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You are welcome Homer... I think you like experimenting so when you wind the secondary leave about 6 inches of wire on the end after the coil. In the field especially for SOTA stuff we don't always get to set up the antenna the way we would like. Having the ability to add or remove a winding on...

Hey Homer, Just wondering..in your picture you have the earth of the coax connector connected to turn 2 of the coil and the center to turn 0. I have always put the center of the coax to turn 2 or 3 of the coil and the ground at 0. Probably makes no difference but thought I would mention it.

The keen pricing of the At-6666 is pulling the price of export CB's down. If you can put up with the little knobs on the AT-6666 there is not a lot wrong with the anytone and it easily keeps up with the Stryker and lincoln 2's in the TX audio dept.. It just can't be programmed to work split.

I don't know anyone still using a 5555n

Hard to say without seeing what the back of the radio looks like. My guess is you will be lucky to see 100w out 50w would be more than enough for a box that size.

Frequency range unconverted is 28755 thru 29700 and no FM. Who are you going to talk to?

Hell of a deal!

Try a president Mckinley EU or a Grant II Premium if you can find one. The AT-6666 is a better radio than the Cre 8900 hands down.

I don't think they are still making it. The last ones came out under the Alinco name plate and were being sold off really cheaply quite a few years back.

how do you cool it at those levels?

Dont forget to put a choke in the coax. 1.5m from the 49:1 UNUN works well for me

Leave it stock. Nothing on those other bands worth listening to these days.

That is True......

If you solder the Coax directly to the antenna it makes it difficult to measure the resonance and SWR of the "antenna alone" which is important to maximizing efficiency. You can tune a non resonant antenna to show a low SWR by changing the length of the coaxial cable. Losses in the cable...

If you run the Dx1600 on SSB with more than 14.2 volts DC you will not see a noticeable increase in output power. But you will see a noticeable increase in heat. That also goes for the Dx500 etc. The Amp runs so much better if you do not increase the voltage. It is not a competition amp designed...

Something like the one that came with the 706. I have to say the converted original mic sounds the best for DX by far. You will still need to cross over to the RJ45 connector for the xiegu or re do the connector. Optima mic will also work but a bit muddy also. I find the converted original mic...

very tolerant. One of its many strong points.

Anybody else find the G90 tx audio a little muddy and bassy? Mike from Yeticomnz has come up with a fix that works a treat. Open the mic and expose the PCB inside. Change C15 to 2.2N and C14 to 10N. Much much clearer now. BTW my Icom compatible microphones also work well with the G90.

A tad overcrowded perhaps but seeing the signals a bit above and below where you are at gets real useful after a while. Start depending on your eyes before your ears!

Thats a good price. A lot of radio for that.