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President Lincoln ii+
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I dropped the D104 from a 3.5ish, to a flat 3 after that, and I’m a bit happier with it. Unfortunately, my wife’s parrot wouldn’t shut up, so the recording had a lot of noise. Lol.
To my ears they were pretty close. Both seemed a little "raspy" with the stock mic seeming a bit more. After several re-listens I don't know if it would be worth the $$$ to buy the M6 
Thanks for the feedback, Woody.
It definitely sounded better to me with the D104 gain dropped to a flat 3.
Here’s another video for you.
It definitely sounded better to me with the D104 gain dropped to a flat 3.
Here’s another video for you.
Cool! Are you talking now? I'm listening to DX on an SDR site in New England and there's a lot of Southern stations coming in on 38LSB
(I don't get the weather related DX here in the Houston area until later in the season)
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
I think the d104m6b sounds better than the stock mic. The stock mic sounded a little muffled. The 104 has more highs right where you need it. Is the d104 stock or have you done the mod for more bass?
I thought the D104 was better too, but they’re so close.
I clipped the 270 ohm resistor in the D104.
I just shortened the other video with the gain turned down more. The differences are more apparent in this one...if you can get past the parrot chatter in the background! I think the receiver is a touch of frequency, also, and that’s some of the raspiness.
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Scrapped the D104 for now...went very scratchy after a couple weeks. Predictable, I suppose. Bought a pair of switches from eBay, but in reality the mic is just too much work for the marginal difference (and I like the channel buttons on the stock mic).
Also, xyl made me some indicator dots with her vinyl cutter, to keep Rf power where I want it. Liking it.
Also, xyl made me some indicator dots with her vinyl cutter, to keep Rf power where I want it. Liking it.
Soldered the new switch into the D104 today. That little feat was not only operating on the fringes of my rusty soldering skills, but also affirmation that I now need reading glasses.
Hopefully the new switch holds up better than the factory one.. no idea what people have experienced with that.
I unsure which mic I’ll use, but couldn’t stand to have a broken one laying around.
Also, I found some other things I don’t like...all related to the memory function.
1st, the memory channels aren’t adequate. Not sure what I was thinking, but 5 isn’t enough. For some reason I was thinking there were banks of them, and I just hadn’t explored it yet. 3 memories I use just for “beacons”, meaning 27.025 and etc. That doesn’t leave me much.
2nd, The up down buttons on the mic can be set to control frequency instead of channel. Great! However, if you’re on a memory channel the feature is disabled and you’re back to scrolling through memory channels. Not so great.
3rd, the NB/ANL setting is tied to the memory channels, as originally programmed. Sometimes when I’m static and the QRM is low I can turn it off completely and get a good copy on extremely weak transmissions. But bump the memory channel once, and it’s back to wherever it was.
Anyway, in discovering these things I probably won’t use the memory anymore except for a quick check of common frequencies when tooling around the neighborhood.
Hopefully the new switch holds up better than the factory one.. no idea what people have experienced with that.
I unsure which mic I’ll use, but couldn’t stand to have a broken one laying around.
Also, I found some other things I don’t like...all related to the memory function.
1st, the memory channels aren’t adequate. Not sure what I was thinking, but 5 isn’t enough. For some reason I was thinking there were banks of them, and I just hadn’t explored it yet. 3 memories I use just for “beacons”, meaning 27.025 and etc. That doesn’t leave me much.
2nd, The up down buttons on the mic can be set to control frequency instead of channel. Great! However, if you’re on a memory channel the feature is disabled and you’re back to scrolling through memory channels. Not so great.
3rd, the NB/ANL setting is tied to the memory channels, as originally programmed. Sometimes when I’m static and the QRM is low I can turn it off completely and get a good copy on extremely weak transmissions. But bump the memory channel once, and it’s back to wherever it was.
Anyway, in discovering these things I probably won’t use the memory anymore except for a quick check of common frequencies when tooling around the neighborhood.
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That's a great price! I got mine from Amazon when it was $249 and I had a bunch of reward $$$ saved up. It's now selling for $219 on Amazon as well.
That's a great price! I got mine from Amazon when it was $249 and I had a bunch of reward $$$ saved up. It's now selling for $219 on Amazon as well.
Yes, I saw that Amazon had dropped the price after I posted.
I was holding out for a 2950 for the house, but ordered another Lincoln II last night...it’s a lot of radio for that price, IMO.
Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
Shade, I think I may have seen it on Simonthewizard’s page. I opted to have mine done because my butt gets all puckered up when I have a soldering iron anywhere near an SMD board.