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Has anyone figured a good mod to put mosfet in 148’s as drive and final just for fun I know u can still get the bipolar but just wondered for the old 5 pin mic jack radios
Also ordered a match set of 1446 for a box I picked up looks like it’s a palomar 400 got it for $50 after I got it home I popped the lid off to check out and there was only 2 pills in it lol so I’ll be needing help I’d say on the biasing of that one I’ll post a pic of it
10-4 will do I ordered a match set of HG1969 finals for it and will let ya know how it goes seems awful cheap to me
I went to rf parts to check on the finals and they r out of stock now for the 1969’s
I’ve been buying the 1969’s-2166 from rf parts and still can but I’m trying to convert it now to fets. One day the originals will be gone or out of the average workin mans price range so I’m just trying to get it figured out now while it’s down. Also the older men we talk to and I work on their...
hello all I have a DeltaForce that I loaned out to a friend while I was fixing his radio and his high swr and long winded transmissions blew my 1969 finals out and I was wanting to go ahead and convert it to itf520 mosfets since I have 20 of them ready to use. Could anyone help me to complete...
I’m trying to learn how to work on these radios for our locals here to keep my dad and locals enjoying there hobby and it’s now pulled me into enjoying workin on them and helping out most of them don’t need real complicated repairs and such but there’s been a few head scratchers so far. This...
Ok thank ya tallman for the reply
Yea I’m not after the extra gain just wanted to go ahead and convert it to get due to price and availability of the old originals. I’ve converted my cobra 2000 to a fet just in the final section only and had to turn it down after burning the first 520 up but...
Hello I have a magnum delta force with both 2sc1969 finals blown and was asking if anyone has ever put irf520’s in this radio I have several of them and would like to go ahead and convert this radio to them driver and finals rather than spend the$ on real 1969-2166 from rf parts
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