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ALSO ..... HERE in the US FM is illegal ...... All I have to go by is how it worked for me on a GRANT LT which I use as a receiver ..... Now I did get a bit fancy and installed a Channel Guard IF filter and remeasured the radio with no real change in how it worked EXCEPT it was about 3...

MY 2 Cents ...... With the very wide results that most of us get in the REAL world of radios IF it works for you have at it ..... I know what I GOT on MY radio but then again another radio may or may not have done much of anything. COPMMENT on the FT-100 .... Mine is about 10 years...

As you know there are many factors in receivers one is bandwidth here is a photo of my TS-2000 on CW you can see backgtound change ... this is why cw works so well .....

There is no doubt mixer noise and the noise of the following stages detract from the final noise floor however at 11 meters external noise maskes most of it anyway ...The mods I did tried to take up for the loss of signal captuer in a 3 foot " base " antenna and it worked just fine. This is...

The radio came right out of the box ........ NOW TRUE it was not tuned up at that time but I did the mod because I use it as a DX monitor and wanted a bit more gain because of the very small antenna . It is a otherwise STOCK radio 40 ch no ch mods ... I lissen to 38 lsb and use my 29.600 mhz...

INTERESTING ..... Radio here is a GRANT LT SIGNAL GEN IFR 1200 S using the SINAD jack hooked to speaker ( AM ) set for about 6DB S/N. The 2SC1674 was good to about .7UV about -110 DBM .... The 2SC2999 was good t9 about .4UV about -115DBM .... I DID NOT try the diodes however what you...

They ARE a nice radio only drawback is it does not cover 17 meters

REAL WORLD it DOES help on very weak signals my GRANT LT went from .7UV to .4 UV for 10 db S/N on a IFR-1200S .... but is it worth moding every set no it is not ....

Maybe I missed something but what are you going to use the antenna for OSCAR? And don't tell me you would tie up a TS 2000 to work some OSCAR .... ONLY KIDDING .... No joking My TS-2000 works very well when I have tried to hear one of the birds .... I run a 24 DB gain preamp on 2 meters .

Yep same here I have a legal CB for CB none of my ham radios is modded for CB. TO ME ...... Taking $800 all band radio even a IC-718 to use on CB is a bit of overkill but to each his own .....

many repeaters are open 29.620 out of new york is open

I'll have to scan mine but what you have is VERY GOOD !

That still does not detract from the fact for a tech class its a good radio.

RPT: Repeater Access Tone. Most repeaters require an 88.5 Hz tone burst to access. To activate the 88.5 Hz tone burst, press the FUNC control and then press the RPT button. RPT will appear on the LCD indicating that the tone burst will now automatically be transmitted whenever the PTT is...

Nice cards guys :thumbup:

Is it a good 10 meter radio YOU BET YA ! I have several HTX-10's that I have run since the mid 1990's worked the world on them They are a GOOD starter radios work well on SSB and even work well on FM SIMPLEX but not on repeaters since many of them require a tone NOW its not goiing to beat a...

Hummmmm ..... I bought a FT1900R for that kind of money I'm picky but still happy with it ....

This radio is a crystalplexer not a PLL And it covers 146-148 ONLY I have had mine more than 30 years it was used untill 2004 when In bought a ft-7800. Crystals are $20-$30 EACH you can buy a FT-1900r for $130 All set up with tone and easy to progtam to what you need The IC-230 STOCK again is a...

I have never seen it ......and what would 10 khz do for you ?

I answered your qusetion in another place on this forum I have 3 of them there are no good mods ...... A VERY WELL BUILT RADIO ...