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Uniden 980 SSB
- Thread starter whiteastro
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Thanks. That's my understanding but the modulation meter doesn't show much activity so I want to give it a little help. I don't care much about turning up the dead key because it is paired good with my KL-203 P. The reason I moved on from the radio was that display stinks in the sunlight. Would make someone a good cheap little Base station radio. It seems rock solid On Freq.
The 980 I had - which lasted all of six months - sounded pretty good with simply setting the on-board mic gain to 3 out of 4 bars.
I'm no tech, but I wouldn't mess with the 980 too much.
I'm no tech, but I wouldn't mess with the 980 too much.
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Just bumped the AMC pot ( 205 on my radio ) up a little this morning. still haven't made a contact yet.
I owned one of the early version 980's and although it wasn't a big talker, it worked well for years before I donated it to a fellow driver. I used it in a t800 kw so it was mounted overhead and didn't have the display washout because of the location.
Those rigs are so clamped down on the modulation that even cranking the mini pot all the way up won't gain much.
Probably a perfect candidate for say a kl-203/303
Tried it yesterday but no luck making contacts. Gotta check it out some more. External SWR meter says excellent swr internal says crap swr. Gotta disconnect the KL-203 P and try the swr. Just seems like one problem after the next. This is getting Old ! LOL
If you have the amp and a watt meter in line the radio's swr meter will show you the swr between the radio and amp. If that number is high this means the amp is not tuned to a 50 ohm load as good as it could be. You might try a different size jumper to see if this helps fool the meter some. Only other option would be to have the amp worked on.
First I used 3' of RG 8X then I tried 18" of 213U if I remember the last one correct.
