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New President Washington Mobile Radio?
- Thread starter Shadetree Mechanic
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This comes with propagation. If you prefer dead band conditions just wait a few more years. Then your S Meter will lay flat on your vintage radios.
O wait....You can adjust them vintage radios S Meter VR to already do that .
That's total BS. Even when conditions are booming, if I find a clear frequency my noise level is less than 1 S unit. Same noise level I have when there's no conditions at all.
Propagation doesn't increase the noise level by itself.................
My station is located right behind some businesses along the local highway. My noise floor is normally between s5 to s7 so the noise reduction on the receive is a welcome feature. One day while I was listening, their junk must have broke because the noise floor went to zero. I had to go outside to make sure my antenna didn't fall down. 
Ouch. That would suck. I occasionally have up to s9 from dirty powerline insulators. They act up during windy and wet weather.
I use an MFJ-1026 and it takes the s 9 down to s 1 easily. It requires a noise pickup antenna and is touchy to adjust, but works really well to eliminate noise that's coming from a single source.
I suspect a unit such as that might be a viable solution to your noise problems.....
The MFJ one is the cheapest, but there is also one made by TimeWave that is very good.
I actually have the MFJ, I should probably hook it up. Haha!
Nothing that I can see. That price is $535 Canadian which is just a ridiculous price to pay for a glorified CB radio. .........
I won't be buying any more President radios. Friend bought a Lincoln 2+ recently and has had problems with it. No way will I spend a half grand plus shipping for a potential lemon.
It has the President logo on the front........
Seriously, President started demanding high prices long ago.
Early on they were affordable radios but today they want premium $$$
73
Jeff
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I'm not interested in this one either, just following the thread and reporting my findings. It looks nice and has neat functions but it's too high in cost imo.
Repeater functions, more power and bands is how they're promoting it I guess.
I'll wait for the q6 pro in it's smaller footprint and ability to use a microphone suited for the big truck. It'll replace the 447hpc2 and give solid ssb performance.
Repeater functions, more power and bands is how they're promoting it I guess.
I'll wait for the q6 pro in it's smaller footprint and ability to use a microphone suited for the big truck. It'll replace the 447hpc2 and give solid ssb performance.
First look at the innards and do you see something familiar in this president that we just saw from stryker a few days ago. The module is slightly different but notice that it doesn't replace the existing finals. Also a different audio ic. Interesting!
