I'm still using a RF EXTREME 2018 with mine, works great.
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President McKinley Personal Review
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Did President ever fix the non existent Roger beep on the McKinley USA?
I was looking at buying one from Amazon.
I was looking at buying one from Amazon.
"Roger Beep?......We don need no stinking roger beep!"
Steer that gent ‘round to the GALAXY store, please. As it’s with pleasure I can report that a dual finals 99v2 with Echo (degree + duration controls), Robotic Voice Changer, and Roger Bip provides the adventurer stalking big game on AM-19 the tools required for an on-air explosion which leaves a crater easily 15-miles by 15-miles and 15-minutes in length.
Now, that’ll crack your beer many a night into the future.
To rouse the big ones out of hiding takes practice. A Kentucky windage they never account possible.
A selection of cartridges, tried & true, to accompany the hunter.
Sideband? Hell, got a whole slew of FM to screw yourself blue. Act, then, only in deliberation. Run the checklist before engaging power: Moon phase? Check. Sidereal Time? Check. Winds aloft? Check. Correct frequency? Check.
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Fix it? McKinley's have a RB...Just ain't all that loud and annoying as the Galaxy's...
When the President McKinley first came out it was well known that there was an issue with the Roger beep. The beep tone was so low it was barley heard over the air.
I'm just wondering if president ever addressed that?
I'm just wondering if president ever addressed that?
Why put a feature in a radio if its not working correctly?
I don't understand why some many hate roger beeps?
I have always enjoyed a simple HR 2510 or Ranger 2950 roger beep on AM.
I don't understand why some many hate roger beeps?
I have always enjoyed a simple HR 2510 or Ranger 2950 roger beep on AM.
So if you are using it in a base environment you can do a couple of things to boost the mic audio.
#1 - Drill a hole where the microphone element is centered in the microphone. I did this and it made it much clearer. Because it's behind the plastic it's a bit muffled.
#2 - Add a Road Devil D104 Noise Cancelling Power microphone - I use these on the President Lincoln II and President McKinely radios and they are a great match. Punchy and loud but without the extra background noise. I get some great feedback on the audio with this microphone+McKinley. DXMan on the forum has heard it and can tell you how they match up.
#3 - Add a UR6QW 8 band equalizer and use it inline with the stock microphone. This is what I'd doing right now. Brings up your audio a ton, more consistent output on SSB with the compression, and you can still use the up/down buttons on the stock microphone!
Or you could always just leave it as is too if you're happy with it!
Thanks for the heads-up on the microphone solutions.
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Shadetree Mechanic
Delaware Base Station 808
I didn't think that a Rodger beep was legal on an FCC CB radio. That could be why it doesn't work.
That's just it..."It does work correctly!" It's just not a loud annoying type beep, like what you would hear on a Galaxy or Connex radio... It is audible...People do hear it...I know this because I have been told more than once to "Turn off that Gay-Queer-Roger Beep"...
Where do you think it would be made that would make you happy? Never going to be made in USA, Germany, Switzerland etc....Vietnam or Endo China did not ask for us to come to their ocuntry and get involved in their war. They did not bomb us or threaten us we had no business being their. It is a shame so many young men had to die their for no good reason at all! Guess were most of the silica and optical glass comes from yep Vietnam! So do not buy a rifle scope or telescope since it will have glass made from Vietnam silica.
If your "poofing" an amp it is not because your RF power and mic gain are not locked down. Your radio is not set up right, poor match between radio and amp or the user is negligent.
RF power is designed so that you can adjust your power output down to less than full power not to match to an amp since this is an FCC legal radio and should be under 4watts out of the box.
So all modern amps should be fine with 4 watts but older tube amps and old transistor amps did not like more than about 1 watt swinging to about 3.
If I am trying to talk in a congested area being able to turn the RF power down is a nice way to make life nice for other's. Sadly many idiots do not understand that in a perfect world after you align your radio the rf power knob should not normally go past 12 O'Clock on AM . Likewise with the stock mic or like replacement the radio should be perfect with the mic gain at full tilt. You should only need to reduce it to less than 100% if you put a hotter mic or power mic on the unit.