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Anonymous
| | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2001 - 3:49 pm: | 
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Ranger Radios are the MOST POWERFUL transceivers in the WORLD... |
HONKY TONK MAN 593 OUTTA NY
| | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2001 - 5:15 pm: |
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they sure are!!!! GALAXY IS A CLOSE SECOND!! |
Copper_Fan
| | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2001 - 6:20 pm: |
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naaaaaa but they sure look neat!!!!!!!!! |
vernonott
| | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2001 - 6:41 pm: |
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OK! But I wouldn't trade my Galaxy radios for a pickup load of Rangers.Different strokes for different folks. |
HONKY TONK MAN 593
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2001 - 4:56 pm: |
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hey vernonott see the new ranger 2985?? looks cool kinda like the galaxy 2527 except it doesnt come with echo. think copper will ever get these radios in? hey have a good one. yes yes galaxys are nice too have 5 of them....
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vernonott
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2001 - 8:13 pm: |
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Copper will stock anything they get enough request for.Yes I'm a Galaxy fanatic ,but the new General Grant I'm running now is a real mean son of a gun.My radio contacts love it.It's raw ,brute power ,but sounds clear & clean.It didn't start out like that but after the factory rep set it up to my specifications it is a pleasure. |
HONKY TONK MAN 593
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2001 - 11:10 pm: |
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heck i have a general lee and it is louder the my galaxy 66!! actually puts my old galaxy 88 to shame too. hey what is the general grant rated at stock anyway?? i wouldnt even peak it if i buy it. hey have a good one.
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Anonymous
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2001 - 9:39 am: |
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Will any factory rep. set up a radio? |
vernonott
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2001 - 7:04 pm: |
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I'm not exactly sure what you are asking .Anybody who is a authorized rep for a particular brand radio can realign and peak that radio to your request.Don's C.B.in Pa. is the authorized rep for General , Galaxy,Connex and probably many more.He's fast and good and reasonable on his prices. |
vernonott
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2001 - 7:20 pm: |
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Honky Tonk Man : According to the owners manual it'll do fifty watts on AM and 150 Watts on SSB.The way I have it set up it will in low power setting dead key at 1.5 watt and swing to 85 watts.In the high power setting it will dead key at 15 watts and swing to 85 watts.This is on AM as I do not bother with SSB.It could possibly do a little more if I let someone with the golden screwdriver mess with it.That's not going to happen as this radio is clean & clear as is .It's a bad mamajama and drives my amps beautifully .It runs cool and my help runs cool. |
HONKY TONK MAN 593 OUTTA NY AT LEAST FOR 2 MORE DAYS
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2001 - 9:39 pm: |
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sounds sweet. ive never had any luck with a tweeked out 2990 or 2970. never last that is why id never turn them up. now turn them down yes i like that swing you say. cool like to hear you on there sometime. im in ny but friday leaving for the south so maybe ill hear you out there. have a good one vernonott |
vernonott
| | Posted on Saturday, July 14, 2001 - 9:45 pm: |
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Roger - 10-4 Honky Tonk Man,I ratchet jaw on channel 12 & 20 most of the time with an occasional drop to the low side .Have had 9 pounds of trash on both channels most of today so had to drop down to the low side where there was only 3 pounds of noise.73's |
HONKY TONK MAN 593 OUTTA NC
| | Posted on Sunday, July 22, 2001 - 4:52 pm: |
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HEY I RUN 26.955 am HERE VERNONOTT. catch ya around sometime. |
vernonott
| | Posted on Sunday, July 22, 2001 - 8:38 pm: |
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I gave you a shout about 7:30 pm .I'll give it another try on 7-23-01 at exactly 7pm. |
david
| | Posted on Sunday, July 22, 2001 - 9:45 pm: |
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Speaking of RCI and Galaxy,
How come Ranger doesn't make a base station using the ept690010z board? Is it because of a license agreement with Galaxy, who does manufacture such a base (the dx2517)? I have heard that Ranger makes the boards, and Galaxy builds and distributes their own radios using the ranger boards. Ranger does make the rci6300 and rci6900 radios (both mobiles) using the ept690010z.
The reason I got a Galaxy 2517 instead of the RCI2980 is that the ept6900 board is supposed to be a slight improvement over the older ept3600 board. I think that the new RCI DX radios (2950/70/85/90 DX) are nice too, but I don't like the control layout with those little buttons under the display. I like the 'analog' approach better, and I think it looks cooler, but that's just my opinion. |
vernonott
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2001 - 7:21 pm: |
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Honky Tonk Man : I guess the conditions wern't right.I sent 1200 watts your way at exactly 7pm tonight with no response . |
HONKY TONK MAN 593 OUTTA NC
| | Posted on Monday, July 23, 2001 - 9:33 pm: |
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still at work made me stay longer....ill be on tomarrow morning at 7 am til around 8 am then again around 5-630 the daily work commute!!! later man. |
WB6HEV
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 4:50 am: |
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A yaesu, Kenwood or icom is much better than any Ranger "wanna be" ham radio. |
vernonott
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 7:17 am: |
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WB6HEV : I believe you are correct although they are cost prohibited to the average cb'er. |
vernonott
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 8:05 am: |
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Honky Tonk Man :I tried to get to you at 7am and again at 7:40 am.At 7:45 am I dropped back to the home channel 27.105 and talked to Double Barrel in Dallas ,Texas for a few minutes.I don't run beams and unless the conditions are perfect I hardly ever can make the trip to N.C..73's Greenhornet |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 11:37 am: |
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yeah, and those yaesu, kenwood and icom radios are wanna be 11 meters too! |
bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 11:57 am: |
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I agree i use a ft-840 on HF the best thing about a ranger ( which i run on 10 meters ) is since i work at the county jail if someone rips it off im not out 800 bucks Like most cost efective radios my ranger even with extensive reciver mods including a channel guard filter is subject to a wide range of intermod and frount end overload problems beleve it or not my little old rad-shack cb set that ive run stock to have cb in my car has no problems at all it is a 49 buck radio i bought 20 years ago you get what you pay for but still for the money the ranger isnt bad and never fails to turn on and work.
bruce |
707
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2001 - 11:04 pm: |
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Yes, and Formula 1 cars corner better than street rods.
Lessee... for around $250 you MIGHT find a "Big Three" vhf handie talkie, which allows you to join in on all the "interesting" chatter on any number of repeaters. Exciting stuff like the Monday Night Area Rainfall Net, or maybe even some guy talking about how the dump hose fell off his motor home.
For around $250 I can outfit a mobile with something 11m that will provide hours of entertainment on the road, or even a multi-mode base station that gets the job done, can regularly talk across the country or across town.
Amateur radio is cool, but 11m is easy, affordable, and can be experimented with just the same by anyone so inclined.
You can break the speed limit just as easily in a Camaro as you can in a Jaguar. Different strokes for different folks. |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 10:56 am: |
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707 sorry i did not get your point ham radio is not expensive a good hand held can be bought for 100 dollars and a hoped up illegual export radio for 500 |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2001 - 11:44 am: |
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707 understand that as a ham and someone who has been in elecronics for almost 40 years the idea that 250 is affordable is no better a argument for brakeing the law than any of the other lame ones i have heard if you want anything you have to be willing to work for it if you feel the system needs to be changed file the papers
40 years ago i converted WW2 surplus to work on the 2 meter band i could not aford to buy the store bought stuff Money is not any hobbies problem ham radio is not expensive nor hard to get licensed for
bruce |
707
| | Posted on Friday, July 27, 2001 - 3:35 am: |
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Bruce- I was referring to new equipment prices and features/capabilities. The price comparison is not an argument for breaking the law.
BTW- I operate on 6m, 2m and 70cm daily. At least half of my antenna farm is homemade. I'll be spending a portion of this weekend finishing up a 2m to 6m transverter. I like to play with stuff I've built as well as stuff off the shelf or incredible hamfest finds.
I'll also talk on 11m. |
flash
| | Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2001 - 2:21 am: |
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Rangers are good radios but they make them look so cheap.Like the 63 and 69 look so plain. Like a piece a plastic. |
bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 28, 2001 - 10:24 pm: |
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anyone interested in knowing about the 6 meter ranger i have one very nice **** they did a good job on it. |
707
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - 1:45 am: |
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yes, how is it construction wise, how does it hear and talk? I am thinking about getting one next month. I've already seen 'em pop up on EBAY, so I'm wondering what the deal is. |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - 12:48 pm: |
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IT is very close to the 2950 dx im waiting on the service book to come out in oct. I have used it on all modes it does very well i have 2 other 6 meter multi modes a alinco dx 70 and a yaseu ft-620 so i have something to compair it with and it compairs well with both. Guys if you are thinking of a good starting radio for 6 meters this is a winner! Only time will tell how well they stand up but they are build like all the rest of the rangers and that a'nt bad. I realy cannot think of anything they could have done except maby a add on high power amp. Reciver checked on my bench was on fm .4 for 12 db ( on a s/n meter )I later measured it on ssb .3 was clear in the speaker. on AM i got .7 clear and to be frank when or not it was 10 or 12 db didn't matter when if it had been in the real world you would have heard every word. Output was a real 10 watts on my stingy watt meter at 12.5 v. I paid just over 300 dollars about 325 with shipping. i dont want to hurt copper so i will not state where it was bought but it is being carried by most ham radio dealers. 707 it will by my pleasure to hook up with you on 6 one day
73
bruce |
HONKY TONK MAN 593 OUTTA NC!!
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 29, 2001 - 9:05 pm: |
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im still waiting for ranger to make a 2meter / 6 meter and 10 /12 meter in one radio then ill get one heck maybe two. catch ya on dx either on cb free band or ham im listening!!! |
bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2001 - 7:42 am: |
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im with you on 6/2 hold on while i clear my ts-700 off my bench to add it. As for 11, 10, 6, and 2 it is very unlikey that the fcc would allow the production of such a radio. Above 30 mhz fcc aproval is required and that does not alow for a cb/ham radio. I dont freeband my radios are leagual all of them so ill have to pass you up on that part but you can catch me on 29.6 ( FM )almost every day. |
RCI 2990
| | Posted on Monday, December 10, 2001 - 6:01 pm: |
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Problem with those big expensive ham rigs is they use that puky sounding low level modulation on AM as opposed to SSB for which they are designed for.. So someone that spends 800 to 1500 denero for a Yaseu Icom or Kenwood ends up being dissapointed when they key up on AM and someone says they sound like you know what. cant see spending all that money for a radio only to use it to talk to CBers....Just my experience thats all!! |
bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2001 - 7:26 am: |
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RCI im with you lissen on 29.0 - 29.2 for the guys running the old AM radios ... ah ... sweet sounding .. with a d-104. Not many carrer injected kenwoods or yaseus. Nothing like the sound of a push-pull 1625's screen taped on the transformer in a plate modulater driving a pair of 6146's.. beats the crap out of a lot of this high end solid state stuff. Takes me back to the good old days when i could tell if my 2 meter AM transmiter was working right because i could see the white hot grid glowing through the rad hot plate... hummm the smell of resisters burning.
bruce |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 1:29 pm: |
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Hey Bruce: I'm like you, I like the things "that glo in the dark", and the old plate Mod, nothing can beat the sound. I have an old Johnson Viking transmitter in storage, I need to get it out, fire it up again, I think I still have the antenna switch, use my old Saturn for a receiver. They run the 6146s. I have a pretty nice amp for its day, a Henry 2K classic, console. It runs 2 of the big glass tubes, 3-500Z's. It takes 70-80 watts to make it idle along. When I use to run them quite a bit, I liked to turn off the lights in my shack at night, and watch those tubes glow.
After reading these posts, I had to fire up the old Henry a couple days ago, I drove it with a transistor amp, about 70 watts in, looked pretty good on the meter still. Scrap |
RCI 2990
| | Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 4:25 pm: |
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yeah i like them old Yaesus that use tubes in the final section. even if they do drift somewhat i love that sweet warm tube audio! Just makes a guy feel nice and fuzzy all over!! Done get me wrong i like my 2990 but once in a while i like to talk on my tube stuff too!!! |
bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2001 - 4:42 pm: |
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Hey scrappy i still have a shirt that says " REAL RADIOS GLOW IN THE DARK !" On 10 meters and some on 40,75 you can hear the guys running the old radios nothing on am like a plate modulated radio with screen taped modulater tubes running neg feed back and just a small amount on cliping useing back to back triods ( 12ax7) as diodes. For years i ran a amieco plate modulator with a johnson 6&2 on 6 and 2 meter am nothing in the world sounded like that station. I got to admitt my new htx-10 sounds good on am i worked several am stations on 29.03 from my car. Sorry to say im not inpressed with my ranger at this point on any mode. Only once did i get a chance to fire up my ft-840 on am it worked well and my alinco dx-70 except for getting too hot sounded good also. But nothing sounds like the old boat ankers of 40 years ago have you ever heard a collins 1000 watt am station O'my what a wonderfull sounding station it fit in a 6 foot rack barly.Well i deal with high teck stuff all day at the county jail and it is nice to retreat back to my youth now and then ... one reason i joined the crystal radio socity. I bought a 800 watt amp which sits in a box i fired it up once just to make sure it worked.Ive got so many radios boxed up and sitting because i haven got the time to use them but with the new room i should get my station back up by summer im on 29.6fm at 3:30 pm est weekdays and if your in tampabay look for me on 146.97 or the jail repeater at 145.45
bruce |
