On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:39:51 -0400, Scott in Baltimore
wrote:


I "found" them a few minutes later when I tuned for someone else.

That's one very good reason to have a locked clarifier.

Every time I had a locked clarifier, I get off frequency comments.


So you're going to believe that someone who's clarifier isn't
at 12 o'clock on the 00's is right? I find it annoying to have
to chase someone around because they tune to my on-frequency
radio and they change their transmit frequency.

A common complaint. But the alternative of having several different
people on slightly different frequencies, requiring you to tune each
one for clean fidelity is, IMHO, a bigger irritant.


Have it properly aligned by a tech with calibrated equipment.

That's good for you, but not for the other guys who align with a
"galaxy" frequency counter.


Also, the Unidens stay on freq better then the Galaxy and Connex crap.

An old Cobra with the Uniden guts will stay on freq summer and winter,
while a Galaxy will drift a lot from turn on to warmup.

My old TRC-451 (Cobra 146) just keeps on going. Feed that into a
225 box on low using a 636L into a KW-7. Killer SSB combo.

You are right about the TRC-451. I aligned mine 6 years ago, and it's
still rock solid on.


The radio was hacked up when I got it. Now it's back to stock
with the final placed off the regulator for dependability.

Mine is still basically stock, with the exception of an unlocked
clarifier. I can stand locked-on ones.

Dave
"Sandbagger"
http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj