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Friend of mine told me a story back from the 80's when he ripped an antenna off a guy's house with a tire iron and a length of rope tied to the bumper of his 66 olds dynamic 88. Drug the thing down the road, and ended up sticking it in the muck of a local lake. Happened in NJ. As a bonus, the...

Are these still a thing?

Since there's no data jack, you'll have to go off the mic plug. Looks like there's no RX audio on the mic plug, so you'll have to go thru the speaker jack in the back. I suppose you could test the two "NC" pins to see if there is actually RX audio on one of them. Guessing it won't be the...

Walmart is most likely grandfathered into the old "color dot" frequencies, which two of them became MURS. They can continue to use them, but they now have to accept all interference, including interference that may cause undesirable operation. ;) I can neither confirm nor deny that calling...

Info on this HT seems to be almost unobtainium. Anyone have info for the modulation and power adjustments on this? It's not the same as its older cousin, the TRC-216.

Any reason to not wire up a 3 prong grounded cord to it? Could use a standard IEC socket and then you can use any computer/monitor power cord. ...and add that AC/DC switch.

TRC-225 - Mod Limiter: D9 :)

Most everything is made in china now. Very few radios are made in Taiwan, Philippines, or Japan anymore. I saw that thread on EEVBlog, too. This is why I haven't pulled the trigger on it.

I don't have any ignition noise, which is nice. I do notice my class D (Audio) amp in the trunk does interfere with it. I think I need to upgrade my line level cables going from the head unit to the amp. Power is on the opposite side of the car from the coax/line level cables. But, I'm still...

So I was window shopping around scamazon, and ran across this bugger... Never heard of the brand, but for under $200, I wonder if it'll work well enough to work on some radios with. Found a review video... haven't watched the whole thing yet: Now back to the video...

Yea, looks like the server's down.

Has anyone besides me tried the Thomas FCC yet? Receive seems kinda noisy, and the filters don't seem to do a whole lot.

Here's the info from the Russian website, in PDF format, too. ETA: Removed duplicate pic from dock.

Captured this from the video:

So, after some buggering, I did find out how to get into the alignment menu, and figured out a couple of the options. Hold PTT + MODE + EMG, then power on the radio. Press the EMG then MODE buttons when you see the TS displayed. AL = AM Limiter (modulation) - Lower is more max modulation PL =...

Yea, new rig, who dis? :) So far, haven't been able to find it.

Use a multimeter (resistance/ohms) to verify that you have continuity between the mic element and the plug. If not, then check between the PTT and the plug, and the PTT and the mic element. As mentioned above, if it's an electret condenser mic element, they do require voltage to operate, your...

I'm glad there's no radio I need bad enough that I have to pay scalper's prices for.

Buddy of mine was working a rally race, and some of the local hams working it with him kept referring to his antenna as a "coal linear" antenna. XD

Has anyone noticed that the center pin of the BNC connector on the HATA antenna is thicker than it should be?