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  1. Uncle Ronnie 336

    RF24zx mosfet thread

    scored 10 off of ebay for $14 from a seller 6star claimed better RF than IRF520 so curiosity got the best of me the test bed radio is a taiwan cobra 29gtl so here are my findings so far: a homemade arrangement of EKL layout (470-1n4148 and 3.3k) and the first thing i noticed is low dead key...
  2. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Cobra 29 LX lower deadkey with 100 ohm resistor and no cap?

    the perfboard/adjustable dk is the only way i go about this on a transformer rig. it looks :::less worse::: on the scope i got than the standard r/c setup
  3. Uncle Ronnie 336

    COBRA 29 LTD AND LTD CLASSIC EXPO 100 KIT INFO

    the a and s kit have different crystal freqs.
  4. Uncle Ronnie 336

    realistic TRC 427/shottky/rx meter issue

    yeah, if something comes across my bench with the r/c version i'll automatically change it for a darlington or undo it completely
  5. Uncle Ronnie 336

    realistic TRC 427/shottky/rx meter issue

    yea, i prefer it adjustable, and every time ive seen the simple parallelled r/c the resistor heats up and the audio is just.....sloppy compared to the darlington based adjustable dk with the 100uf. i make the unit on perfboard and sometimes will pop a hole to mount the TIP120 right to the case...
  6. Uncle Ronnie 336

    realistic TRC 427/shottky/rx meter issue

    got a beautiful 427 on the bench, recap, npc, went well, so i did shott diodes in d7-8 but now the meter doesn't move on RX everything else works mint now. any suggestions on where to look? i am having trouble finding a schematic
  7. Uncle Ronnie 336

    cobra 140gtl NPC-rc mod?

    i haven't messed with the NPC mod yet but after long runs TXing, what i see on scope, and given that i'm driving 9530 mosfets, i have a nice 3<19W, slightly high fwd RMS wattage, nothing is off or raising alarms so i'll just leave well enough alone. I did change R104 to 18k, which is juuuussst...
  8. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Mosfet conversion for Cobra 29lx

    i wouldn't try that for multiple reasons. 1. they're kinda dumb 2. if you don't know your way around a schematic, you are basically risking bricking your radio.
  9. Uncle Ronnie 336

    cobra 19xs: no modulation

    got a cosmetically nice 19xs and the stock mic for it. no idea why it's not modulating. eyeballing a schematic and kinda at a loss as to why. radio's gonna have a home in a local jeep
  10. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Mosfet conversion for Cobra 29lx

    i normally get 25ish from an HG final. I modded/recapped a 21xlr which is now happily being used in a semi running the eastern seaboard, dimmer knob repurposed into the DK control, and it pushes 27w pep. limiter is intact but modded to have a bigger threshold. I'm curious what he used for a FET...
  11. Uncle Ronnie 336

    cobra 140gtl NPC-rc mod?

    the tip41....its still a to-220 device. i have on hand an NTE270 which is a to-3. IF i were to un-volt the final, my instincts say a bigger package NPN upstream from the driver-final would be better no?
  12. Uncle Ronnie 336

    cobra 140gtl NPC-rc mod?

    i have a 200mhz china scope. everything looks good there. the volted final takes a lot of heat from the regulator and everything runs cooler so im gonna stick with that, but i'll try the diff cap and resistor.
  13. Uncle Ronnie 336

    cobra 140gtl NPC-rc mod?

    comparing off the washington/142gtl method i saw on another forum with my own notes: 1. Remove TR32 [ACTUALLY DONT DO THAT. TRY CHANGING R104 to 22K TO OPEN UP THE THRESHOLD CLEANLY] 2. jumper r123 3. Add a 10 uF 25 or higher volt electrolytic cap to the following spots: Attach the positive...
  14. Uncle Ronnie 336

    cobra 140gtl NPC-rc mod?

    looking to drop the carrier down. for the amp. how is the best way to go about this? i see a couple of methods mainly in certain forums but unsure about which one is best
  15. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Uniden PC122, low AM modulation

    yeah, i never had one that was this restricted. usually can pull it back to about 2W and it screams
  16. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Uniden PC122, low AM modulation

    I wanna thank you again Andy. I just aquired yet another PC122 which was dead in the modj swing but what I am observing is a 5-6w PEP with the carrier at around 2-3w and it jumped up to 16 pep if i set the carrier pot at 8w which i know isn't something that can fly thermally speaking. much of...
  17. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Experiments

    that things gonna splatter wicked hard. no limiter and a class C amp
  18. Uncle Ronnie 336

    Cobra 28a recapped, low modulation.

    Also, in order to properly kick an amp, r134 is going to be the resistor I pull for the tap points for a tip120 NPC mod.