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I ran mine (2510) mobile in the early 90s with a 1/4w whip on the bumper. Worked Africa and Europe on the way to work; AP on the way home. The occasional trip south put the vehicle in the right orientation to work LATAM. Never bothered to send the cards in but DXCC was like shooting fish in a...

I have the whole stack: HR-2510 HR-2600 Original Lincoln HTX-100 One of these days I'm going to fire up my CAD program, design a set of side plates to mount 1, 2, 3 or 4 of them then send the files off to a laser cutter for a set of each. We have "President's Day" on our local 10M net from...

I'll start: TS-130V (modified filter setup), TS-660. Kissing cousins in appearance. FT-726R w/ HF module - 15, 12, 10M FM/SSB/CW. IC-703+. I have a few others but 95+% of my QRP work is done with these. One of my 703s can be mounted on one of my motorcycles.

In this neck of the woods we have Ch32 (Akron), Ch14 (Wooster/Orrville and surrounding areas), Ch21 (Massillon vicinity) and a bunch from Mansfield/Bellevue who occasionally park of Ch19 and piss off the truckers. I've just described a roughly 50mi radius circle. No SSB to speak of except for...

I'd like to see that happen. Whether or not it'll gain traction in a given area is hugely dependent on the number of 11M-active folks in said area AND the number of those with FM-capable radios. Further reduce that by those who aren't interested in broadcast-quality audio but instead want the...

A Pro-810E is what ye seek if it must be Uniden.

Since we don't have a dedicated sub-forum for these topics, this thread can be a catch-all for questions, comments and whatnot. Mods, if it gets enough traction then please sticky it. I'll start: Hamclock is a neat little application which shows an active day/night gray line display overlaid...

A member on another forum built a tunable loop and put it on the inside of his truck's fiberglass cap. This worked well for 40M NVIS. I'm thinking about doing same. My truck has an 8ft bed and they make cargo racks which go atop the caps. They cover almost the entire thing. Put the tuning box...

I have one of those plus its little brother the 1200 (AM only). 1400 needs the AC power switch replaced. TM86 might attest that this setup is...fidgety. Also found a tighter filter for the 1200. I'll swap it in at some point and see how it performs compared to stock. Was one of my "grail" CB...

I'd like to see US hams get 4M (70.0-70.5MHz) but a 1MHz wide general service allocation in lower VHF would be neat. As others have mentioned, though, too many current Mil/LE/Utility users for this to get traction.

I did something slightly different: Found several R/S 19-1210 MURS mobiles and a bunch of Motorola Spirits. Put one of my scanners (Pro-2035 w/ OptoScan board, running Probe v7) to work looking at all the MURS frequencies and aggregating hits per channel, PL tones in use, etc. Based on that I...

I prefer the older analog stuff. Cubic Astros, KW TS-530/830/930S/940S, JRC of various stripes, Yaesu 102, 90x and 980, Ten Tecs ranging from the Corsair II through the Paragon II. The ONLY drawback with some of these is Inrad exiting the filter market for the most part. If you want to go back...

A few thoughts on SMT stuff: If you have to remove it, make sure you have the right tools. Chip Quik being one of them for boards you CANNOT afford to damage. Nomad's observation vis the SMT regulator and heat are spot-on. Expect to see more of this kind of thing. Sadly, it isn't limited to...

If it's a cemetery that has frequent visitors (and is still in use) I'd probably activate from a mobile rather than setting up an antenna on the grounds. Some facilities people and local LEO might get a little objectionable to anyone doing business there apart from paying respects to the...

5 year bump. I realize this is an older thread...but... I did a bit of reverse engineering of the PLL and Display/Logic Unit as used in both the TS-530S and TS-830 then set about devising a way to add another band to the radio's Aux band spot. This turned into an 8 page and counting thread on...

A bit late to this. NR6C also used to offer sprockets for the FT-90x series hybrids. I helped him prototype them and wrote up the procedure. My 901DM has a set of his sprockets installed. Alas, it seems he isn't making these any longer - or is he? I have a complete 2020 station and the...

I'll see these listed on the auction site here and there. In Consumer Electronics for $tupid prices then in Business and Industrial for less. You can also get them in gray and red. FRG-7 receiver used this type of switch. Let me see if I can find an manufacturer and part number series for you.

On both the rigs I have, power output can be varied with either the Mic Gain or Car Level controls. IIRC there's also an internal setting on the TS-660 for maximum carrier in AM and FM modes (can be set independently).

I have a bunch of JRC stuff. Three JST-135s (including an HP variant), five NRD-525s, three NRD-535Ds, three NRD-515s and an NSD-515 plus a RAY-152 (rebadged JSB-176) and accessories. The -HP and an NRD-525 are run as twins. I built a custom interface cable and run another -525 (w/ PLAM board)...

Soldering mic plugs and coax connectors is something of a rite of passage into the hobby. That said, I finally have room to set up ALL the gear I want. Not just a portion of my stash. Needless to say I'm soldering and crimping a lot of cables these days.