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Yes it clearly states max 120 drive......
I would stay with @bob85 drive suggestions and output.
RM has the ability to build very good HF amps, but they recognize what sells in the US 11 meter market.
73
Jeff
It's been dead during the day but I hear the Pacific in the evening.
Last night I could hear Strawberry on the big island, but I could not make it back to him, then he faded out and someone from the Philippines was in there.
This morning I can hear South America on channel 5 but everything else...
The scope is at most crude and configured poorly unfortunately.
That feature could have been much better with a programming tweak but.....
It's old by today's standards but still serves me well, it got me a contact in South Korea last summer on a homemade dipole about 10' off the ground on the...
My 897 is starting to show signs of the fault now after years of dragging it around to camping sites.
It's held up for a long time and seen some abuse, it was out on a bench one spring at Bass Lake California and we had a afternoon thunderstorm roll through.
I literally had to pour water out of...
When you put it in tx does the relay pull in?
Or does it pull in when you key the radio?
I don't remember, does that one have a preamp?
Is it new to you?
I bought a skyhook amp one time and discovered that the standby switch was actually a tx/rx switch.
Previous owner bypassed the key circuit...
I will be following this, I have a few friends who run old radios on the weekly Old Tube Radio Network that try to keep them alive, this may keep a few more on the air.
Thank you Chris.
73
Jeff
That looks like a totally cheap fake.
I mean really it sure looks like they wrapped that fiber around the blank to make it look like there's a actual wire in a real antenna....
Is there any brand markings on it?
Man that's bad
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Jeff
Jezz ....
I would make a claim and see if they can mail another one with no return needed.
You know I have seen a lot of overseas retail people shipping stuff like that.
A friend got a AT quad 6 pro off the web and they stuffed the radio in a bag and sent it in the factory box.
No packaging no...
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