So I have this Brand new magnum S9, and I'm almost certain it will need a peak and tune. What should I tell the tech when I arrive? Leave the amc limiter alone or clip it? What else if anything should I expect aside from converting from 11 meter to 10. Thanks folks for your help. 355
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To clip or not to clip. That is the ?
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A co-worker at my former job had a terrible sounding S9. Crunchy clipped audio. That radio constantly lost finals. He always took it back to the same clip and snip shop that "tuned" it in the first place. SWRs were fine on his antennas, and he ran good coax with no shorts.
I don't know if it was a MOSFET radio or not. I assume it was though because the only thing I could figure that was blowing up so many finals was that they were just driven too damn hard.
He is probably still blowing up finals and still looking for another 5 watts from that radio. He never believed any of us that that radio sounded terrible, because his friend, with an equally bad sounding radio, said it sounded "awesome."
I don't know if it was a MOSFET radio or not. I assume it was though because the only thing I could figure that was blowing up so many finals was that they were just driven too damn hard.
He is probably still blowing up finals and still looking for another 5 watts from that radio. He never believed any of us that that radio sounded terrible, because his friend, with an equally bad sounding radio, said it sounded "awesome."
There are too many radios today that "bleed" 16 channels above and below from having limiters clipped and coils spread. There may have been once upon a time I too would have been on that wagon, but knowing what I know now, and trying to talk with my local budds while having some jamoke 5 channels away in Texas screwing up my local qso, it's not within my better judgement to clip, spread, tweak, or max anything anymore. If you need more power of feel better about seeing bigger numbers grab an external amp. Don't destroy a perfectly fine radio.
Make sure you take it to someone who knows Magnum radio's. If you clip it the Top Gun Modulator feature will be worthless.
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If the Magnum is anything like my 959 then don't even think about clipping the limiter. I run a 1 watt low & 4watt high deadkey with the modulation pot cranked up(limiter hooked up) and I run a Xtreme 2018 Turbo Echo Mic. My brother said it is LOUD LOUD LOUD & LOUD but very clear audio. Get a alignment and enjoy having a awesome sounding radio.
If the Magnum is anything like my 959 then don't even think about clipping the limiter. I run a 1 watt low & 4watt high deadkey with the modulation pot cranked up(limiter hooked up) and I run a Xtreme 2018 Turbo Echo Mic. My brother said it is LOUD LOUD LOUD & LOUD but very clear audio. Get a alignment and enjoy having a awesome sounding radio.
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