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I use mine every day on 10M. Like it a lot. The only drawback is lack of 100Hz resolution like the 2510, but one can get around that. Superb on SSB. Replaced the stock mic with an Icom HM-36, which gives more audio. I now have to run the mic gain at the 3 o'clock position maximum or I will...

Tubes and CW. CW? Well, the simplest radio transmitters are CW transmitters; easy to build. Novice hams, without much experience or knowledge can easily build a CW rig, and that was one of the rationals for knowing CW for your first license, way back when. Whip up a CW rig from junk-box...

Oh boy :rolleyes: :headbang That's what the freeband is for. Well and cogently said. Another aspect is that the ITU considers amateur radio a service. This service is designed to provide a trained cadre of technically competent citizens qualified in the art and science of radio. This...

Glitchy Magnums... I own an OmegaForce S45HP. This radio can be glitchy sometimes. When it does glitch, I simply reset it. I believe the uP in both the 257HP and the S45HP are the same. The radio likes to be connected to a power supply all the time. In the mobile, make sure you're...

Some of the worst crusty anti-CB bigots were CB'ers themselves way back when. They still hold on to that anti-CB prejudice that was prevalent back in the 70's (which is typically when they got their tickets). Was I an anti-CB bigot in the '70's? Damn right I was, even while I operated...

Not that your intemperate and pointless rant warrants a response either, but here it is.. I'm 60 years old, will be 61 in February. Been involved radio since 1964. Got my ticket in 1969, and yes, played with CB way back in '66. I'm Canadian, so Viet Nam was your problem, not mine...

Anyway... most freebanders know better than to try and talk on 10M. In any case, they won't talk to anyone! A few weeks ago, I heard one misplaced unlicensed person trying to call a DX station on 10! Finally the DX station responded, "Whiskey-Charlie 556, you better go back to the...

[...] Wow. I'm impressed. We have here a real renegade, a true anarchist! An iconoclast! The bad hams are pompous and mean! "Know-it-alls"! Yeah... I've heard it all before. You're not the first CB renegade I've met. Boring.:rolleyes: Aw, give me a break, what are you, 16 years...

Couldn't agree more! :thumbup1:

Age here 60+ (will be 61 in February). I too have been playing with radios since I was about 14 myself. Hmmm... I would agree with the first part of your statement. OTOH I don't know what miscreant hams you hang out with, or listen to. (Stop listening to the a-holes on the high end of...

Here we go!!! :rolleyes: Since you're not a ham, how would you know? Certainly not first-hand info, is it? Or are you just swapping gossip, hear-say and myths with your fellow freeband buddies? Naw, even the freebanders don't believe that... too many ARE hams. Must the gossip at the local...

I just got an S9-175. I like it. Drifts? slightly, but I find the counter actually drifts more. I use if for general 10M use, as well as CB use. It's strictly for base operation. But then, I also possess a 2510, a 2600, a Superstar SS158EDX, a General Grant, an RCI-Ranger 69FFC2...

OK boys, here's the score. I have one, and have had it for a while. It is essentially sort of a Superstar SS158EDX on steroids. No echo. Built-in 150W+ amp. Easily does 50W plus carrier on AM (200W PEP). When properly modified, it will do 24.265 through 29.655 in 12 bands (6 HI, 6 LO)...

Very nice aparat!!

Just finished building my new Penetrator, and It's giving me weird readings on my MFJ-259. R=72, X=15 and VSWR is of course, 1.5. Can't get it lower than 72 ohms. This occurred at 27.4, 28.4 and at 28.8; no difference. Anyone have any ideas? Noticed that the dimensions are different...

Astron makes the RS-50M which is the metered version of your supply. No meter kits. You may have to find suitable meters elsewhere and build your own meter panel. For that, you will need a DC ammeter that reads up to 60A and a voltmeter that reads up to 15VDC. Realize that your RS-50...

The OmegaForce S45HP, the Magnum 257HP and some others use an integral uP that drives a frequency display directly. Those radios do not use a frequency counter; what you are looking at is a frequency display. Those radios that use a frequency display, use a slightly different technique to...

A couple of comments about your posting: Not surprising considering the design. Sort of a cross between an S45HP, and a Galaxy 95T2. It uses a uP, but still uses a separate PCB for the freq. counter, which will cause the counter to drift initially. As well, there are certain components in...

Finally! After much gnashing of teeth, and general post office idiocy, we finally received the package yesterday, Sept. 26. I suspect that Magnum is actually building these S9-175 from S9's, and simply adding the SX-175 power cabinet to them. I received my radio in a re-stickered SX-175 box...

CON1 : 10 Meter Only (28.000 - 29.699 MHz) *Default mode *All functions operate normally CON2 : 10 Meter & Expanded Mode *At turn on, the radio defaults to 10 Meter mode. *For information on Expanded mode operation, see CON3 CON3 : Expanded Mode Only (25.165 - 29.699 MHz) *In Expanded...