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@Leroy223 This is the thread I am referring to about the bias diode. (Thread bump for information) 73 Jeff

Take a look at this picture and note the radio mounted in the rack. Take a wild guess where this radio was installed. To be honest I was shocked when I spotted this image. Back later with the answer. 73 Jeff

The engineer that was designing radios for ranger retired some time back. I agree with you, it feels like they are rehashing the same things in different packages now. Ranger was the original clone master, copying uniden, then building the cpu controlled 2950 series radios. Nowadays they seem...

I guess they are saving some labor not installing the echo board, and why don't they just label it echo/delay instead of clarifier? I scratch my head at some of the things that ranger builds but people keep buying them. 73 Jeff

Next BMW files patent for new fasteners A patented head design that they "only" will have the tools to install/removed the fasteners. Then in the patent admit that it's to stop people from working on their cars. Quote: "So that we can restrict the group of people that can manipulate these...

There's a sattalite antenna that's built on the circular polarization made by M2 I think. A home brew quad cut for 2 meters is really not hard to build. We used to make the boom out of 2x2 wood and used dowels for spreaders, add some 14 gauge wire and feed it with a quarter wave of 75 ohm coax...

Merry Christmas To all 73 Jeff

Someone, can't remember who, asked about replacement covers for the push button switches on Texas Star amps. Random find if they are still looking. https://www.491builtamps.com/shop Texas Star parts, I have not done business with the vendor, just posting information. 73 Jeff

I fixed it. 73 Jeff

Ok I will look 73 Jeff

Are any members having problems with e mail notifications? Let us know here. Thank you 73 Jeff

We had a issue with notifications and did find that the emails got some how flagged as spam. It seemed to be fixed, are you still not getting notifications? 73 Jeff

Dan, have a look here https://www.worldwidedx.com/ims/ 73 Jeff

There's stuff that is missing from the mirror, and the forum had a ton of information that unfortunately was lost forever. Johns site, Panther Electronics was another early forum that had a ton of valuable information on it that also disappeared into the void. Both of these were extremely...

There was a single thread that was still accessible up until sometime in 2017 that you could still access if you had the thread bookmarked and had the cookie that you were logged in. The last notification I received from the cbtricks forum was 10/16/2017 when Nomad sent me a message, I don't...

You should be able to get there, don't forget the channel arrangement is slightly mixed up in the original 23 channel frequency assignment. Not only the alpha channels, there's is the mix up around channel 23 with the frequencies not in numerical order. 73 Jeff

Me, I still prefer bipolar transistors but most of them are gone, that's primarily why I have old stuff. There are guys building with switching mosfets and they seem to have a handle on them, there are now amps using them close to the KW range. Hg is about the only source for 12 volt stuff and...

The 1446 it is a good transistor, it's actually a VHF transistor that works very well at HF frequencies around 28 MHz. Rated at VHF frequencies for @70 watts it produces about 25% more at 28 MHz. In the past the MRF 492 I considered to be the top of the transistor pile before the Toshiba 2879...

Merry Christmas and Happy DX 73 Jeff

If I had to choose I would take the magnum amp. Better bias if it's one of the original gray magnum amps with the wrap around heat sink. 73 Jeff