A new BIG Radio on the way !!!

Heck I passed the test so it can't be hard ...

 

Hey guys,
My fan motor in my tractor is throwing RF noise at my 2950. I can't open the squelch or increase the gain. What can I do bout this?

 

ferite beads on the fan wires .....

 

Ahh what? Your tranmission was 10-9......

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrite_bead

google is your friend!

 

Well, except that it's unlawful even for a licensed ham to use a so-called "export radio" on the ham freqs, because the FCC has said that they're actually thinly-disguised CB radios with labels put on them to try to skirt the law by making them seem to be 10 (or 10 and 12) meter radios. C'mon, how many hams use roger beeps, echo, and channelized operations without frequency readouts?
FCC Illegal CB Radios

Here's a list of the radios the FCC has outlawed. Part of the exception to the rule about hams being able to use kinda *anything* to get on the air is that if it's commercially manufactured rather than homebrew, has a scanning receiver, and/or has a frequency determining element that can be so easily converted to CB use that even a caveman can do it. (Apologies to the cavemen in airports with tennis racquets.)
But it *is* legal to take an old HyGain CB rig and convert it up to 10m FM, or put in a doubler stage and put it on 6m if you like. So even hams aren't allowed to transmit on a Galaxy 94HP or whatever.
Besides, who'd pay that much for a singleband rig that pulls twice as much current as an Icom or Kenweird for the same RF output and has an output spectrum that looks like a spruce forest, anyway?
Just one multiply-licensed guy's opinion.....<drooling, reaching for my bug....Hey, you kids, get off of my lawn!....>

 

" But it *is* legal to take an old HyGain CB rig and convert it up to 10m FM, or put in a doubler stage and put it on 6m if you like "

Part of that is the hygin cybernet was at one time a legal cb radio. Many radios before 1976 fell into BEFORE certification or even type acceptance .... remember the old part 19 .... pre 95 .... some linear amps are legal for ham use under those rules.

 

Interesting to see the Magnum 257 made the list. I actually have one that I used as my first 10 meter rig, on 10 meters. I got great reports on how it sounded.

 

I've got an Emperor TS-5010 that goes by a couple of other badges in other countries. I've got a WWII surplus leg strap Morse key that I use for 10 meter mobile while the XYL is driving -- has a nice CW note and the RIT comes in handy -- and even the SSB is stable. There's no TX offset, though, so any FM I do is simplex only. I understand it's easy to put on 11, but I haven't bothered; there's a stock Cobra 25 in the van for that.