First off... Thanks everyone for the CB purchasing advice. I've been doing
wayyy too much looking at this stuff the past couple of days.
I just had a DOH! moment though. I have an ICOM IC-735 that I bought years
ago for shortwave listening, and because I had recently gotten my ham
license and I thought I was going to do some DXing. Anyway... So I did
shortwave listening for a while, and then I moved and it went in storage,
and I basically didn't do anything with it again until a friend asked if he
could borrow it. Well, it's time for him to return it.
It's bigger than what I'd like for the truck at 3.7"H X 9.5"W x 9.4"D, but I
can probably make it fit somehow. It's an SSB/CW/AM/FM HF transceiver,
1.8MHz - 30MHz receive, and same for transmit with an easy mod.
Continuously variable output power up to 40W AM, and 200W SSB, CW and FM.
Lots of buttons. Here's a picture for the curious:
http://www.quay.com/tod/dak/ic735.jpg
Think I'll try this out before I go and buy a CB. :-) I probably wouldn't
have thought of using it if it hadn't been for Will mentioning modded 10m
radios. Good going, Will. Now I have to get an HF antenna and an antenna
tuner, and then someone is going to break into my Dak and steal it and I'll
have to pay to get the lock replaced. Not that it's worth all that
relatively much anymore (a few hundred?), but it'll be an attractive
nuisance anyway. Thanks a lot, Will. :-)
Maybe I'll just get a CB antenna for it though. I'm now thinking the
Firestik mount with a Wilson flexible fiberglass antenna. Because I'd like
to continue parking in my garage, and I'm not planning on doing any high
powered or long distance CB'ing. Although it would now seem I'll be using
more power than what I was already thinking, even if I turn the power output
all the way down to 10 watts. Bummer. ;-)
-Tod
> yeah.. get a galaxy.. it has almost all the goodies in it
> already, and mine
> even has a fried freq board, or that is what I was told the problem was.
> Hey will, can you fix it for me?
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ABeerCan@aol.com>
> To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: DML: CB Stuff (was: Center console power mod)
>
>
> > In a message dated 4/8/01 7:32:03 PM Central Daylight Time,
> tmfu@home.com
> > writes:
> >
> > << If you want an AM/SSB radio, get a Cobra 148GTL. Have a shop replace
> the
> > MC8734 PLL chip with a MC8719. YOu can go down about 20ch
> below ch1, and
> up
> > into the lower 10m range(depending on how much you "broadband" the
> radio).
> > The clarifier can be unlocked for a +/-10kHz slide.
> >
> >
> >
> > Greg >>
> >
> > Why do all that when you can buy a Galaxy or a Ranger and go a whole lot
> more
> > channels above and below the reg 11m 40 channels. And the clarifier is
> > already a 10kHz slide anyway. Not to mention how much more power can be
> > gotten out of one of these radios than you can get out of the cobra
> 148gtl.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > "You better hope there is intelligent life out there somewhere,
> > Cause I think we got cheated down here on Earth!"
>
>
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