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Travis
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 5:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi, I was thinking about buying a 2950 DX and was wanting to get some feedback on if its a good radio? Thanks, Travis.
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bruce
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 12:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It is a great radio if you are a ham. I had one for a short time and found it to be as good as most low end radios on 10 meters. Another thing you will have to understand is if you open it up and modify it and it dont go where you want ranger an't going to take it back. Now if you are looking to use a radio on another band buy a 2950 or 2970 but forget the dx.
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Len
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 5:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Travis

I have a 2950 DX with a wilson 1000 ant in my car and it works great. Made some good contact's on DXing. Like my 2970 in my house I would not trade it for any thing. Have a good day.
73's Len #111 So. Minnesota.
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Skullman
Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2001 - 6:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Shoot yeah it's a great radio, Travis. I got mine when they first were released and haven't touched another radio since. RCI really improved the new DX model of the 2950. It's more broadbanded of any of the other "export" radios, super easy to operate. Only one thing, make sure you get a modifiable one, some have a board in them that can't be opened up to CB channels, so I've heard. Get one from Copper they'll take care of you.

CEO of DEADMAN INC.
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Travis
Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2001 - 8:50 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks very much for the info everybody, Travis.
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Anonymous
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 7:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

How do you modify this one is it like my old rci 2950? just jump the pins by the digital readout.or is there more?
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Copper_Fan
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 11:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

open speaker side of radio plug in DX3 module close radio 24-32Mhz


http://www.copperelectronics.com/ranger_mod.shtml
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Bill in TX
Posted on Friday, August 24, 2001 - 1:52 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The 2950DX A Damn good radio..Got mine Modifyed,I got two,,Would not trade them for 10 Drifting Galaxy's..Much easier to operate mobil...
You can even see the Readout HA HA...Got the mike between the seats...Just touch the buttons to SURF THE AIRWAYS HAa........Bill in TX
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Matt
Posted on Friday, August 31, 2001 - 2:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A great radio, and real easy to modify. I actually have the Mirage model that Copper sells for $199.00. It is the exact same thing as a ranger, but cheeper. The first person I ever talked to was 50 miles south of San Diego, and that was in the mountains of Kentucky.
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Anonymous
Posted on Friday, September 07, 2001 - 1:23 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I love my Rangers {have 7-2950s & 3-2970s} !
BUT , out of 10 I have ... only 6 came here working up to spec !
Some had receive probs {like having a pre-amp} on all the time ! And other things ; like the Channel Selector going Wild when using the one on the Radio face ,{common on the older ones]!
"IF" they would Tighten up on Quality Control ; they would have killer Radios ! Now I have 3 DX models , and they seem to be better than the older ones ! Now , IF they would just improve the ANL & NB to work as good as the ones on my Grant XLs or an Older 148 GTL ... AND increase the Adjacent Channel Rejection ... they would get no complaints from me !
I can go to 27.??50 to 27.??00 and get bleed over from the 27.??50 freq.> I can do the same with my Cobra-2000 or my Emperor 5010s and hear NOTHING from the "27.??50" Freq.
Still the Best Radios you can get for the price .... in my opinion !
73s ... GREYHOUND
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Jersey G
Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2001 - 8:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I love my Rangers! In my car I have a 2950DX and Texas Star DX250HDV with a Wilson 1000. I shoot skip regularly and have no problems getting as far as South America. My audio is crystal clear and very loud like an FM radio station. Mind you this radio is unmodified except for the channel conversion. Highly recommend it. I also have a 2990. Again-AWESOME. I also use my 2950DX or my Cobra 2000 GTL as my base.
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Warfratt
Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 7:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

i bought my rci2950dx about a year ago.i had 11 meter added from the time i bought it. i had all these old time cbers in my area telling me what my new radio could do.most of them have older model 2950s. then i found out i have many more frequencies with the dx than the basic2950. but i like swing! and noone in my area could figure out how! its not the same as the other 2950s it has micro circutry.that was awhile back now someone says they can get 60 watts and lots of swing out of it.im gonna try this week. oter wise ill go for a mirage 2950. their simple right?
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Inspector
Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 12:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

News! If you have the 2950dx jumpered to go to 21MHz, you can trick it to cover 18.6MHz-36.1MHz with just the keypad!
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bruce
Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 7:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

my alinco will go from 100 khz to 54 mhz with no ticks so whats the big deal?
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RCI2990
Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2002 - 9:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I like a Uniden 2600 or 2510 for a mobile they tend to work good in a cold to warm enviroment and dont take as long to warm up to room temp like a 2950 or a galaxy. They certainly dont drift like a Galaxy either!!!!
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bruce
Posted on Monday, January 14, 2002 - 7:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

2990 i have a galaxy 959 THE WORST RADIO IVE EVER OWNED 170 bucks down the bowl. Sadly my old rad shack ssb went 20 years never missed a beat till i got in a reck and it was zaped under the dash along with a old 2 meter radio ( they rip loose and hit the fire wall hard) then the ranger 2950 gadzooks well back to rad shack again.
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Scrapiron63
Posted on Monday, January 14, 2002 - 4:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Bruce, I don't know about you sometime, I don't like the Galaxy 959 very well either, but I've just owned a couple of them, they are ok for a single final radio, and they are pretty, ha, but I'm spoiled to the double final radios.
Now, as far back as I can remember the radio shack junk has being the joke of radios for most serious CB'ers. Can you say "din plug mike cords, hell that says it all. I noticed Copper didn't even want to mess with those. And, the RS radios are ugly, if you gonna have a bad radio, at least get a pretty one. I haven't tried one of their 10 meter mobiles, but others have told me the 2510, ranger or galaxys are better. scrapiron
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bruce
Posted on Monday, January 14, 2002 - 7:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

scrap i have owen 3 htx-10 they walk circles around a ranger particulay on fm as for rad shacks i have owned 3 ssb units they worked flawlessy and dozzens of am ones in fact ive got 8 of them right now. As for the 2510 it is the same radio as the hx-100 not the htx-10 which is a very well layout set the mangum 257 or 254 im not shuer is the same radio but can be modified.
See i dont run radios out of band i stack them under my dash! Please dont call rad shacks junk unless your talking about the 2 meter htx202 GASP! as for din plugs the htx 10 uses a screw on i think its a 6 pin i would have to look. well my dx-959 sits in its box the ranger is now a back up and may one day get used agsin
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Sodapop
Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 7:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Bruce: I have never owned a Dx-959, but they do look nice. But I hear they are not to good. I would love to try one though. Seems kinda of shame to not run it. Maybe you just need to get in there and fix it up right! *G*

Scrapiron63: I agree with Bruce. I have owned some real sweet RS radio over the years. While the din plug is a pain, you either learn to wire them up, or change them to a Uniden style plug. No biggy, either way will work. But my first SSB was the TRC453? Not sure if that number is right, but it was a great radio. And while I never had extra freqs in it, it tuned up some nice. Clean clear audio all day long!

I think the RS thing really is over blown, I think it comes down to the radio you have the worst time on, and have the most money into. That seems to be how it works. That one kinda turns you on the brand. Be it RS, Uniden, Galaxy or Ranger. Once you get burned, you seem to dislike anything from the brand.

*** And when I say you, I am not picking out one person. I mean it in a third party kind of way. ***

I must say though, you two do have some very interesting topics. I do enjoy it! *G*

Just my thoughts on the topic. We're off the key!
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bruce
Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 11:36 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sodapop i have used in my car on cb this last year the 959 ( gasp) a midland 77-113? not sure the rad shack well several of them including a trc-435 and a rad shack micro 39 buck radio and on 10 meters the ranger 2950, a alinco fm only NICE RADIO, a regency l61a ( ruggid ), the rad shack htx-10 and my alinco all band all mode dx-70. As far as a kick the poop out of it the regency wins hands down as to proformance the alinco fm radio is very small very good reciver nice set and over all the dx-70 is overkill in a car so the rad-shack htx-10 is now under the dash with the midland and rad-shack fighting for the cb spot both are good.I think my expectations for the 959 may have been to high. Im use to mid range ham radios and when i put that kind money into a radio would have thought it would have competed with my alinco at least reciver wise. Nope not even close. And a second problem was the transmitter on ssb it is unstable if you drive it hard not audio distortion but fm ing showing poor design.
bruce
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Sodapop
Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 - 5:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Well Bruce, I can say you have peaked my interest. Maybe I should see if I can get it to run with my 4800. Well maybe not, but I might get it close!

*** If not, then there is the local Tech! *G* ***

I have seen the conversion somewhere, but can't recall how hard it was. I might have to surf the web and check on some notes.

$170.00 isn't cheap though, and with just a 5 digit freq, I can see aome short comings, but it would be fun to try!

I guess it comes down to wanting to see first hand how good it is, maybe used might be the way to go. But then someone else has done stuff to it, new would be fresh and all stock.

Hmmmmmm, choices, choices, choices! *G*
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Scrapiron63
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 12:05 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Bruce, are you serious, you had a 2950 in your car, and something else to talk CB on, man, why didn't you leave your FCC armband and hat at home and use the 2950 for both. I've seen some legal-eagles in my time but your the best. How many antennas do you run on that thing, ha, I bet they can see you coming.

Sodapop, I was just getting after ol Bruce a little about the RS radios, I've had some of the SSB bases that were ok, and I did like you on the mike plugs, if I had to look at those ugly things very long, I changed them to the 4 pin cobra plug. I can't stand to look at those ol din plugs hanging there like they gonna fall out. I really can't comment much on the galaxy 959 or 949, just had one of each, best I can remember, they looked more like the late model 148 cobra's than the other Galaxy radios, that's the board I'm talking about. They are a pretty radio. Scrapiron
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Sodapop
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 6:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Scrapiron: The 949 and 959 do look nice. But from what I have read on this fourm and others, they seem to be a 50/50 kinda of radio. Either you like them for what they are, or you feel they are not worth the money. But I was going to see if I could pick one up, but I have a friend who is selling a Ranger 6900F. And that radio sounds like a good toy to have. And he has a fair price on it. So I might just let the Galaxy radios go for now. I mean wouldn't you do the same if you had a chance to get a 6900F?
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bruce
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 7:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

scrap i have a STOCK 2950 and HAD a 2950dx i swaped it for a kenwood 160-10 meter radio they are NOT illeagual as for leagual eagles if i had a law degree do you think id be running a ranger? As for the 959 you can make it into a ok set by changing the regulator the audio driver transistor adding a chanel guard filter since reciver mods are not illegual they will help. As for cb i have a number of radios i can choose from ALL leagual. Now as for antennas on most of my cars and i will be doing the same on the cady i run 2 trunk mounted wips one for 10 ( cut to 28 mhz) im using a as-100 ant switch with a antenna tunner on the cb set a bit of a trade off but good enough. the other port now goes to the radio shack htx-10 The second wip is a 5/8 wave which is base loaded to 3/4 wave on 2 meters for my alinco 50 watt radio which i can add/remove as needed this antenna also functions as a 1/4 wave on 6 meters for my MFJ 6 meter fm radio. Now for 440 i ran for years a through the glass on the back window but my 5 watt icom ht dual bander but i opted not to install one at this time since i can hit all my needed repeters with just the walkie talkie from inside the car. As for 160 to 10 meters i do not have a big need at this time
but can run one of 3 radios on any of these bands. My car looks like any cb radio users car except for dual antennas and the dual radios inder the dash... the mfj is the size of a coke can and is just bolted under the dash.
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Taz
Posted on Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 8:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

A guy out here uses a 2950 with a mobile max and just a cobra power mic and hes loud, real loud
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Hill
Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2002 - 11:43 am:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Anonymous,
I have a 2950dx with the same receive problem. Seems like I have a pre-amp on all the time. Might I ask how you cured this problem?

Thanks, "673 CNY" Hill
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Westwind
Posted on Friday, March 08, 2002 - 1:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hello everyone! I bought me a 2950 today got it used off ebay for 100.00 it works great.It's the older series 2950 though.Does anyone know where to get the mod that will allow me to recieve 10 and 11 meter?That's the biggest reason why I wanted the 2950.Someone told me the 2950 could be modified to recieve both.Can the 2950 be modified to have talk back?If so,how?Also can anyone explain to me how the usb and lsb work?When I switch it over to usb and it's on channel 19 I can still hear the am 19 side.You can't hear it clear but you can tell that's where the voices are coming from.Does that mean there's a problem with the set?I'm a first time owner of a 2950 so if anyone can help me with any info. on it's use I could sure use it..............Thanks
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bruce
Posted on Friday, March 08, 2002 - 9:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

westwind move the jumper like everyone else does ... just dont tell anyone i told you its that simple... since all you want to do is recive that is not illegual as for SSB /AM on any channel is is the same channel so what is there is there and all SSB is is a modified AM signal anyway i just got rid of my last 2950 in favor of another radio more suted to my needs
bruce radio-doctor@juno.com
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Galaxy_man
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Posted on Monday, February 22, 2016 - 6:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I have had my 2950dx for about 5? Years and it is better by far than other 10 meter radios I have owned. It rocks the bands. The 2950dxis an excellent radio.

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