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852
Advanced Member
Username: 852
Post Number: 583
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2014 - 8:56 pm: | 
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Anyone been brave enough to try out one of these yet? I have found little to no information about them so far.. I'm curious cause I recently purchased a Galaxy DX33Hp2 to only find out 2 weeks later the company I drive for no longer allows these type radios in their trucks.. |
Revpo
Advanced Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 720
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2014 - 8:53 am: |
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It is a repackaged uniden 78, made in VIETNAM.
CEF795
73
REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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852
Advanced Member
Username: 852
Post Number: 584
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Monday, October 13, 2014 - 6:41 pm: |
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Okay, does this make it a good straight up AM radio or not? I have never ran a Uniden 78. |
Dale
Senior Member
Username: Dale
Post Number: 2122
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2014 - 8:18 pm: |
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well i had a uniden 78 and loved it. i think
with a GOOD antenna it could be a decent radio
maybe even a lil klv amp or better yet a cr577 mic
if i wanted a am only radio i would consider it
dale/a.k.a.hotrod
cef426
cvc#64
454 [dx numbers]
38lsb
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852
Advanced Member
Username: 852
Post Number: 587
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, November 01, 2014 - 9:09 pm: |
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Update: Got the Road King 5640 with the peak and tune. Out of the box radio 4watt dead key, peak 18. After the tune 9 watt dead key peak 40. Radio was peaked and tunes using a Sencore CB-42 analyzer, Bird wattmeter, and oscope. Installed radio in the truck connected to a Wilson Trucker 2000 ant, 18 feet of Wilson Coax. SWR 1.3:1 across all 40 channels. Now comes the interesting part, radio was working fine. Until riding into the rising sun for about a hour straight.. Guess the heat reflecting off the windshield was to much. The radio began acting up as in when keyed up the needle on the meter wouldn't even move, tried it on the SWR function and even cranking the calibration all way to the right no needle movement. But the needle would barely move in normal SRF mode when modulating into the mic, but everyone says it sounds like i'm talking way off frequency or something. And the ant warning light flashes when modulating, although SWR is good... So by now you have probably guessed it, i'm not a happy camper and radio is boxed up headed back to the shop it came from.... |
