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I’m by no means a tech or expert, but from my personal experience I wouldn’t recommend doing the mmm high fi rx or any revive mod for that matter, it seriously screwed up the receive on upper and lower sideband on the radio I tried it on.

Well I started messing with the antenna, I probably trimmed 2 inches off the steel whip 1/4” at a time thinking I could get good swr from ch38 to the tech phone part of 10meters. This thing seems to have very narrow bandwidth. When I started out I had an swr of 1.6 on 40 and like 1.5 on 1. Now...

I mounted the president Maryland on a hood mount temporarily. It actually doesn’t work as bad as I thought it would. I’m able to talk to a guy about 20 miles away barefoot just sitting in my drive way. I don’t ever plan on running any power through it. I don’t even own an amplifier. If ten...

I thought everyone says the front mic made in china ones are terrible. I’ve never owned or used one. Me personally I don’t even like the made in Malaysia ones, the board is noticeably thinner than the philly or Taiwan made radios.

I’ve also had one for 7 or 8 years now. It’s still working.

I powered it on for the first time in who knows how long. Turned the clarifier to center slot, turned to channel 38 lsb and 30 seconds later I hear a guy that lives roughly 20 miles east of me. So I ask him if the thing works and he said yeah. I couldn’t hardly believe it, I expected the...

Creepy twilight zone voice on: paging doctor nomad, paging doctor nomad, lol

I picked up a Robyn sb505d for about 50 bucks, I can’t find much info on them. I figured it was about the same thing as a cobra 140gtl, it has a pc-385 board in like an old silver face McKinley, 140 gtl etc. This one has a crystal channel kit in it that I plan on removing. Has anyone ever seen...

$300 it has the box lol, every radio I’ve bought from goodwill I’ve had to fix before I could use it. The cobra 148 gtl had a bad diode that caused the power fuse in the power cord to blow as soon as you turned it on, the channel display on the trc-465 was completely burned out. I had to...

He can try something like a horizontal dipole and the noise should drop a couple of s units . At lest it does in my case.

I have lots of noise problems too, where I live. Look into a mfj 1026, they actually work, I own and use one everyday. The only good way to get rid of the noise is to move faraway from other people. My plan someday is to live on a dirt road where my closest neighbors will be like a mile away...

Figured it out

I take this to mean that, connect the antenna to the antenna spot on the tuner, then go from radio spot on tuner to the main antenna spot on the mfj 1026. Then go from radio spot on mfj 1026 to the connector on the back of the radio? I just don’t want to fry this thing because I don’t have the...

I really like R&L electronics, I have bought an antenna from them. I think they have fair prices, and I like the fact that they are a smaller company.

I Have an old galaxy dx959 that has a bipolar finals, it is actually pretty stable, but I leave it turned on for an hour before I try and talk on it. The clarifier is still unmodified on it. I’m hesitant to unlock the clarifier on it because I feel like it will turn it into a drift monster. I’ve...

I should have said galaxy radios, now that I think about it I did own a 2950 for a few months and it worked just fine.

Are you checking it right after you turn it on, like after it’s been sitting in a cold truck all night. I would bring it into the house and leave it turned on for 5 or six hours and check it again. If it’s still 300hz off I would try adjusting something to put it back on frequency. Every...

I saw that earlier today lol... I bet it still sells for $300.... I can’t even imagine what it looks like on the inside.

I agree, it’s hard to buy a used Hf rig for $300 ,unless your buying it in person at a ham fest or something. And even then it’s pretty slim pickings right at $300. But once you get into the $450 price range you can buy a good used Hf rig. About 4 years ago I bought locally a yaesu 757gxii...