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Hello, I am looking at a 2009 year Ameritron Al-500M amplifier for purchase, and wondering if they installed the Toshiba transistors in these years? thanks Greg

I’ve heard these are pretty popular in HOA neighborhoods. Are these antennas any good on HF bands? Would they be worth choosing over an Omni or a beam? Any good talking the skip?

Putting a 2000 ranger extended cab back together after a collision, and looking at adding a radio to this rig. Planning my antenna instal and thinking about a center of the cab, fold down style mount. Sounds like a good answer for low hanging parking garages, car washes and trees. Anybody have...

Anybody else having troubles updating there new radio to the 1.4. Version? Just received my radio Thursday and have been trying to update. Following all formatting instructions on two new SD cards, and watching the YouTube videos, my radio keeps displaying “ no file “ on the screen, when I go to...

I’ve been running overhead coax RG312 cable from my shop to where I have my Antenna mounted on my shed, 20’ away. To try to quiet my receive down from a noisy city environment, I started digging through the garden and found some abandoned 2” PCV irrigation pipe that I can feed through for alot...

Looking to purchase a tuner for a dipole, also my cb antenna. Will these Palstar tuners work good for 11 meter also? Thanks.

I installed a Penetrator antenna in the back corner of my lot in mid summer.Painted it como green, and have lots of fir tree and maple trees behind, that really breaks up the outline. I ordered the AARL handbook, and have been studying for the Technitions license. I own a couple 10/12 meter...

Anybody use these or have recommendations on a quality product? I’m using 1” galvanized water pipe 28’, for supporting my SPT-500 antenna. Willing to try something different to quiet down my receive. This was mentioned in a previous post, didn’t want to derail. Thanks.

Checking out a new to me, Uniden Grant XL radio this evening, and plugged in a microphone that I use all the time with the Cobra 148 GTL, and get a nasty back squeal through the mic. Doing a search for mic wireing , I do not see any difference? Anything change between Malaysia and Philippine...

I believed that my station suffered from this noise. I have about 60' running from the antenna to where it inters the shop, 30' of which is air born. I ran the test, disconnecting coax screw fitting, at the receiver, with just the center conductor making contact. Test result shows a full dB...

Looking at one of these Variable power switches for a Cobra 148 GTL Malaysia. Anyone have any experience with one of these, or is there a better choice? Thanks, Greg.

Didn’t want to hijack The Ground plane vs metal mast thread. I live in a area with some major high voltage lines running down the street in front of my house. I have grounded everything That Justme suggested in this thread. I would like to try the RF chokes, any suggestions on chokes that folks...

Purchased from a EBay seller, 1989 Philippines model. Has variable power on the RF gain adjustment, from 1/2 watt to 7 watts. Much rather this feature be mounted somewhere else, miss having adjustable gain. This radio seems to have very, very good receive. I was getting very good, clear, audio...

Bought off Ebay a few weeks back, works excellent, with lots of power. Making DX contacts and getting great reports. Can anyone that owns one, or works on these, tell me if the little amp that is installed on the inside cover, had a cover installed by the factory? This one does not. Thanks.