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I always set the radio about 3/4 and then started opening the mic a little at a time until I had proper levels...based on the meter with my eyes and then confirmed by people over the air. The reason for as little drive as needed from the mic is simply to not boost background noise. If you...

Hahahahah you had to go and tell them.

Just don't forget 10m FM is for Generals or above.

That's an easy fix, just bring your coax down to BNC and put an SMA to BNC adapter on the Icom. For stuff like that, I use the pigtails that use a small flexible whip of mini coax with SMA on one end and SO-239 on the other...keeps any strain off the portable's connector from rigid full sized...

The portables are not the best SWL rigs and certainly not with any portable antenna due to the wavelengths involved. I'm curious what other people will say. My past experience with much older wideband receiver portables is, they have great receive as a fixed frequency monitor, but make for...

Yeah it's all about the duty cycle. That and a lot of the parts to build an amp cleanly add up quickly so a clean lower power amp doesn't come cheap. After juggling it around for months, wanting 500W full duty cycle for SSB, I got a single 3-500ZG AL-80B used for $750. Bang for the buck was...

The Taylors from RF Parts have a good rep from anything I've heard. They match them well when you buy a matched set and they stand behind them if they do turn out to have a legitimate defect from anything I've seen. Great thing with the 3-500ZG, it can take a pounding. Very forgiving and why...

I don't have a link, it was in an email on their own list and on some contesting lists. A big gun contester was told he was 'wide' a few times and thought it was guys not used to 3k audio complaining 10k or so below where he was. The offset isn't all that far from the intended signal. It...

i would wait for the next gen design for either the 3000 or 5000. Recently it was disclosed that they put out a spurious image a bit down the band from the main signal. At 100W it's not much of an issue, but if you are running a kW+ it causes a horrendous amount of interference. This was...

With wire antennas, I think it's mostly laziness or just not knowing. I get a kick out of just how much money people do charge for them. With yagis, a lot of it is not knowing how, but in my case, i've looked around at what I have for metal supplier options and by the time i add up all the...

An opinion was given on a group of people. No names were used for a reason. it was all of you that associated names with the opinion I gave, not me. I still won't comment specific to people. I left the group as it were, not because of attacks on me, but because of attacks on my friends on...

With a signalink USB, just call them up and get the cable for your radio, it will save you a bunch of time and hassle...or make one of your own. It will go into the data mini-DIN plug on the back of the rig. You have to look in the manual to make your own as you will need to pin it out...

In mint condition, I might go $250. It would have to be pristine. They aren't a horrible rig, but they certainly aren't much better than just good. They were entry level 20yrs ago and technology has totally passed them by with the new entry level rigs like the FT-450 or the older IC-718. I...

If you have a couple bucks and only intend on running 100W, a wide range auto tuner feeding a loop would work pretty well for you. SGC-237, stuck in a Tupperware bin, tucked up under an eave as the tuner, then run wooden poles just a few feet off the roof at each corner and feed wire in a loop...

NSFW probably I hope I get swine flu.

I think his name is now Talib Islam

Ahh wireless mice, many of them are right at 27MHz...good call.

I'd put an analyzer on it first for sure...and I wouldn't bet on it. A dual-band 2m/440 antenna is easy to find and not a lot of money, I'd just buy one of them...they'll do fine for general scanner use anyway. I ran 2m/440 whips on my scanners long before I was a ham. That would be the...

yeah uplug the monitor and be sure it isn't the monitor first. Otherwise, sounds like the switching power supply in the PC. You can try replacing it with an up-line supply by Antec or any of the better companies. It's sort of hit or miss.

Tough one. The lifted one is certainly cool...but the mileage is horrible with a lift and tires like that as is the on-road handling. Take that for a decently long ride and think it over carefully before you decide to live with it. Also, you have to keep up with a lift kit. Check the...