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May 16th 05, 11:13 PM
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"Jeff Mayner" wrote:
Fudgepacker wrote: About 6 weeks ago, I plunked down $950 and bought a TS-480SAT to use as a new 11m base rig. I have been very happy with it's performance. After making sure that it was working 100%, I performed the modification found on http://mods.dk/. I used a sharp exacto knife to lift off the SMT R221. You have to use a magnifying glass to get a good eyeball on it. It has an antenna tuner built in and it has 100 w of SSB. It has DSP so you can enhance your audio on TX-RX. You can control it with various software proggies (very handy for SWL). On AM I get very favorable radio reports. On SSB, I worked a station in Newfoundland and he said he was "very impressed" with the audio. I have never heard it on air, but Kenwood's tend have more bass in their audio. It has nice speech processing, but I suspect my Turner +3 defeats it, so I leave it off. I doesn't need any special filters for it to sound right, as you control that with the DSP. So if your considering buying a new 11 meter base radio, get one of these instead a RCI or Melaka. 1000 bucks to use that radio on CB? Man, that's a dedicated CB'r. ;-) I wouldn't sell my base CB for a grand.  |
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