I guess so! It really should say has it been technically Defiled. Which radio dog does this refer to?I guess everyone missed it.
I guess so! It really should say has it been technically Defiled. Which radio dog does this refer to?I guess everyone missed it.
I guess everyone missed it.
Me too.I was trying to avoid the pink elephant in the room.
Hell, just go for it!I think I am just making it worse. Sorry.
Please proceed with the Anytone 6666 subject.
Why not!Hell, just go for it!
No if Apple made them then they would work great out of the box at first then 2 years in an update would hit them and the performance would degrade. That and Apple designs all of their products especialy computers to fail in a very predictable fashion. Let us say a product needs an 100V voltage regulator or 100A rectifier Apple will use one rated for 85V or 85A. Why? They know that 75% of them will make it out of the warranty period with out failing but none of them will make it out of say Warranty plus 1 year unless they are used in a dry cool environment so Alaska, Siberia and Antarctica. Then they make the cost to repair or replace insanely high so that it does not make sense to do anything but buy a new one. Nope I was an Apple Fan decades ago but PC's are cheaper, faster, easy to repair or upgrade. Apple is not what they once were not even close! Apple is for well trained ultra consumers! They are not the Toyota of the PC industry they are more like the Mercedes of the PC world......glitz and glamour and fine to lease but money pits if you plan on owning them past 3-5 years.I can’t stand it no more...
So you’re telling me they work great right out the box? They don’t need no stinking super tuning or magic fairy dust sprinkled in them? No parts changed out to make them work correctly cause the engineers don’t know what they’re doing?
Are you trying to tell me that possibly Apple makes them because they “just work”?
Only a fool would modify a radio for more power and think it will run cooler. Upgrading the components of a radio can help the radio to run cooler but only if you keep the power output the same. The cheapest and most reliable way to make a radio run cooler and last longer is to turn it's output power down.So the video from Palomar showing the temperature on a max mod is a liar?
Yes very true! The same thing is true of the Stryker Radio's deep menus but even worse the front pannel is covered with switches and buttons. The RCI 2950 is too large to fit in a modern car and not look trashy on the dash. It is too big to fit any place else were it can be seen with out taking your eye's off the road and the controls reached and operated easily with out having to look at the unit. Is the 2950 UGLY to look at? Yes Ugly as can be. Likewise the Origanal President Lincoln HR2510 great size and decent control but really needed to be back lit also UGLY as sin but easy to use and could be mounted in more locations. Fast-forward to today the AT-6666 and the like are fantastic size but the user interface and controls were designed by a moron! The Uniden PC-122 great size and controls are fine but not easily expanded for broad band free banding and single conversion unit and again ugly. What we need is a radio about the size of the old President Lincoln with just a few controls on the outside back light, 10-12m coverage that does away with all the stupid gimicky stuff and deep menu's. Build so that standard parts can be used to replace the switches and pots when they fail just old analog controls. Use rf rated transistors for the finals I do not care if they bipolar, fets, LDMOS just make sure they are rated for RF and can take a sever mis-match at all phase angles and have high beta gain at the voltage we have in a car or have boost transformers to get them where they need to be for gain! They have to improve recieve and get rid of all the noise!!! They have to fix sad pathetic audio bandwidth! They have to give us at least one digital mode for low power DX for both audio and data!Here's a side profile - the best side to show what I'm going to suggest you try to work with in the vehicle or even when you're using it at home base or mobile under counter or on the dash...
Ok, see that mic connector? Got a radio like the size of a PC122 TRC465 or Eagle Sidewinder - you have an idea of the footprint - hold your radio to the screen until it's about that size - note the location of those knobs. Panel switches. Tuning dial and manual rotary encoder... Let alone the display...
Ok, next clue - try to operate all those functions while driving.
Does your radio get warm when talking on AM?There are less than a handful of people making videos of radio that are not using it to solicit work.
Rule of thumb is if they are working on radios for customers and doing videos they are all sales pitches and you can't believe more than half of what they say.
Now the Anytone...
The ones in the cars were never opened.
I took them out of the boxes... unlocked them... and put the in the cars.
I have been asked who worked on them. Not a soul. The last guy to see inside is over in China.
Great little radios out of the box.
Well fellas, I got a v3 version of the radio in Monday and finally got around to cracking it open to do some quality inspection. So just for future owners I wanted to say this newest batch changed to the vishay irf-520's just like what Ranger uses. No more 13n10's. After checking bias voltages, carrier adjustments and the typical light adjustments it runs just as good as the v2 (with 13n10's) I'm using as a mobile but much cooler. It's about 10 watts less pep but I don't think it'll be noticeable unless you're a meter junkie. I know there are several folks that had blown finals with the previous ones using the n10's and although I haven't ran into that issue only time will tell how these do as far as longevity. When I get free again to tinker with my personal stuff I'll put the older one on the bench to compare and see what else is changed or upgraded in this newer version. Many knock them for being Chinese but I've had a great streak with the anytone bunch so far and I'm a RCI chassis guy by preference. Anyhow, there isn't much info on these rigs out there so I figured I'd share my findings with others on here. Hope everyone has had a blessed start to the new year!
The quad six is an outstanding radio indeed. with only a few simple mods and the equipment to view the waveform with etc, a powerhouse of a radio bodacious audio and excellent carrier development and peak output. 1 1/2 watts to 11 Watts average on low 4 Watt 224 watt high average, 80 + p e p. Hardy, sturdy, and very well made, these radios handle vibration and over-the-road use very well. The only drawback that I receive feedback wise is being menu-driven, but once that is set up pretty much everything else is just the knobs like every other radio. Good product made by the same factory that makes the styker line of radios. In fact the anytone quad 6 board is nearly identical to the Stryker 955hpc board.Different folks, different strokes. I've never had a lescomm special so I've got nothing negative to say but I've heard a lot of good things about Lester himself. That said, if it's a great rig to you that's all that matters my friend. Back closer to topic now, yeah it's a nice radio with some good potential but that's only my opinion and others who agree because they too have owned one. So far so good here no complaints! They aren't perfect and they'll carry the black box radio stigma but compared to many other "black box" radios it's a for sure winner in many areas others aren't so much. I've really enjoyed the Magnum 1 but for me this quad 6 out performs it in several ways. A wicked little radio is one way to put it!