RCI 6300HF From 1-10 how does this radio rate

That should be a great radio. As a stand-alone, it has more power than the 99 (which is what I run). I'm just assuming that they are similar to the Galaxy 48t and the Connex 4600, which are known to be good radios. Really, the only thing the 99 has that your radio doesn't is a large meter and SSB, and SSB doesn't work well on a 99 anyway. I guess the 99 also has robot voice and voice changer, but who needs that garbage? I think that will be a great sounding radio with good receive, you'll probably like it better than your 99. You need to make sure your SWR is good, that radio will get hot in a hurry with high SWR.

 

does your 99 wander a little on SSB or is it pretty stable ??

 

It wanders. I guess that's why I say it's not great for SSB. I have a 93t that I got to try out SSB on, but I ended up never using it for that, although it was very stable. I also had a Philippines Grant for the same thing, but I like my big meter! But yeah, the 99 even drifts through the day with temperature extremes. If it's under 40 or so, it'll show 27.187 until it warms up.

 

Great! Glad you got it going, enjoy.

 

Thats a good setup you've got, have fun !!

 

The heat sink coming out the back is standard for dual-final radios, which is what that is. You really are probably better off with that one than the big 150 watt version for your purposes, less stuff to worry about as far power supply and grounding. They stopped making the 1969 finals a couple of years ago, so a few things have changed since everything's changed over to mosfet finals, but that's still a perfectly good radio.

 

Nothing wrong with Wilson that antenna should work well for you..