• You can now help support WorldwideDX when you shop on Amazon at no additional cost to you! Simply follow this Shop on Amazon link first and a portion of any purchase is sent to WorldwideDX to help with site costs.
  • A Winner has been selected for the 2025 Radioddity Cyber Monday giveaway! Click Here to see who won!

Search results

  1. K

    Celebrate or not? Funky SWR reading

    I was thinking that as well Ill have to ask him The purpose of our test was to see what the radio was outputting for wattage But notice the SWR was high on 440
  2. K

    Celebrate or not? Funky SWR reading

    I know how to hook up the swr meter and read one i just dont own one. Which will hopefully change asap So let me ask this hich SWR can never be because of the radio itself? BEcause if so them im gonna celebrate That means it was just his feed line to swr meter But why only on 440?
  3. K

    Celebrate or not? Funky SWR reading

    It was a freind of mine We did it with a dummy load initially because he wasnt at my house and i dont have a meter we did it to see the output power of the radio we were never able to do a reading with the meter because we were not at my house and my antenna is at the house "Why...
  4. K

    Celebrate or not? Funky SWR reading

    the SWR test was done on a dummy load however the antenna is a bran new arrow dual band 2/70cm 18inch long just a 40$ HRO job
  5. K

    Celebrate or not? Funky SWR reading

    Hi guys So i scored at the swapmeat today or what i thought was a score. I got an old Icom IC3200A for 50$ Dual bander single receive Nice little unit Hooked it up and all seemed well Made a contact on 2 meters and everything seemed well. However a freind of mine stuck it on...
  6. K

    Yaesu FT-7800R Review

    Where are you guys paying $125 for them!! I almost paid 289 today that HRO but then decided to look at the web first? ANy thoughts?
  7. K

    Power Supply Help Please

    I am also curious what is ment by this?
  8. K

    New Guy here, slight issue with HT please help

    Sucess! lol Im not sure how but i finally got a 2 meter contact! Thanks for all the help to everyone that chimed in. It was most likley User error. Thanks again everyone 73 KB1UGX
  9. K

    New Guy here, slight issue with HT please help

    Hi guy Thank you for all the replys. Here is what i found. Im sure this is just user error. Seeing as im new to this. The offset is a -600 and it is infact 146.2 Thank you for the repeater help. I ofcourse understood the theory of them but still working out the kinks on how the...
  10. K

    New Guy here, slight issue with HT please help

    Hi The reason i choose simplex while programing the memories is because i am a bit fuzzy on how the repeaters work and off set. I understand one frequncy input and one is output Why do then almost all repeaters only have one frequncy given? I understand the standard offset is 600 on...
  11. K

    New Guy here, slight issue with HT please help

    Brandon thanks for the reply So what is the common denominator here and how does the 5x differ i wonder?
  12. K

    New Guy here, slight issue with HT please help

    Hello and greetings to all my fellow HAMS out there. I am very new to HAM radio, so new infact my license was just granted this past week and i found myself in the ULS database! Upon entry into this fantastic service and hobby i bought a Yaesu VX-7r Im sure many of you have many...