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david_v13021
| | Posted on Monday, October 15, 2001 - 5:34 pm: | 
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i just got my galaxy dx 959 from copper and just wanted to say it is a very nice radio. and wanted to know if others had anything else to share about there dx 959's |
dx
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 11:20 pm: |
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i have the 949 it transmits very good but the receive is lacking on ssb. the stock speaker is junk so make sure you use an external speaker. |
joedog
| | Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2002 - 7:00 pm: |
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there are good radios worth stealing , i'm on my second one now, easy to tune up but dont expect to get the wattage the tapes say. |
Apachee
| | Posted on Sunday, May 19, 2002 - 6:04 am: |
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Got a dx 959 last week, pegs the needle out on A.M. about 18 watts on ssb. Great radio. Got it at copper's |
ferd
| | Posted on Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 3:02 am: |
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my 959 stinks , has a high nose floor on recive , lacks on agc , audio stinks on revice {with extl spkr even} noise blanker not good enough . as for the people that think i don't know what i am talking about , i have been working and repairing aircraf vhf am radios and avionics for 18 years and i know a poorly desighned radio when i get one. hell , my old 2510 kicks butt over the 959 anyday.
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Bruce
| | Posted on Sunday, September 14, 2003 - 1:12 pm: |
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Ferd .....
Ive been fixing radios for almost 40 years.... a GMRT license and HAM so i know a bit too. The 959 is a x10/x11 board common to galaxy and very close reciever wise to the ranger 2950. I have and like very much a lincoln which ive put a chipswitch in for 10 meter repeaters.... like the 2510 a nice well thought out set. Back to the 959 i didn't like it either but could easly see why others would for a cb market it works just fine ...... high noise floor or not. As for noise floor i can tell you my radio stock out of the box was about .4UV on SSB and .7UV on AM MORE than good enough to hear the external noise even on a closed 11 meter band. Now i DID change the detector diodes the RF amp ( receieve ) and added a channel guard which finshed killing off the p***-poor noise blanker.
Speaking of aircraft radios .... in the mid 60 i ran a SCR-522, a ARC-3 a BC-348 and a bank of ARC-5's on 2 and 6 meters and worked in engineering for a place called C-RAN building and testing 121.5/243 down pilot radios in the mid 70's and on the wsc-3 and several aircraft sets for the Navy at E-systems in the early 80 - 90's. Again YUGO or BMW ? |
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