has anyone had a radio built by lesters customs?

[222DBFL]

Lesson learned 918, the 959 is not one of my fav radios either. They just drift too much for me. If you need a powerful radio, maybe a 2970 would be a better option. But IMO, a radio and external amp of that size should be separated. While not having any bells and whistles, the optima is an SSB talking radio. I can't find a flaw in mine anyway.

 

[Sideways]

LOL here it is

Hey wheelman, what does it do on a.m.? His vid showed a 100 watt dk, swinging to 400 or so.
Does the variable power control just the radio, or is it variable for the amp too?
As others have said, I would also upgrade your power wire to at least no.4 on that long of a run.

 

[wheelman918]

A Galaxy 959 is not a good radio to do these kind of mods to. Poor quality control, drifty SSB and poor receive (white noise).... this kind of stuff makes me glad I run the old CB equipment. But then again, I'm real old school with my thinking, just do a good alignment, put in a few channels (no channel boards, etc), unlock the clarifier, and call it a day. If I need extra power, I just get an external amp. I couldn't ever justify spending $500 for something like this 959 when I can get a good 1980's AM/SSB mobile PLUS an amp for half the money.

W9CLL is right on the money with his suggestion for an Optima MkIII. 40-50W of SSB power, drift free on SSB, good noise blanker circuit, compact size.

Sorry that ya feel you got ripped off, but hopefully you'll see that the new stuff isn't always better!


~Cheers~

i agree with you 110% im putting in no 6 power wires right now and one last try before it goes back in the box

 

[wheelman918]

Hey wheelman, what does it do on a.m.? His vid showed a 100 watt dk, swinging to 400 or so.
Does the variable power control just the radio, or is it variable for the amp too?
As others have said, I would also upgrade your power wire to at least no.4 on that long of a run.

the variable works for radio and amp both

 

[wheelman918]

the variable works for radio and amp both

oh and on am id get about 150 im wondering if its really an sx 175 ive had dx 500 a couple 667s dx 400s dx 350 hdv ive wired many amps the radio is just too turdesque

 

[wheelman918]

oh and on am id get about 150 im wondering if its really an sx 175 ive had dx 500 a couple 667s dx 400s dx 350 hdv ive wired many amps the radio is just too turdesque

and the lescomm board sucks it drifts its like just some blingy shit like curb feelers on a car lol im serious just garbage

 

[ExitThirteen]

The Lescomm board itself isn't the reason why the radio drifts... it drifts due to the crystal oscillator and the clarifier circuits... they are poorly designed/cheaply built with low quality components from Galaxy. Robb and I have done some extensive modifications and testing on this, and have concluded that the 949/959 radios are just plain awful for drift. We were able to get a little bit of the drift out, but nothing near where it should be. I can't speak for the rest of the stuff that Les did, but his channel boards are top notch.

~Cheers~

 

[wheelman918]

The Lescomm board itself isn't the reason why the radio drifts... it drifts due to the crystal oscillator and the clarifier circuits... they are poorly designed/cheaply built with low quality components from Galaxy. Robb and I have done some extensive modifications and testing on this, and have concluded that the 949/959 radios are just plain awful for drift. We were able to get a little bit of the drift out, but nothing near where it should be. I can't speak for the rest of the stuff that Les did, but his channel boards are top notch.

~Cheers~

i upgraded the wire spent 100$ got a capacitor as well and no 6 its an sx 175 went to a radio shop it will only spike 20 amps the dude tried to bullshit and rip me off, nothing of his is even close to top notch its just blingy curb feeler crap and crap it truly is, the channel board is worse than the old galaxys on ssb just garbage sorry to sound negative i paid the bucks to find out and thats my findings blingy junk great for them truck drivers that talk to each other with their rf gains down, the receive...........well you seen that vid right? oh and got to noticing the box for my radio here is pic ill be shipping that shit box back to him monday and contacting paypal

 

[wheelman918]

i upgraded the wire spent 100$ got a capacitor as well and no 6 its an sx 175 went to a radio shop it will only spike 20 amps the dude tried to bullshit and rip me off, nothing of his is even close to top notch its just blingy curb feeler crap and crap it truly is, the channel board is worse than the old galaxys on ssb just garbage sorry to sound negative i paid the bucks to find out and thats my findings blingy junk great for them truck drivers that talk to each other with their rf gains down, the receive...........well you seen that vid right? oh and got to noticing the box for my radio here is pic ill be shipping that shit box back to him monday and contacting paypal View attachment 14772

what i got post vid he made for me was an sx 175 i paid for an sx350 promise ya its a 175 shit gona hit the fan, i would not buy anything from him its all junk, looks good on videos and his rigged equipment vid of my old cobra be up in a few

 

[wheelman918]

The Lescomm board itself isn't the reason why the radio drifts... it drifts due to the crystal oscillator and the clarifier circuits... they are poorly designed/cheaply built with low quality components from Galaxy. Robb and I have done some extensive modifications and testing on this, and have concluded that the 949/959 radios are just plain awful for drift. We were able to get a little bit of the drift out, but nothing near where it should be. I can't speak for the rest of the stuff that Les did, but his channel boards are top notch.

~Cheers~

and the squelch scan? thats like lipstick on a pig worthless except maybe in a rare atmosphere occurrence lol thats just laughable really

 

[wheelman918]

The Lescomm board itself isn't the reason why the radio drifts... it drifts due to the crystal oscillator and the clarifier circuits... they are poorly designed/cheaply built with low quality components from Galaxy. Robb and I have done some extensive modifications and testing on this, and have concluded that the 949/959 radios are just plain awful for drift. We were able to get a little bit of the drift out, but nothing near where it should be. I can't speak for the rest of the stuff that Les did, but his channel boards are top notch.

~Cheers~

oh yeah and the dimmer only dims the counter and the dimmer it is the receive actually comes up a bit and that knob is all loose and junky feeling

 

[w9cll]

Return it and get your money back. Enough said.

 

[wheelman918]

here is old faithful out of the box the test vid is processing the test is over the lescomm lost horribly lol the beast came out the box not even a contest

 

[wheelman918]

Return it and get your money back. Enough said.

here ya go the cobra and some idiot playing music on channel 19 which shows the audio the processor quality and extreme perfection filtering this thing has the lescomm new mosfets just got knocked out

 

[wheelman918]

here ya go the cobra and some idiot playing music on channel 19 which shows the audio the processor quality and extreme perfection filtering this thing has the lescomm new mosfets just got knocked out

he says no refunds so im sure it will be a turd deal ive never went into a thing like that on paypal but im about to