Great bargain, but I wish we could make em swing. Kind of a dead fish on am if you have a high drive amp.
By the right radio or amp for each other.
Plenty of people try to use a Stryker 955 with an amp that is not designed for that much drive. Likewise a HD amp was not designed for a 3 watt radio! Not secret information you need to join a secret society to learn!
It is not at all hard to find a radio with through componets that can be modified to swing with supressed carrier, asymetric modulation, NPC etc....They might not be cheap or have the freq. coverage you want and they might need to be repaired and modified but still plenty of them on ebay and facebook market place!
No secret it is not an AM beast! These run from $149 to $179 all day long! Considering the price of milk, egg's, butter, burger and gasoline this is almost free in 2024 de-valued USD with Jimmy Carter like inflation! From day one everyone mentioned that these do not have great AM audio. The Stryker 955 is probably the only radio that is a beast on AM from this company with the 5555 also being very good on am.
I am sure the factory could make them an AM beast out of the box but they would not want to scavage sales of other models and the sales of models they make for other clients!
It is amazing that you can get a radio that will do what 10,11 and 12 meter coverage, AM/FM/SSB, 50 watts PEP, is actual stable on SSB, has DSP on RX/TX, echo, +10kc switch for $179 with a magnet mount base and free shipping! That is what I paid just the other day from Radioddity for the bundle. People want to complain in 2024 that it is not the perfect AM radio???
I would say let me know when someone at Galaxy or Ranger or Uniden or Cobra offer something better for a shipped to your door price of $179 or better! That $179 price has to included a SO-239 magnet mount base as well!
There are people that can probe this radio and find ways to modify it but most of them have no desire to and no reason to!! The ones that will do it likely will not share their discoveries for free because they need to make bank! Plus who would pay big $$$ to modify a throwaway no-warranty $179 radio??
How many of us that will buy the Aries II are in need of a radio because we do not own anything else to use? I am thinking none of us on this site are radioless and desperately need something affordable just to get a foot in the door!
I think we all know what radio's are AM beasts and are easy to mod to be even bigger on AM on RX and TX! On the other hand finding an export radio that is cheap and SSB stable that is almost impossible to find at the price you can get an Aries II!!
The guys that take the time to figure out the new and unusal on this site that then share it for free are incredible people that truly love the hobby and community! Anyone can be troubled to figure something out for $$$!
Cheer's to all!
P.S. You can nutralize sulphites in wine with house hold hydrogen peroxide! A pipet or eye dropper 1 drop per 100ml to 150ml will do it for most people. I getting ready to uncork a bottle might now! Mix and then let it breath for a few minutes!