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There is nothing like building your own antennas and to have the bragging right to say so, I built my own ocf dipoles for 160 meters as well as one for 6 to 75/80 meters and if you get the lengths right they will not require a tuner for most of the bands, my worse swr is on 15 or 17 meters is...
If your a licensed ham, I'll tell you how I fixed mine not to backward swing, it's and easy fix and will get real good modulation on both am and ssb, but top secret to cb users.:bdh:
May not tell ya anyway unless you buy it.And your a licensed ham.
I recently purchased one of these jewels and found the same backward swing problem thinking my radio was junk and it is compared to some of these rigs, but affordable for me anyways I looked around and found this website and it was dead on for a fix for me, and with the mic gain set at 50% I...
Do you still have this radio and how did your outcome work for you?
I did a mic mod on mine and so far I have had great reports on AM as well as SideBand and keep mike gain at around 50%, so far so good.
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Thanks for the comeback, I just did this mod just replacing the R3 with a 2k, I don't know about AM yet, but sideband says I sound great, loud and clear.Mine is a China mic.
AM is where I need the improvement.Am thinking about going with a Heil mic, have you tried that yet.I have a ic 718
I can't speak for the Connex, but I can say that the 66v is a good solid AM/FM radio and I still have one from my truck driving days, that with a 250 fet will talk pretty good, it all depends on your antenna.
Yeah, that's poor range, My A-99 gets about 122 and beyond miles per foot barefoot, talked to 3 up in New York and one in Canada today barefoot about 15watts if that on sideband that's over 1600 miles to NY and over 2200 miles to Alberta Canada and my antenna is only at rooftop eve level.
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I also have an A-99 and my swr is about 1.3.1 on all 40 channels, the problem could be any patch coaxes and or switchboxes, if your using one, I have a switchbox that'll raise my swr to 2.5.1.
Another question is do you have a ground plane kit on your a-99, some people say that don't matter...
SuperDave, I am/was in the same position as you as I just got my Tech and I purchased a Yaesu 2900 2 meter and love it but am looking at getting a Yaesu FT 450D or something close to it already so I can use it after I hopefully pass the General either next week (I don't think I'm ready yet) or...
Wow, I reread this thread and I was way off on my thinking on this as I too have some interference at times and only on some channels but only at a s-3 with a little hum to it and it's not consistent. I contribute it to the light in my yard as maybe dirty electricity as it's not to far from the...
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