6 Meter Rig

[Jaymom]

Thanks Happy.

Harold

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Avoid the 5054DX if you plan on doing repeater work on 6 meter.

It has no CTCSS board, you could always buy a board and add to it, now the cost is going up.

Correct, and those boards are programmed via DIP switches and need to be reprogrammed each time you need to change the CTCSS tone.

 

[Happy_Hamer]

Check this out though

LCD Encoder [LCDENCODER] - $49.00 : Piexx Company, Computers & Electronics

If you are like me, you hate looking up dipswitch settings for your CTCSS tone encoder board. The design goal that motivated the LCD Encoder was to come up with a miniature, full feature CTCSS encoder that was inexpensive yet easy to use. The LCD Encoder is a small, .9 x 2.15 inches, easy to use, full-featured tone board that includes a LCD display indicating the operating tone! The PIEXX LCD Encoder will allow you to add CTCSS encode features to virtually any transceiver.
Features:
· Full 50 tone CTCSS Encoder.
· Small size, .9 x 2.15”
· Low power consumption
· Operates from 5-15VDC
· Large, Easy to Read LCD display.
· Easy to Operate
· Fully configurable Power Up State.

 

[KingCobra_CDX882]

Why not..

Pick up a 706 MKIIG...?..

Can be found reasonably since they are all used not anyways..
But then you will have HF through UHF ( minis 220 band )