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Damyankee
| | Posted on Monday, December 09, 2002 - 3:44 pm: | 
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Well, not smoking in a bad way. I made some cross country contacts including Alaska sitting in the driveway yesterday. Not bad on a 4' Wilson...
I do have a question about the cooling fans. I am guessing that these are thermally controlled. With the cool weather and no extended transmissions I never did hear the fans come on. So, that is my only question regarding the operation of the radio that isn't covered in the manual. AND to the Tech that did the Quality Check, WOW!!! I had nothing but positive comments on how loud it sounded. (S8 in Alaska) My Imax 2000 showed up today. Hopefully I be talking on it by the week-end. I can only imagine what the difference in the antennas will make. |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 12:57 pm: |
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DAMYANKEE Will you Email me hit my profile, I want to purchase the DX93T but first I have a few questions, especially what frequencys are on it now, or do you have to have it modified for the lower forty's plus the uppers, say 25615 to 28.305, or how is it now, and also the fan question you have,
Thank You
Karatebutcher |
Forummaster
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 4:29 pm: |
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I contacted the head technician at Galaxy and here is his response to the question about the fans.
"The cooling fans on the DX93 are temperature controlled and will come on at 130 degrees." |
Damyankee
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 4:55 pm: |
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Forummaster, thanks for going out of your way. Impressed is an understatement, with both the radio & you folks at Copper.
Ron - 340 |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 - 8:30 pm: |
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Forummaster Thank you for the follow up and the e mails, you to Damyankee, and wouldn't you know they are out of stock.
Forum Master Note : I believe we have a Galaxy order in transit and should be in any day.
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Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 11:12 am: |
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FORUMMASTER THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL YOU ARE DOING TO HELP, I ordered one this morning, all I have to do now is call Susan to verify something, happy holiday and tell copper to give you a raise increase. |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 2:24 pm: |
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Damyankee, are you useing a power mike on your radio or stock mike, I was just wondering as I may or may not use one, I asked one of the techs and it is best not to use an amp with this radio, so how many watts pep ssb and you getting?I lost your e mail address, woman you know |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 2:41 pm: |
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Galaxy DX93T how have the reports been on this radio, as far as modulation, clearness, and is the 50 watts ssb ample enough to get out there, what do you think the ssb pep would be,
thank you |
Therealporkchop
| | Posted on Sunday, January 05, 2003 - 9:36 pm: |
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I want to know can this radio be converted? I drive a truck and want to use it on CB channel 1. If it can be converted, what will it the dead key be and what will it talk? |
Karatebutcher
| | Posted on Monday, January 06, 2003 - 11:03 am: |
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Therealporkchop, now that is a handle, well you will have to have a tech answer you for what he can do, but my 93T dead keys at 3 watts, is modified to AM, channels , and talks all over the place, I put it on hi setting and with the conditions right talk from Northern Cal to the East coast, it does over 50 watts PEP that is safe to say on ssb, AM hi never checked it, the tech at Copper do a great job on them, so good one forum member bought two of them. |
Therealporkchop
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 5:01 pm: |
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Well, I did buy one. The guy peaked and tuned it for me and converted it. Now this is the funny part. On his meter, and he's a repair shop, on the high side it showed a 20 watt dead key. Can anyone guess what it showed PEP? Try 175 watts. This can't be so can it? I tried to run mine at home on a power supply, but it isn't big enough. I put it in my dump truck and by the meter on the radio, high side is showing about 35 watts dead key and swinging to around 45, sometimes 50. I thought I was getting alot more radio for my $435.00 bucks. If 50 watts on standard CB channels is all this radio talks, it's a rip off.
Anyone else have one of these? Please tell me what it's keying and talking.
Porkchop |
Pointman
| | Posted on Monday, September 08, 2003 - 12:41 pm: |
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I had mine peak and tuned, on low power dead keys 4W swings 30. Med power deak keys 6W swings 60W. High power deak keys 10W swings 80+.
I love the radio, a real beauty. Walks the dog and kicks the cat. I have been able to speak to anyone I have wanted to reach and I get flowers all the time with it.
I could not be happier.
Point |
Icepick
| | Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 7:08 pm: |
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Therealporkchop, The money you spent on this radio is "NOT" waisted! I was one of the first to get one of these, and have never been happier! I don't know who tuned up your rig.... but if you got a problem with it, then talk to them! This radio is absolutly TRICK! My readings are the same as everyone elses, and every night I turn it on, it looks like Christmas!!!!!!! THANK YOU GALAXY!!!!! I can finaly see my controles at night and keep my rig on the road..... Icepick |
Damyankee
| | Posted on Thursday, September 11, 2003 - 10:52 pm: |
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Icepick,
I second your motion! I love both of mine. (I just love the one 307 worked on more...)
T-chop, peaked & tuned does not always translate to aligned by a professional. Realize that my first post in this thread was last winter talking SSB from my pickup. You may actually just have spent more than you needed to for what you really want! 73's - Ron |
Therealporkchop
| | Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 3:39 pm: |
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I think a new radio shouldn't have to been aligned. After all, it's new. I mean think about it, this thing has a amp built into it. A 2SC2290 transistor. A boomer board only has a 1446 in it, and you can put it in a crappy Cobra and swing 90 watts or better. This radio should swing alot more watts PEP than 60, on any meter. I love the radio, but I thought I was getting more power than what I got. Now the radio has a humming in it. It's from the box behind the meter that controls the backlight for the faceplate. I assume there is a tranformer inside. I'd just love for someone to email me a list of mods that I can do to this radio to get it to swing what it should with a built in amp.
With the driver and final in it, saying you took the amp out, you could swing around 45 to 50 watts PEP. I have a 77 that will swing that much. I know a 2290 should yeild more than 10-20 watts increase. Any help from a Tech or any member please email me at porkchop@ncez.net
Thanks Guys..... |
Tech8541
| | Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 10:04 pm: |
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porkchop,
for starters you say you are going off the meter on the radio for what it is doing. that meter is not accurate. so don't believe what it says.
as for the tech that had it doing 175w on his meter...well, his meter needs to be recalibrated.
that radio will produce somewhere around 70-80w pep. btw, the boomer stinger boards will only do around 70w pep, so the meter you saw 90w pep on also needs to be recalibrated. |
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