Please take what you read there with a grain of salt.....as soon as someone describes the radio as a " hacked up HTX 10 /cb " the rest of the lions jump on the road kill wagon.
I wonder how many of the ones that talked the radio down has had one on the bench and tested the radio to see if it meets the reported "splatter box" discription?
= really love the coment about the TCXO....so all the rest of the rigs in the world that are not running one must be un fit for service as well.
ahhhhhh but it is a export ....no way the radio could be set up or operated properly.
I have been running a RCI 6900 F25 on 10 and 12 meters for a while now and I am sure if you go over there and ask the forum how well it works on ten meters they will tell you how it is garbage and that running the radio will be the end of ten meters as they know it.
Funny thing is while working the bands with it I get glowing audio reports and complements about how well the rig sounds.
You can take a 857D and change all the service menu settings then run it balls to the wall and wire a power mic to it and it will sound just as shitty and splatter just as bed as the "exports" can if operated improperly.
It is up to you as the operator of the radio to ensure the AMC/ALC of the radio is set up properly.
Not everyone can aford to go out and throw down $900 bucks on a new rig and if the radio is set up and run properly no one can tell the differance over the air.
I will keep running my ( OMG) export Radio on ten and twelve meters along with my ( OMG) cb junk Texas Star 500V amp. ( that meets spec because it was tested to ) and continue making many more awesome contacts on the bands for years to come
Any peice of equiptment can be abused and operated improperly on the bands....I do not care if it is buily by Yaesu or Ranger or Magnum.
I do get tired of guys that bash equiptment that they have never run....never tested and do not have a qlue about how well it works based on what they have been told on the Internet.
Just because some golden screwdriver jocky ripped the ALC out of one and runs it with the mic gain twised around 3 times is no way to judge how the radio will work if set up and operated properly.
These are probally the same guys that tune up there AL 80 on top of a pile up on ten meters because they are to stupid to use a dummy load.............
Off the soap box.
73
Jeff
