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I just saw this . 1pm in Arizona. Nothing on 50.145 usb so far

Yep I get that. I mostly tinker with radios and antennas. Used to go do the portable and mountain top stuff alot . I've made some pretty good 2m ssb contacts but 6m has always eluded me.

It's still a good prop tool. If the band isn't open ft8 won't work. Nobody is asking you to embrace it. And contrary to popular belief it's not a low power mode either. I listen for it to see if the bands are open. If you don't hear ft8 on 6m you don't have a fart in the dark making a phone...

As exciting as cw. I listen for the ft8 to see when the band is open. Unfortunately all the Hams these days do ft8 more than any other mode. Ft8 is a good propagation tool.

I never hear anyone on 6. I even check ft8. Nada

Here's a video of it with the 12mhz xtal

It uses a 5mhz pto vfo.to mix the frequency. I think it still depends alot on the xtal for each band. So really you could connect a dds vfo to the xtal socket. It drifty, doesn't have am. The rx us nice. It's a "neat" usa made 80s radio without general coverage. I might lose my Xtra license...

It works to to 26.6 . I was listening to stations on 26.555lsb in south America today. It loses lock long before it gets very low in the band. It's worth using it in the 29mhz spot and then I can order a 12.8mhz for the 29.5 spot . That's what's available unless I want to do something creative...

I found a 12mhz xtal. I'm going to give it a go.

I'll look through my box of xtals. Is Ken's still really selling xtals? There are oscillator modules you can buy in lieu of a crystal like tcxo modules sort of

https://www.kb6nu.com/another-ham-radio-business-owner-shoots-foot/

According to them this radio was never mars cap capable. The company was bought by a douchebag who also bought alpha. He was talking stupid to people on a forum about the company's status. He's just a rich wing nutt with a attitude problem. So now days it's pretty much done. There will be no...

Wonder if a dds vfo could make it work lower in frequency. It goes as low as 27.800 something

I've never dealt with a pto tuned radio. It has a pretty nice rx. Definitely can't used 29.5 mhz since it has no fm capabilities. So that would be fine with me. Very quiet rx but does drift per spec at 200hz per hour.

I have a corsair ii. I want to unlock it for 11m. It's not general coverage. There's 4 10m positions. It has only cw and ssb so I don't see why it has the 29.5mhz positions since no FM If anyone knows how let me know.