KA9MOT
09-13-2010, 01:33 AM
I swapped for this radio and received it last week. It is an old radio and needed a little clean-up and a display bulb.
I whipped out the old toothbrush, soft bristle brush, some rags and a can of Invisible Glass. I also broke out a couple of white 3mm LEDs and the resistors that came packaged with them.
I got her cleaned up, and swapped out the bulbs in short order. Hmmmm White bulbs = yellow/orange display...White LEDs = Emerald Green display. I don't quite know how that happened, but I like it (I tested the LEDs before install and they are white).
I programmed the rig manually because I had the cable but no software.......it arrived in the mail yesterday.
Tonight I hooked up the cable, ran the software and read the radio. I added about 10 frequencies (where I stopped the other day because I am lazy) and sent it all back to the rig. It didn't go, and reset the rig. After fooling with it for an hour I decided I would just have to reprogram the rig manually. So I did.
When programming a repeater I hate to kerchunk it just to see if everything is programmed correctly, so instead, I ID and say, "Testing". I did this 20 times during the day the last time and I had one person come on when and say I had it correct and my signal was good into the repeater. I've discovered that when you do this at night, with 33 repeaters, you have close to 20 QSOs. Hell, I thought 2M/70cm was dead!
I think from now on instead of keying and saying, "KA9MOT is listening", which nobody ever answers, I am going to say, "KA9MOT is Testing"! You get much better results that way.
73,
Steve KA9MOT
I whipped out the old toothbrush, soft bristle brush, some rags and a can of Invisible Glass. I also broke out a couple of white 3mm LEDs and the resistors that came packaged with them.
I got her cleaned up, and swapped out the bulbs in short order. Hmmmm White bulbs = yellow/orange display...White LEDs = Emerald Green display. I don't quite know how that happened, but I like it (I tested the LEDs before install and they are white).
I programmed the rig manually because I had the cable but no software.......it arrived in the mail yesterday.
Tonight I hooked up the cable, ran the software and read the radio. I added about 10 frequencies (where I stopped the other day because I am lazy) and sent it all back to the rig. It didn't go, and reset the rig. After fooling with it for an hour I decided I would just have to reprogram the rig manually. So I did.
When programming a repeater I hate to kerchunk it just to see if everything is programmed correctly, so instead, I ID and say, "Testing". I did this 20 times during the day the last time and I had one person come on when and say I had it correct and my signal was good into the repeater. I've discovered that when you do this at night, with 33 repeaters, you have close to 20 QSOs. Hell, I thought 2M/70cm was dead!
I think from now on instead of keying and saying, "KA9MOT is listening", which nobody ever answers, I am going to say, "KA9MOT is Testing"! You get much better results that way.
73,
Steve KA9MOT