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Received the radio a few days ago, just got a chance to open it up and check it out. Radio was better than described, it is beautiful. First Cobra 29 I've owned, I can see the appeal now. I'm never letting this one go.
Thanks again for the radio, 10/10 would buy from you again.
New? I've never had a problem when I was running my AL-811 on my Palstar AT-500, and now I'm running a AL-80B (transformer wired for half power) through it. I guess the natural progression would be a AT2K or AT2KD, which will handle the AL-80B with plenty of headroom.
Used, you have plenty of...
Just need to change the channel display now. Can't stand the piercing blue display on my 979 at night, have to keep it turned way way down, but the stupid TX/RX light is still blue on RX and doesn't dim. Wonder how hard it would be to swap the channel display to green, meter light to a...
Hrm, good advice all around. I have other boxes, a couple RM Italys and the gamut of Texas Stars from a Mod V to a Sweet 16, but I thought this might be neat for a small knock around kicker. We'll see then.
Have a line on what the seller claims to be a clean "Palomar Mini Magnum" with a SD1446. All I have is a picture of the inside, which looks very clean and unmolested. He says on a wattmeter, it goes to 10W when he keys it, then the tapers off to zero. Worth buying for $40? There aren't a...
This and the equivalent Bird model need to have the indicated value on the meter multiplied by a factor below 100MHz. In this case, it's +30% at 27MHz. So if you're taking 100W on the meter, your actual value is 130W. A bit inconvenient. More suited for VHF and above use, where it's 1:1
I run a 979 in the mobile currently, and did about 7 years ago too. I've got a bunch of other more powerful, fancier radios, but there's something about a nice, simple radio.
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