Anyone own a Galaxy DX 979?

Galaxy radios, as I have learned, are notorious for cold solder joints, which are not a good thing.

Also Galaxy SSB rigs tend to drift until warmed up.

Otherwise they're great on AM. The variable power is a nice touch....big question is does your amp need it? because not all amps are limited to the 2 watt input like most want you to believe.

 

Danger, your experience jibes with what most techs and hams with decent service gear confirms -- as will RM if you can get an answer from one of their engineers. I was told that the specs that are published were written by some optimist in Sales, but that for AM, 1.5 watts is the maximum they should be fed.

Also for best longevity of the transistors, unless you're moving an inordinate amount of air over the heat sink with a fan, and even then the audio sounds like ca-ca (forgive the technical term) That's where I run mine on 10 Meters.

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Nope, not me. i Don't use any of the Galaxies on my ham stations, and I've still got these ancient-yet-still-perfect Cobra 25 and 29 for "every day" AM use. For SSB, I'm not about to try to find a spot that's 0.0025 KHz away from the nearest QRM when I've got hundreds (or even thousands) of KHz channels that are frequently unused in the amateur service. Hoevever, I've got a pretty Royce 1-641 AM/SSB 40 channel rig that sounds and hears right. If that won't make the RF connection that I want to, like when some California Kilowatt has loaded his final so that it is also being used for satellite telemetry. Then I turn to 20 or 18 Meters and go find a clear freq there.
If someone wanted to <ahem> send me a Galaxy for evaluation, I'd happily run it through my lab, but beware: When I rate a rig, I'll report exactly what I see & hear, so I'd make a poor "sales engineer". I've spent way too much on lab grade test gear, that costs more over $1K per year to keep within NIST technology limits, so I tend to be brutally honest when I evaluate a piece of gear. Probably doesn't make me as many friends as the manufacturers hope they will, but the consumers who read my reviews can be assured that they're getting the unvarnished truth when I rate a piece of equipment.
FWIW, I spend a lot of time listening on 16 LSB for the "olde pharte" 23-channel SSB rigs.

I'm unable right at the moment to find the review of the KL-203Ps when driven with an SSB signal, but I *think* that about 6-8 watts P.E.P. was about the max that the input could take and replicate it as QRO on the output....... but I'm not sure. Also, FWIW, my service bench ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS has a low pass filter after the last stage of amplification, before the wattmeter and amp.

Toodles & 73,
Handlebar

 

All wrong, that will decrease your watts

 

Have a galaxy 959 and like it , I would buy another galaxy product in heartbeat

 

Thanks, MD -- I know I can always count upon you to discern what goes on here from "real life" stuph

Speaking of real life: Dunno if you've seen the following formula: E=mC^2 (+/- 3dB for real world measurements)

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