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You sure that wasn't a DX1600?

Yea that’s a nice meter. It’s possible the radio might have been clipped or over tuned. Sometimes that can splash into a watt meter and give erroneous readings.

Is your watt meter designed to read SWR in all modes? You normally only check SWR in AM or FM modes with just a carrier.

I don’t think I would agree that mosfets have proven to be more durable. Good radio techs and manufacturers have figured out how to make them work but over all they suck. I’ll take any radio that’s dual 1969’s or 2312’s over mosfets. Just ask some RCI n2 and n4 owners how many times they have...

The only thing you do to a Uniden Grant xl is give it a good alignment. If you really need to add extra channels and unlock the clarifier. It’s such a great stable low powered radio you just don’t mess with them. They match up great to about any 2 pill amp or a kl203. Clipping 131 will bring up...

Checked out his web site, very cool and looks like he does good work. I think his best bang for the buck would be a biased 4 pill base amp. Not a big fan of amps with a driver stage (1x4, 2x4, 2x6 and so on). With most of today’s radio’s being higher power a driver stage is not needed. Something...

SSB should never have a carrier, it’s all modulated wattage. Since it sounds great on AM either just run it on AM or like you said, send it back to be biased forSSB use. Great looking amp board and work. Interesting how he crammed those power supply’s in there, not sure what to think about that.

If it’s a class C amp with no SSB delay switch it would unusable on SSB right now. You will need class B or class AB for ssb use. With no delay switch on ssb the amp will click and chatter the whole time. Also at 40-45 watts peak input your over driving the piss out of it. The 2290’s are your...

Ok cool. Black face, blue face, 2 pill 4 pill ? I assume heat sink on the top, power switch to the Left, lmh power in middle, pre amp on the right?

Ok good catch. Sorry my delta has the pa on the adjustable mode knob. And in the pic below you can see they added the function to the RF power on the Omegaforce S45.

Check the third knob on the bottom from the left. The RB,S/RF,CAL,SWR,CW knob. See if it will push in or pull out to activate PA mode.

I'll have to get my Delta out and check later. I think PA mode is either a turn to click option on one of the front knobs or maybe it was a push in on the same knobs. I think some Delta's had this and some did not.

I was just looking at the ground bar on your wall. Kinda looks like a version of this below. I like what you did I just want to avoid a ground loop. https://www.alphadeltaradio.com/accessories/model-gbwm-ground-bus

After looking at your pic you might check this article out and compare fig 1 & 2 to your ground pipe deal on the wall. https://helpdesk.flexradio.com/hc/en-us/articles/204779159-Grounding-Systems-in-the-Ham-Shack-Paradigms-Facts-and-Fallacies

Just get a 2018 Extreme echo mic, done. This way the radio stays untouched.

Many years ago when RF Limited was still making the Magnum S3, S6,and S9 radio’s I think they were the first to use the 2030 mosfet. That is what they went to when the 2sc1969 and 2312 were dropped. I’m sure Sam had someone make them several thousand at a time for him. Not sure at this point...

My out building with all my radio stuff had a metal halide dawn to dusk light for years above the garage door. Recently it took a dump and I got the bright idea to upgrade to an led light, so I installed this light...

There are several older threads here on the forum. Here is one. https://www.worldwidedx.com/threads/kl-203-finals.36508/

Ok Greg now see how many here know what a Yooper and a Pastie are. Lol

I think that might be an 8 pill. Kinda like an old messenger amp. But damn don’t feed it with 240 ouch.