100 Amp linear, and Stryker 955hp receive mods,

It would have helped if Ridgeline quoted whatever/whoever he was questioning. Right now it just looks like he is talking to himself.

 

Due to an over amped buttwipe?

You would be lucky to randomly stumble across someone capable of restoring that radio to factory condition.
Check out Q5 CB or DTB Radio.

 

I was responding to the statement made before my post, so sorry I didn't hit reply to quote the post and I see shogun edited it.

 

Sounded as good as running a 1oo watt amp on a Stryker 955hp, Then saying you want it clean. With a properly tuned Stryker 955hp you don't need the amp. You should be getting 70 watts plus out of the radio, I believe thats about right, so whats the point to detuning the Stryker 955hp to drive a 100 watt amp cleanly. Besides I can tell you do not have a license to run a 10 meter radio anyway. If you got your RX smoked it will more than likely never rx properly again. Good Luck with the radio.

 

You can't afford it and it's not worth the expense for such a small amplifier.

 

A bit OT but I thought the 955 had receive overload protection built in

 

But not a user overload protector. The best mod is to run the coax thru a Toroidal Inductor to a 100 watt light bulb, then use the primary and secondary wire from the choke to a Henry .001 KW amp. This will keep the interference to a minimum. Use 7/8" Andrews Heliax for your jumpers thru the inductor, to keep your loss to a minimum and maintain proper impedance.

 

Don't feel so bad, I'm educated in it and I can't figure out what he is getting at. Lol

 

I think the general idea is to not drive anything hard. Forgo any performance tweaks that push the hardware so you will have some leeway when something goes wrong between the radio/amp and antenna. Running in the winter and ice builds up on the antenna it will cause problems, corrosion in any of the connections will do it also, transmitting next to someone running power is not going to be good either.

Maybe you can run an inline meter and always keep an eye on reflected power/SWR.

I think for reliability it's best just to leave stuff alone. Unless you are off frequency, you don't really need to have the equipment worked on. Just get a stock radio, stock amp, and go with it, It will last longer like that than if you took them to "most" radio shops.


Your stryker was probably burnt out by the person you bought it from? Who knows what they did or how it happened.