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pc 122 xl

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with mods what kind of numbers can this little unit produce ???

im seeing 5 swinging 14 right now, im picked this up off from ebay a coulpe of days ago
 

Thats about right...you dont want to over do that little radio on SSB..I used to run those all the time, a good little radio, the only problem I ever had with one was the front end getting wiped out a few times. Could have been just that one, after it happened a couple of times I ran the RF gain a little back and worked great....I must have owned seven or eight of them over the years..Kept coming back, nice compact and good talkers..
 
should do about 18 watts pep on both AM and SSB at 100% modulation ,(give or take a watt either way) clairafier will open nicely and the radio will take the N kit for upper extras , A very decent little AM/SSB radio , I personally like it better on the SSB then I do the AM side. Good loud audio on both and will take nicely to a good quality Power Mic. (especially when they have a volume control were the radio itself doesn't) It's not a older 148GTL or Grant XL (those radios have much better receive in them along with a few other features) but for what the PC-122 is , it will totally hold it's own. I talked all over the world on one. (-:
 
im running it on my base with a turner 66 moblie power mic, locals all like how it sounds, i watergated it and sounds great to me, loud and crisp havnt had achance to use it on ssb, all locals talk om am

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This is what my baby can do >
(after I played with it) :P

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AM (7 watts carrier) >

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AM (20 watts PEP) >

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SSB (20 watts PEP) >

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I love this radio!
It has given to me many years of service without problems.
My little giant. :wink:
 
NICE !!!!!!!!!!!! these pc 122's are great radio's, havnt heard anything bad about them, i use mine everyday talking 20 miles on the base with it :)
 
The bigger distance that I talk with this radio without amplifier was Italy.
7000 miles from Costa Rica to Italy!!
And with a ground plane antenna!!
That was the last year in 27.555 mhz (USB). :wink:
 
Hulkster said:
Thanks! :wink:
But my Yaesu FT-840 does not sound as good as the Uniden.
(In AM of course) :P

And probably... in SSB too! :shock:
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What is the IF filter bandwidth that your Yaesu uses for AM? If its less than 6khz, thats likely why it doesn't do well on AM. My Kenwood TS430 was the same way when I first got it. It only had the SSB filter installed. Once I installed the AM filter, AM worked MUCH better.
 
You can make a good channel board for these pretty easy- it will give you from channel 40 up into the 10 meter band a bit

For power I did a cool npc mod on mine-- put the modulation into the driver too--doing that made it run alot cooler-- did a bit of this and that also-- ended up getting about 1 watt swinging to 17 watts (or somewhere around there)-- but I usually ran it at about 8 watts swing to 17
Biggest thing the mod did was keep the heat down-- bit I still added a small heatsink behind the finals and one on the side of the radio behind the audio IC-- she ran alot cooler-- I ran it with an audio compressor in it, it sounded good and the audio could really cut through
Love those radios
 
Hulkster said:
Thanks! :wink:
But my Yaesu FT-840 does not sound as good as the Uniden.
(In AM of course) :P

And probably... in SSB too! :shock:
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That was the problem with the low audio on those Yeasu 840's-- low IF bandwidth stock-- I think it had only 6 kc's--- even a D104 didn't really liven those up
 

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