Search results

OP was last seen here seven years ago so I'm pretty sure he won't see this !

As B.T.Barnum of American Circus fame said "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public". There's a fool born every minute it seems, and when they grow up they all buy Ranger radios. There's no fixing stupid. I'm certain that Anytone is outselling them...

Qixiang is the company that makes Anytone. CRT, Radioddity, and Stryker pay to have the Anytone radios made with their own branding. The Stryker 955HPC+ is exactly the same inside as the Anytone 5555N2 it just has a different shell and those hideous blue LEDs. Edit to add: Looks like Super...

I would be amazed if the current Tram-Browning company has any connection at all to either the original Tram or Browning companies! Much more likely is that the Tram-Browning brand came up for sale and some overseas company, from China or Korea or wherever, is leveraging the reputation of the...

Do the continuity test again but this time from the mic to the circuit board ground, instead of the chassis. Some older radios have a "floating ground" so they could be run on a 12 volt negative-hot system if needed. Let me know what result you get.

Plug one of those mics in, take the back off, and use a multimeter to see if you have continuity between the mic cable ground braid and the chassis of the radio. If you have no continuity or any resistance above a couple ohms, then you have a mic ground issue. Squeals on transmit are almost...

Does that radio use a relay? It almost sounds like a "sticky" relay, where it hangs briefly, usually due to pitted contacts. The squeal makes me wonder if someone's previously messed with the mic wiring in the radio. Squeal is almost always RF getting into the white audio wire, often due to...

I've never had a Facebook account. Don't want one, don't need one, won't ever get one. Life is good......ahhhhhh.......

Never thought I'd see a 26 post thread come out of loose cable! Especially when I nailed the problem in post #2 a mere 30 minutes after the original post......:rolleyes:

Which is why all but the cheapest CB and ham rigs have adjustable levels of DSP. On my Anytone 5555N2 for example, there are five levels.......1 is just enough DSP to take out some hiss, but not enough to distort voice. At about level 3 you start to get that "underwater" effect you are talking...

I heard him but couldn't work him. But who was the second station in 242 division? About 20 minutes after your contact I heard a 242PA....... call twice down in the mud on 555....couldn't make out the numbers. It was kind of there and gone. Pretty wild hearing two stations from there in one...

Great DX day today. New England states all sounded like they were locals this morning. Crazy strong signals and I talked all over the place.....bases, mobiles, and even a marine mobile in Chesapeake Bay. Lots of Midwest and Eastern Seaboard later on. Heard 898 Doffo in the pileups a few...

I bet he's out of town somewhere. I think a lot of operators just give the closest location that somebody might have heard of when calling DX, which might be a large city 100 miles away. I often hear people say Dallas, or Chicago, or Detroit or whatever but once you get talking you find out...

BayouRadioAmplifier.. What a great story! Thanks for that! It was a whole different world back then........... I remember as an 11 or 12 year old hunching over my shortwave radio with headphones clamped to my head listening to the merchant marine guys working CW..... Their sending speed...

Yes, there were a few guys doing it right and building proper amps back in the day and some even into recent years. Unfortunately those high quality amps make up only a tiny percentage of all the CB amps out there. For every Magnum or high-end Cobra there are a thousand P.O.S. amps with no...

I've talked to one of your neighbors a couple times lately! Unit 68 Amarillo.... also heard another Amarillo station yesterday. Hope to catch you soon! I'm usually on either 36LSB, 26805FM, or the triple nickle.

The vast majority of "CB" amps are total garbage, including Texas Star. Like someone else said earlier, it's probably a better plan to just buy a proper ham amp. I run an old Palomar TX200 pill amp built in 1975, but I modified it heavily to make it work properly and cleanly. I rebuilt the...

Yep. One or more of the pills has shorted internally. Had a few go that way over the years....... It likely failed when the cap went. Either the cap failing caused a pill to blow, or much more likely the pill failure caused the cap to blow. What radio were you using to drive the amp? What...

That SWR between the radio and amp is much to high for sure. It should be below 2. I run a Palomar TX200 and the input SWR is 1.1 There are some amp experts on here and hopefully one of them will chime in with an idea of what the issue could be. You definately want to make sure all...

That mobile you were on was cutting through the chaos really well at times! Great to talk to you....hopefully there will be less QRM next time LOL!