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Buck
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 1:06 pm: | 
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Got the new radio, meter, and amp hooked up....Made a call out and WOW....Everyone came back to me.....I am one happy camper. Ive got a warm fuzzy feeling and no KarateButcher...Its not the booze
Buck |
Dx431
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 2:52 pm: |
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Hehehe....love that warm fuzzy feeling..... |
Highlander
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 3:44 pm: |
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What'd ya get? |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 5:24 pm: |
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Good for you Buck on that warm fuzzy feeling, I was on all day long, I tried for you and dx 431 many times, I heard Lon shout for me, so I kicked a little boom boom to the wire and gave a yell back but must have just missed him, I got ships in the Atlantic, good that warm fuzzy feeling isn"t it. |
Buck
| | Posted on Thursday, December 25, 2003 - 7:23 am: |
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Well highlander my wife bought me a new chipswitched Lincoln, I traded some things for a Palomar Skipper, and bought a new Dosy TC-4001P. My shack is a mess right now because I have it all tore apart. I am in the process of changing everything around, making new R-213 Jumpers, and Grounding everything. Take forever to get everything the way I like it. That Lincoln is awsome.....Top Notch.
Buck |
Ca346
| | Posted on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 12:53 pm: |
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I was hoping for a new LINCOLN from COPPER from my wife, but she went and bought me a new SEIKO Gold Chronograph wristwatch. Guess I better be thankful she got me anything at all? |
Bullet215
| | Posted on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 2:42 pm: |
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Does Copper Install the Chipswitch or did you have to send it elsewhere..? Ca346~ Santa forgot to leave my Lincoln also...Don't feel bad maybe next time huh..? |
Buck
| | Posted on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 7:02 pm: |
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Bullet...Im not sure if Copper can do the chipswitch mod or not. Ask in customer service and someone will let you know. Mine was done by a very good friend in Florida...The chipswitch is a great mod
Buck |
Ca346
| | Posted on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 7:27 pm: |
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Maybe... |
Tech808
| | Posted on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 9:12 pm: |
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I will check with the Forummaster and see what we can come up with for you & other's.
Lon
Tech808 |
Dx431
| | Posted on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 10:07 pm: |
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Maybe add that as one of the options when ordering???
Just a thought...... |
Bigbob
| | Posted on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 10:29 pm: |
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Hey Ca346,maybe forummaster needs a new wrist watch,maybe you could make a deal with him on a new radio,hehe.Bigbob |
Bruce
| | Posted on Friday, December 26, 2003 - 10:51 pm: |
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Hi just my 2 cents.........
The lincoln has several very good mods( can be done by user )
1) chipswitch makes this into a true allmode including repeater offsets memories and allows you to tune continusly from 24.8-29.7 ( about ) also has 11 meter bands in the radio REQUIRES GOOD SOLDERING AND PROPER TOOLS.
2) a 10.695 mhz channel guard add one its like a new radio selectivy wise big reduction in bleed over. EASY MOD
3) replacing reciever RF amp ( TRICKY!) but in one i had doubled reciever sens from .4 to .2uv
Just my opinion |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 11:02 am: |
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Bruce I gotta ask that question that you ask all time, WHY. Why put 400 dollars plus into a 1985 model radio when you can buy a new radio with all those things allready included. The Magnum Omegaforce has the offset, split, memory channels, and the memories save mode and freq, it's just as good on sideband as the Lincoln and better on AM, and for a lot less money. If you couldn't have done the work yourself, and had paid a tech for the work on your lincoln, you could have bought a great 100 watt all band HF rig for the same money. In fact, by the time most of us dummies would have paid someone to put all those things in a lincoln, we could almost buy a Ranger 2995 base, or an Omegaforce with a nice amplifier. Just my opinion. scrapiron |
Ca346
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 12:50 pm: |
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BigBob:
What are you trying to do? Get me in the DOGHOUSE? I love that new watch.... I love that new watch... I love that new watch... I almost believe it myself...
Scrap:
I'm with you. You convinced me. Spend $500 on a new ICOM 718? Plus shipping? Better to get the MAGNUM OMEGAFORCE. |
Bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 4:14 pm: |
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Scrap
By nature im a expermenter and taking a well built radio and builting new life into it is something i like to do. Also unlike many on the forum i have the experance and skills to do the work myself. The lincoln with mods is one of the better radio out there and will hold its own with most low end ham radios. Is it for every one .... no are there better ways ..... yes but a decked out lincoln is a fine radio 1985 vintage or not. Would I do it again sure if i had a need to do so right now im maxed out on hf radios. The lincoln is like a S line or a 75A reciever thoes who love them will not be swayed.
Just my opinion
Bruce |
Barefoot
| | Posted on Saturday, December 27, 2003 - 5:33 pm: |
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I own two RCI2950DXs, one Delta Force and just bought a used HR2510 and a new Lincoln- Chipswitched because neither the RCI or delta Force has the receive or the audio of the Lincoln-Hr2510. |
Ozzie
| | Posted on Sunday, December 28, 2003 - 8:56 am: |
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Hey Bruce,
Keep an eye out for a deceased Icom IC-2410. I have one with a dead front panel and Icom want $160 for the IC that is dead. Either that or if you know someone that needs one for parts I have one. |
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