TELL US ABOUT YOUR SETUP

[unit_399]

TELL US ALL ABOUT YOUR SETUP !!

What are you guys running ?? Here's mine

Cobra 139XLR (1978.) stock mike
TX600 amp
4-element quad flatside on 60' tower.
4 Mega-watt 50W power supplies in parallel
Drake W-4 wattmeter
LMR 400 Coax

So . . . I've heard so many of you on the air. What are you running ??

- 399

 

[TM86]

What are you running ??

Running? Scared when the XYL is pissed at me.

AT 5555 Plus in the truck through a Wilson 1000. I'll throw other radios in there for testing. No base until I can move out of the Hell Owner's Association or figure out how to run an EFHW so they can't see it even with snow on it.

 

[BC Coyote]

In my shop... Kenwood TS-140S, Turner CS-1 desk mic, Kenwood AT-230 antenna tuner/switcher, Daiwa cross-needle SWR/power meter, Megawatt power supply with added filtering. Also sometimes use a Cobra 148GTL side mic & a re-biased Palomar 200 when I need that retro kick.
All this runs into an Antron 99 at 40 feet or a 54 foot dipole at 30 feet. All coax is Belden 9913 RG8.

In my mobile.... Barefoot Anytone 6666 and a K30 mag mount antenna. Works surprisingly well for what it is !

 

[AmericanEagle575]

I run a Ranger 2995 DXCF with a M2 Delta desktop Mic hooked up to a Antron 99 using about 30 feet of RG213 and the antenna is mounted on top of the house, approximately 40 feet off the Ground, No mobile radio setup yet as I'm trying to figure out where to mount it and these new car's don't make it easy with all the electronics,etc!!

73's

 

[sp5it]

President Jack/PC-122/DNT Carat with Sirtel 2016
More than enough.

 

[Dmans]

Kenwood TS-440SAT
Cobra 139XLR
Cobra 138XLR
Cobra 148GTL
Anytone AT6666
RCI 2970 (SMT board with bipolar driver and finals and Toshiba 2290's in the amp section)
Palomar 300a
3 el Hygain horizontally polarized at 36'

The radios are listed in order of preference. I just finished the RCI restore last night and was monitoring 38LSB with it. I finally ended up turning it off and listening to the 139XLR. Much quieter receive (Thanks to unit_399's suggestions!) The 138 has been modified the same as the 139 and will rival it in performance in every way. I have other radios I will put inline at times but the ones listed above are permanent fixtures to the bench.

73
David

 

[Greg T]

Sold off all my "Big" stuff and whittled down to a Stryker 955 into a Texas Star DX-500, into a Daiwa 901 meter, into an ancient Johnson #250-20 LPF, into a Sirio 2008 antenna. My microphone of choice is the Yaesu M-1 Reference mic operating on the electret cartridge.

 

[Brother DXer]

Current setup...
Galaxy 2547 - Astatic D104 desk mic
President Mckinley
Anytone Ares2
Low pass filter
Solarcon A99
Radios above are running through the KL 203P
StrykerSR-955HP V 2 - Astatic Road Devil
Anytone 5555 N2
I Max 2000

MFJ 868B Giant Meter
And the forever necessary Leg Lamp.

 

[tba02]

For 11 CB Band

Radio: Icom IC-736 w/ HM-219 microphone / Uniden Grant XL w/ RF Limited Xtreme 2018 microphone / Uniden PC122XL w/ RF Limited CR577 (Depends on the day)
Amplifier: Cobra XL 450
Antenna (1) Sirio Gain-master at 25 feet to the feed point.
Antenna (2) Moxon on a 20 foot walk-up pole, armstrong rotor method.
Power supply: MegaWatt S-400-12 36 Amp
Coax: RG-213
Meter: MFJ-949E

 

[lonestarbandit]

My setup has changed.
All Rangers, Presidents, Cobras, Magnums etc went to the closet.

Yaesu FT710
TRC 457

Yaesu turned down to minimum runs into (for now till I list it for sale here - 4x2879 base amp - to be replaced shortly by incoming Ameritron AH80A 1x 3-500z) to one analog and one digital swr/power/mod/freq meters to antenna switch box selecting an Imax or Maco VQUAD beam antenna.

Yaesu also now uses a dual mic setup through a switchbox (got tired of swapping mics) as AM needs the Turner +3 gain and on SSB its far too much so Inrad studio mic (ostensibly a Heil equivalent) is used there.

 

[Rick330man]

Base 1: Uniden Bearcat 980 with a Workman DM502 base mic driving an A99 with a Firestick FS-99 tip.

Base 2: Realistic TRC 490 (bought in 1981) with a Turner Super Side kick driving an IMAX 2000.

Marine Mobile: Cherokee AH 100 AM/SSB walkie talkie driving a Shakespeare 5223 8' marine CB antenna.

Mobile: Cobra 148 GTL (bought in 1992) driving Wilson 1000 magnetic mount.

Each set up is 100% barefoot. None of my radios have been tweaked, peaked or messed with in any way.

 

[W4KVW]

I have a NEW ICOM 7610 & an ICOM 9100 with both Optional roofing filters & the D-STAR module installed. I hope to get the New tower & antennas up soon & until then I'm using the Antron 99 at 30'. for my HF QSO's. I will plug in the ICOM PW-1 as well once the HF & 6 meter yagi antennas are back in the air as well. I have an ICOM 2730a for VHF & UHF with a Diamond V2000 vertical at just 30'. In the mobile I have my ICOM 7000 with the Little Tarheel HP.I also have the ICOM 4100a & a Diamond 7500SG.

 

[w9cll]

I was thinking that this being posing in the CB section you are asking about current CB setups, well I don't have any CB setup anymore. My last setup on that band was in 1990 and that consisted of a ICOM 720a (yellow wire cut), Big Stick and PDL2 on an 80' tower. Nowadays, I use a Yaesu FT-101ZDMKIII on HF, homemade hex beam on a 60' tower, homemade fan-diople hanging off a tree limb(wires for 6-17-20-40), ICOM 706MKIIG with a High Serria Sidekick screwdriver mounted on a Breedlove ball mount on the SUV, Turbo Tuner for tuning the screwdriver, Yaesu FT-901DM with a 2 and 6 meter transverter for 2 and 6 SSB, Comet CX333 tri-band vertical, ICOM IC-38a for 220mhz, ICOM IC-2000h for 2 meters.

 

[BC Coyote]

I use a Yaesu FT-101ZDMKIII on HF, homemade hex beam on a 60' tower, homemade fan-diople hanging off a tree limb(wires for 6-17-20-40), ICOM 706MKIIG with a High Serria Sidekick screwdriver mounted on a Breedlove ball mount on the SUV, Turbo Tuner for tuning the screwdriver, Yaesu FT-901DM with a 2 and 6 meter transverter for 2 and 6 SSB, Comet CX333 tri-band vertical, ICOM IC-38a for 220mhz, ICOM IC-2000h for 2 meters.

Sounds expensive ! Did you rob a bank or cash in your kids inheritance LOL ?!?!

 

[w9cll]

Sounds expensive ! Did you rob a bank or cash in your kids inheritance LOL ?!?!

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