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Nailed another new country! 131AT/0 from Guyana on the northeast coast of South America. 27.610 USB. 5/9 copy. Huge signals from all over South America this afternoon........

Hit and miss out here on the west coast. Conditions have been excellent in the late afternoon/early evening for a couple hours, but kinda ho-hum the rest of the day. Still making lots of contacts though, mostly on 36 LSB and 26805 FM.

Finally made contact with Vietnam! 242TW001 on 27.580USB. Just barely made the trip though......bad QRM on both sides. I figured I had a good chance after DX Man worked the same guy a few nights back. 150 watts and a homemade horizontal delta loop. Heard everything from Alaska to Australia...

Ouch! Stuff like that is why I am very happy on 11 meters and have zero interest in getting my ham ticket. It's not the ham hobby, it's some of the people in it that are the big turn off for me.......especially the self appointed "band police" and the chest thumping "ancient elmers". It's...

Thanks for the correction Nomad!

Totally agree. Back over 25 years ago I had one and while it had a couple of quirks it was overall a great radio. After a time I decided to sell it and upgrade to a 2970. Oooof...... That 2970 was the biggest turd ever made. Within a couple months of me owning it the problems started and...

OP was last seen here seven years ago so I'm pretty sure he won't see this !

As B.T.Barnum of American Circus fame said "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public". There's a fool born every minute it seems, and when they grow up they all buy Ranger radios. There's no fixing stupid. I'm certain that Anytone is outselling them...

Qixiang is the company that makes Anytone. CRT, Radioddity, and Stryker pay to have the Anytone radios made with their own branding. The Stryker 955HPC+ is exactly the same inside as the Anytone 5555N2 it just has a different shell and those hideous blue LEDs. Edit to add: Looks like Super...

I would be amazed if the current Tram-Browning company has any connection at all to either the original Tram or Browning companies! Much more likely is that the Tram-Browning brand came up for sale and some overseas company, from China or Korea or wherever, is leveraging the reputation of the...

Do the continuity test again but this time from the mic to the circuit board ground, instead of the chassis. Some older radios have a "floating ground" so they could be run on a 12 volt negative-hot system if needed. Let me know what result you get.

Plug one of those mics in, take the back off, and use a multimeter to see if you have continuity between the mic cable ground braid and the chassis of the radio. If you have no continuity or any resistance above a couple ohms, then you have a mic ground issue. Squeals on transmit are almost...

Does that radio use a relay? It almost sounds like a "sticky" relay, where it hangs briefly, usually due to pitted contacts. The squeal makes me wonder if someone's previously messed with the mic wiring in the radio. Squeal is almost always RF getting into the white audio wire, often due to...

I've never had a Facebook account. Don't want one, don't need one, won't ever get one. Life is good......ahhhhhh.......

Never thought I'd see a 26 post thread come out of loose cable! Especially when I nailed the problem in post #2 a mere 30 minutes after the original post......:rolleyes:

Which is why all but the cheapest CB and ham rigs have adjustable levels of DSP. On my Anytone 5555N2 for example, there are five levels.......1 is just enough DSP to take out some hiss, but not enough to distort voice. At about level 3 you start to get that "underwater" effect you are talking...

I heard him but couldn't work him. But who was the second station in 242 division? About 20 minutes after your contact I heard a 242PA....... call twice down in the mud on 555....couldn't make out the numbers. It was kind of there and gone. Pretty wild hearing two stations from there in one...

Great DX day today. New England states all sounded like they were locals this morning. Crazy strong signals and I talked all over the place.....bases, mobiles, and even a marine mobile in Chesapeake Bay. Lots of Midwest and Eastern Seaboard later on. Heard 898 Doffo in the pileups a few...

I bet he's out of town somewhere. I think a lot of operators just give the closest location that somebody might have heard of when calling DX, which might be a large city 100 miles away. I often hear people say Dallas, or Chicago, or Detroit or whatever but once you get talking you find out...