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Florida89
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 4:28 am: | 
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I want to know of any body that has bought these radios and what are they like do they have good receive will they bark out on the airwaves? not interested in the channels mods. a limiter number would be nice to know.but would like to know of who has bought these radios and what they think of them? are they what you expected? are all these radios pretty much the same board? what kind of watts are they doing. is the receive able to be turned up if too low. if it is low what number needs to be turned up if possible? pretty much want to know everything about these radios before spending a large chunk of money. thanks |
Tech671
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 5:11 am: |
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Sure, they are all updated versions of a 148, Madison, Grant, 2000, etc. based on a Galaxy board using the Ranger 8719 pll. What does that mean? Good ears, clean crisp audio, about 18w peak output with some neat new features. |
Slim1
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 12:30 pm: |
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i sure like my DX2547 base!best "CB" base to come
along since the cobra 2000gtl,IMO. this rig will
hear(RX)just a tad better than my NIB kenwood
TS-440S/AT!!! i added a channelguard to mine and
WOW,what a difference.don't get me wrong;this
board has really good rejection to start with;
i just wanted to get the best RX i could have.
look around the net and you will find the channel mod is quite easy too!i know you sais you weren't interested in that but...good luck,enjoy!
SLIM-CDX285 |
Ss8541
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 6:23 pm: |
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actually, the only thing that they have in common with the 148's, grant's, etc as far as 'circuitry' is the 8719 pll. the rest of the radio is a hybrid version of the ept6900 board. i don't really think that they were meant to be versions of the 148/grants, but rather a very similiar competitor.
the tx is a little choked since they are all fcc type accepted for the cb band. the rx and tx bandwidth is also not nearly as wide as for the 10mtr versions of the 6900 board. the reason is because they lack varactor diodes in the rx and tx sections that are controlled by the vco voltage to shift the bandwidth of the tx/rx as frequency is changed(ch selector and band switch). so they are very similar to the 148/grants with bandwidth, but not in actual circuitry. |
Ss8541
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 9:52 pm: |
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i missed that you are not interested in ch. mods. if that is the case then the bandwidth of the radio should not concern you as it is designed to cover the legal 40 channels. |
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