Hello all,
I've been away from CB for about 30 years and just getting back into it. I like the black box style Galaxy radios back in the day and I just recently bought a RCI 69 Base because I like the CB style functions on the front of the 69 over the 2995DXCF that looks more for amateur to me . I bought the radio with alignment as part of the deal from a reputable shop. I also bought a cheaper meter mainly for the extra 6 digit freq counter and SWR function. It is a Dosy TFB-3001. I know you get what you pay for but it was in the budget after buying the radio and a Maco V-5000 and I will upgrade this summer.
The issue I'm having is the radio is only showing around 40 watts swing on this meter and the paper I got from the shop that set up my radio said the radio was set up to be clean as possible and is doing between 90-100 watts AM, and 80 - 90 on SSB. I don't know if the meter is jacked or the radio is having issues at this point.
One thing I noticed is the meter settings dial is labeled 10 100 and 1000, like I bought it to be... I opened up the meter and looked inside so see if I could see anything visual and I noticed the board in back that has the pots on it to adjust your dead key shows 20 200 and 2K beside the pots. I had one of these meters back in the day and my father popped open the Dosy and set it to be aligned with his Bird Meter at his shop so we were all on the same page and I could've swore it read 10, 100 and 1k on the board in the meter.
I'm just wondering if Dosy is using the same board in all these meters now or if they possibly put the wrong board in this meter... which is cutting my wattage in half and is a 2k board in a 1K meter case? It may be a long shot but it's weird that a radio that supposed to do 70 - 100 watts outta the box is only doing 40 watts and the shop said it was doing between 90-100.
I'll be taking both the radio and meter to my uncle's shop ( who took over for my father when he passed) next week some time, but in the meantime I was just wondering if this was normal for Dosy to use the same board in all this model meter and just changes parts for 1k, 2K and 4K meters and so on? BTW SWR is 1.1 on ch1 and 1.15 on ch 40 with around 94 ft coax run.
thanks in advance.
I've been away from CB for about 30 years and just getting back into it. I like the black box style Galaxy radios back in the day and I just recently bought a RCI 69 Base because I like the CB style functions on the front of the 69 over the 2995DXCF that looks more for amateur to me . I bought the radio with alignment as part of the deal from a reputable shop. I also bought a cheaper meter mainly for the extra 6 digit freq counter and SWR function. It is a Dosy TFB-3001. I know you get what you pay for but it was in the budget after buying the radio and a Maco V-5000 and I will upgrade this summer.
The issue I'm having is the radio is only showing around 40 watts swing on this meter and the paper I got from the shop that set up my radio said the radio was set up to be clean as possible and is doing between 90-100 watts AM, and 80 - 90 on SSB. I don't know if the meter is jacked or the radio is having issues at this point.
One thing I noticed is the meter settings dial is labeled 10 100 and 1000, like I bought it to be... I opened up the meter and looked inside so see if I could see anything visual and I noticed the board in back that has the pots on it to adjust your dead key shows 20 200 and 2K beside the pots. I had one of these meters back in the day and my father popped open the Dosy and set it to be aligned with his Bird Meter at his shop so we were all on the same page and I could've swore it read 10, 100 and 1k on the board in the meter.
I'm just wondering if Dosy is using the same board in all these meters now or if they possibly put the wrong board in this meter... which is cutting my wattage in half and is a 2k board in a 1K meter case? It may be a long shot but it's weird that a radio that supposed to do 70 - 100 watts outta the box is only doing 40 watts and the shop said it was doing between 90-100.
I'll be taking both the radio and meter to my uncle's shop ( who took over for my father when he passed) next week some time, but in the meantime I was just wondering if this was normal for Dosy to use the same board in all this model meter and just changes parts for 1k, 2K and 4K meters and so on? BTW SWR is 1.1 on ch1 and 1.15 on ch 40 with around 94 ft coax run.
thanks in advance.
