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Why not add FM as it's a legit mode here now.
I swear I get that familiar feeling that they have shipping containers full of stuff and just mix it up once and awhile then put together a radio and give it a new name.
Ranger can do better than this.
If they would step up and build something to...
I did this to the SS9900 @32 and I get excellent reports after trying several power mics.
It's not very wide banded but provides good mid range punch working dx.
I have one power mic, it's a Cherokee handheld power mic that does sound fairly good, fatter frequency response but like Shade tree...
The guys building them found that the gain was high enough to cause them to be unstable, relays latch on after unkey, squealing ect
Grounding out the bias stopped it and required less though that actually fixxing them.....
Adding some negative feedback and hooking the bias back up solved the...
Dennis, net control is in Fresno California most of the "local" stations are in the central San Joaquin valley but people check in via interwebs as well.
The net has been going on for several decades, every Saturday night at 8 Pacific channel 11 AM.
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Jeff
The Hi/Lo should switch bands on some later models once it has been converted that should give you 12 bands
Can you find a EPT number on the board?
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Jeff
Last time I did my Francis I used 240 grit cloth and some Rust-Oleum marine spar varnish, been holding up good for a couple years now.
I have a old a99 laying in the grass somewhere that has fuzzy glass rash growing on it that makes me cringe every time I look at it.
My fault, should have, long...
A lot of boards came out of Escondido and Southern California they were sold in bulk,
RF Parts was the center of the universe with Billy the king of the Motorola market.
I remember two guys that ran around SoCal selling radios, amps and parts to build them out of a old ambulance at one point...
That top one looks like a old BD built Gray, the bottom one Pride.
The whole thing was Billy bought messanger when Victor stopped building, and he got a big pile of partially built amps he and a couple family members were building amps, then they found billy over his bench no longer with the...
This mess.
This was one of the later ones that looked like a little kid wired them up.
When Billy Ward passed a bunch of this stuff showed up on flea bay.
The older ones didn't look like that, they were fairly neat but these ....
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Jeff
That looks like a old TnT amp same guys who made the Supermod with2x455s and the big knob on the front.
I would not doubt it was built that way.
Post picture inside is it a mess of yellow Teflon wire?
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Jeff
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