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If you can budget it, I suggest a used Metcal. At first I had bidders remorse that I just spent $300 on a soldering iron. Once it and I powered it up, I had no regrets. Tip cartridges control your heat and are easy to swap out. Goes from dead cold to soldering temp in FIFTEEN SECONDS Probably...

Glad to see your hittin the Xmit button and having fun brownstone. In time you will get a "feel" for when you can pop in on A conversation. I did hear 2 drivers going back and forth, one mentioning he just became a grandfather. Their signals were fading pretty quick, and did not have a chance...

Thank you. I later tried a .01 Micro Farad cap. I'm not sure how much shorter it is, but it's still audible. If you want to shorten the beep, any mylar cap between .01 and .022 Micro Farad works well.

Ok, I got a bad transistor then. I had a hunch seeing the one I recieved was not shipped in anti-static foam.:oops: I put my stock final back in, and Im dead-keying a tick over 4 again. At least my roger beep mods worked:wink: Thanks guys.

I bought a Workman roger beep for my Uniden 78XL, and was not terribly happy with it after I installed it. I was really going to irritate some people on the other end of my signal if I did not make some changes. The tone is WAY too loud. I corrected that by adding a 1m Ohm resistor in...

Possible... Has anyone come across counterfeit EKL transistors, or an occasional bad one? Im going to put my original final back in for now.:unsure:

Hello, I just swapped finals on my Uniden PC78XL to an ERF-2030, and did not receive the expected results. 1 watt dead key, and a bit over 5 watts peak. I followed the instructions on CBtricks.com to the "T". Do I have a bad transistor? Do I need to change out the driver for better...