Ok, I have seen that doing this mod is good. I see that I would use a 100 ohm resistor and a 1n1004 diode but where do they go in a Galaxy DX959.
Correction on the diode, 1N4001. Never mind I found it.
The audio on the 959 is pretty good to start with, I wouldn't see any reason to do a npc mod.[/QUOTE
agee with ya very much. and i doubt any average joe hasd all
the proper equiment to even attempt tring it. btw ones ive heard
with it done are overmodulated on am .and even worse on ssb to the
point they were almost unusable
btw ones ive heard
with it done are overmodulated on am .and even worse on ssb to the
point they were almost unusable
I am only replying to this statement, certainly not arguing against it, but it seems to me most over-modulation issues such as this one are easily remedied by turning down the mic gain. When this is done it undoubtedly indicates it wasn't an issue with the mod, but with the ineptitude of the operator.
I have done this mod on at least three radios with no idea it was the NPC-RC mod. In every case I achieved the goal of enhancing the performance of the radio, and in every case I sacrificed no perceivable quality in performance. I did not have a scope to work with, and the resource from which I got the mod information never indicated I needed one. Perhaps I would have done well to have had one. Likely, I would never have attempted it without the high end tools suggested. Once the parts were in place I simply tuned for best power and froward on the operating band. Then I set low power at 1 watt, and high at 6 watts on the 88's and 959 I did this on. The next step was to ask someone I trusted to give me an answer regarding the quality of my audio as opposed to only the loudness of the same to set my mic gain, and I was on the air with great performance and great sound on both AM and SSB.
If I had known I was doing the greatly debated NPC-RC mod I may have hesitated to use it. Then I would have seen it was so simple I would have gotten beyond the hesitant moment and done it anyway, if this is really the NPC-RC mod.
My only question here is whether this simple 1N4001 diode and resistor change is really what all the talk has been about? If so, at least the changes are much more reliably able to be documented for performance improvement than buying the latest and greatest in antennas.
2¢ from Homer, but then again, I really don't know anything about NPC-RC mods :sad: