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Either you got lucky or I was unlucky. I bought an Iota supply as it was highly recommended by someone I know. Big mistake...... it generated massive RFI all across the HF spectrum and above making it useless for what I needed it for. I sent it back and bought a Megawatt. I have no regrets...

That's what I had here when I left for work this morning, and that's what I had when I got home later...... disappointing after the last three days!

When new my Megawatt 36 Amp was totally RF quiet down to about 2 MHz. It got really noisy down in the AM broadcast band. I put a cheap line filter on the AC input and mounted the filter and the supply in a small metal case with a grounded plug. Now I have zero RFI anywhere from 0.5 to 30 MHz.

As my long departed Dad would have said.... "Do it properly or not at all" The band has plenty of off frequency radios already; "sort of" isn't good enough. Find a qualified tech and have that radio aligned properly. That 457 is a fantastic radio by the way! I have three dead ones here that...

Totally dead here today as well....... Last three days were great; I was hoping it would keep going!

For home use, the Daiwa meters work just fine. As I said upthread, I have compared my Daiwa to a Bird and they read, for all intents and purposes, the same. No point in spending big money on a Bird meter when the Daiwa will give you the same information for much much less! I've had several...

Great conditions here the last few days, and yesterday was spectacular. Almost as good as last spring! Had skip from all over all day long and well into the evening. it finally died down around 11pm last night. Talked to every state in the western USA plus all western Canadian provinces and...

Can't say enough good things about my 36 Amp Megawatt supply. It's been running 24/7 for several years now, powering my radios and Palomar 200 amp. It was reasonably priced, generates no RFI, and has a nice quiet fan. Like the Energizer bunny it just keeps going and going and going and.........

Pretty good conditions again today, which makes two days in a row! It doesn't start until mid-day, but once it starts it keeps going until after dark. Still hearing Australia in there right now......... Had contacts today to Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, Hawaii, Arizona, Oregon and even...

:LOL::rolleyes: What a bunch of hooey!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A J-pole is just an end-fed, vertically polarized, half wave antenna, which has exactly 0db gain. That's 0dbd. No gain. Nada. If you stick a second half wave section on top of an existing j-pole, with a cancellation stub between them, then...

I've compared my daily driver Daiwa 501 to a Bird and they were very close. The Daiwa was a wee bit conservative in its reading on the 150 watt scale, but it is still very close to the Bird.

Short skip today with contacts to Montana and Alberta this morning. Skip died out by midday, but now I am hearing a little Florida and Alabama and some spanish stuff creeping in......

Hey Recon! As I remember it, the 5555+ was the first in the 5555 progression, and has a more traditional "CB" look. Then it became the 5555+N. It was later redesigned as the 5555N, which was upgraded as the 5555N2 (with the same appearance) and now there is the 5555N2 "short case" radio. The...

It's alive!! It turned out the radio was fine and the problem was the simplest of things......a wonky fuse holder in the power wire. I had been moving wiring around by the power supply earlier in the evening and probably pulled on it or something. I replaced the fuse holder and fuse and she's...

Thanks JJ.... I would almost feel better if I had actually been messing with it when it died; but to have it just blink out and die for no apparent reason while it's just sitting there receiving kinda burns me!

I upgraded the firmware in my 5555N2 the other day, and last night it abruptly died. It just suddenly turned off for no reason. I was able to power it off and back on and it came back to life. Then a few minutes later it went off again. This time it took more than 5 minutes before it would...

Upgraded to an 8.8 now. Sixth largest earthquake ever recorded. We are on inland waters here, so we are safe, but the entire outer coast of British Columbia is under a tsunami advisory. Waves are not expected to be more than a couple feet here, but California is expecting 5 to 6 feet in some...

You can easily do the patch with the software Pez provided! It really isn't rocket science.....just follow the instructions carefully and you'll be fine. It only takes a couple minutes of time to do it.

Conditions up here on the west coast of Canada have been hit and miss for the last month or two........still getting lots of daily short skip, usually in the 400 to 1200 mile range. It's very sporadic; hence the name "sporadic-E".....stations boom in for an hour or two, then everything goes...

LOL! Same here! One other thing I have just discovered is that with the addition of new menu items, the numbering of the items in the main menu is now different. I made up a list of the menu items with their new numbers and taped it into the instruction manual that came with the radio for...