Galaxy dx 98vhp swr problem

ONLY IF THE RADIO IS DIRTY .....

Explane what a "TRUE " SWR ( VSWR ) meter is ?????

The SWR meter is so simple a cave man could build it ... The idea goes back into the 1920's ....

I use a meter that goes from 1.3 Mhz to 450 Mhz and is as good as my Bird#43 it is on top of my 706 .... YET I also have some $20 CB meters that will do the same thing on the 11 or 10 meter bands.

 

In my mobile setup I use a dual line section with a 43 meter movement to read output and reflected wattage.

 

Receivers in most CB's are just fine ..that said EVERYONE ( ME INC ) wants to hear just a bit father ....

Now there are PREAMPS of many types but at 27 Mhz the background noise
is high enough that they do little good unless the signal is just above the noise and your receiver is a bit punny ....

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Now I have had several of these and if you need gain they will do it BUT again the noise is high enough that It is not likely it will solve your problem.

Here is my station with preamps from 160 - 2 meters if I need them . The mireage preamp for 2 meters is the black box to the right of the signalink digital adapter.

 

Hey Crazy, I have a 98VHP also. The radio SWR meter is not worth anything. Mine reads 3 consistantly, but between 1.1-1.3 on a Bird. I know what you mean about the finals being costly and not wanting to butn them out. I had my mine tuned to 85% of max & run the power at the 1 o'clock position to insure their survival. I change my coax every year and check the SWR at least every 6 months. I get nothing but complements on the clean sound of my radio. A big ata'boy to Bob in Hagerstown for the tech on my unit.

 

how many watts you can get on AM on the galaxy 98?

 

is on Am or on side bands.

 

Crazy,
Since you've had a shop check your SWR with an outboard meter and give you an acceptable reading I'd leave it alone, unless & until you were to install a low pass filter. They're typically available from reputable manufacturers via eekBay for under $40, and vary in size from 4 inches square by an inch (or so) thick, up to cylinders two inches in diameter and eight inches long. And they can go anywhere between the radio and the first device after the radio (meter, antenna, footwarmer, etc.)
As for the receiver, as Bruce says -- none of us who uses radios as tools or hobby devices is ever quite happy with the sensitivity. But any shop that's going to do a tune-up on a CB ought to be checking and, if found lacking, adjusting the receiver while it's on the bench.
To be done right, it takes (yup!) more than a Dosy wattmeter and a voltmeter. But any shop ought to have a stable, calibrated signal generator as part of its arsenal. Tuning a receiver, even with the I.F. stages (which rarely drift unless they've been "dinked-with"), takes less than ten minutes.
If the radio is on the "bench" of a clipping clod, it's likely that they'll twist every adjustment in sight while watching the wattmeter. Receiver coils won't affect the transmit output, but someone in a rush may just ignore the slugs they turn that don't make any difference after turning them away from where they should have been. A result of that can be an alligator radio -- all mouth & no ears.
And it's important to remember that if you're running 200 watts and you're having a conversation with someone who's running legal power, you'll probably stop hearing him/her/it before he/she/it stops hearing you. Just a thought. I get them so rarely that I try to type them out while they're briefly occupying my brainpan.....
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