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What is your power supply setup and what did you do to get 120V on the DC side? Something sounds messed up if that's possible without purposely doing that.

Thanks, that's super helpful. That's an interesting arrangement. So in theory if you only used channels on 5KHz spacings, you could get away with aligning only one of the cans. Where's a good place to buy a quality alignment tool? I have a few but they're pretty old and beat.

Hi there Retro and Pez, got some photos to share. Pez, I think you're right about the separate cans. What would be the way to go about tweaking those? I have an old R2001 service monitor that's more or less on frequency, certainly enough for these purposes. I checked the radio on AM and FM...

Dusted off the Optima and put it in the truck. On SSB, the clarifier needs to be around 2 o'clock for other stations to sound "normal". Couldn't find a service manual online, anyone know which pot I can tweak to get back closer to 12 o'clock? Thanks, Trevor

Never run AC mobile, probably never will. I think I understand RPMs affect the plate voltage, but why when you key and unkey? Is it because of the loading and unloading of the alternator/engine?

Great product idea!

I'm no guru, but 30-40W average is probably more than you should be hitting that amp with, especially on sideband. Amps with built in drivers really don't need much drive, that's what the driver section is for. What sounds okay on AM sounds like crap on SSB. What are you seeing for PEP from...

Are you saying I shouldn't consider using the surplus 1-5/8" that I have for my stock Cobra 29?? Haha.

Got the radio, never seen anything so well packed. Thanks again!

Thanks brother. Can't wait to check it out. Always wanted one of these!

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Glad it went to a good home!

Thanks for the advice guys, I'll give Hamrepair a shout!

Have a FT-857D that I got from an estate of a good friend who went SK. Worked fine when I got it a few months ago, put it up on the shelf. Took it off the shelf to go do some portable ops, it doesn't put out any power on TX and the digital meter is pegged full scale on RX. I don't use it...

What are you looking to spend? I have one that's NIB beside having 11m opened up if I recall.

Not to hijack, but what's the difference between a 2950DX and 2970DX? I always thought the 2970 was just a high power version (N2 or N4).

Those buttons on the front of the mic are indeed the channel up/down buttons.

What kind of radio is this, so I don't buy one?

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