I’m not normally a voice guy, but we have some local HF nets in our county in Florida. ?
so I’m up in North Carolina 500 miles away, and I have gotten the second (used) version two All modified up with new IRF 520 finals and several other mods as explained elsewhere. It drives an ancient SP – 200 vacuum tube amplifier and I can get past 200 W output that way. ?On 80 m this is very helpful to try to beat back the absorption from the D layer around sunrise or sunset when a lot of these nets happen
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this is such a nice radio! ?A huge screen went in single side band and I can see panoramic display all up and down, and control the bandwidth so easily, and I just discovered it has equalization as well and it just works so very nicely! ??
I’m very used to using a 7300 and about the only improvement it’s got over this is a nice noise reduction, which could be helpful because I think I’ve got some powerline noise nearby but QRN isn’t very bad today and this is just really really really a nice sbitx radio with a much bigger display than the 7300 making it very easy to see signals everywhere. ??
As more of the V2‘s go on the used market, I may try to encourage folks in our local group to snap them up so we can change out the finals and make these other modifications and they’ll have really really nice radios for dirt cheap. I work with a lot of elderly people and price is important to several of them!
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Gordon Kx4z?
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