all around in Vegas area alone that would likely permit handheld coverage quite nicely on 2m for vast distances. I seem to recall an RF only link system that went from NV to MT from various high peaks and that may have...

With USB vs serial some of the reasons 1) USB requires a specific driver depending on the USB chipset they use. Some of these drivers _do_not_ work properly when you have multiples of the same driver running at once. No workaround, pure bus conflicts with them. FTDI seems the best at working...

Do any of the APRS rigs have cell phone style keypad entry of alpha characters for messaging yet? From poking around it all seems they need dial selection and scrolling column by column for it. Would be a lot more useful if you could T9 or keypad style, type messages. I bet it is some sort of...

From a small sampling a local friend has done on V/U gear, Yaesu seems to be the more consistent of being on spec out of the box. The Kenwood and Icom radios he's had on the bench tend to be farther off....generally too low deviation. They work, but they sound a heck of a lot better after...

If you bench it, I'll be curious how far out of whack it was out of the box