TS-430

[W3WN]

< snip > on a amusing note. me an a guy local was rag chewing couple hours ago on 28.315 and we made some illegal chickenbander mad

Tell him, if you run into him again, to report you to the FCC. :twisted:

[W2NAP]

Tell him, if you run into him again, to report you to the FCC. :twisted:

lol, well the dick had one of them illegal radios with echo and rogerbeeps and all. anyway we was chatting away and he shows up. 'this is my fucking channel beep" so my reply to my friend was "got the recorder handy? might have to send a tape to the fcc" dude lost it lanched a slew of f-bombs ect ect" dude went into total tard rage mode. and what made him even madder. me and the friend live 3/4mile away we just continued talking like nothing was going on

[W3WN]

lol, well the dick had one of them illegal radios with echo and rogerbeeps and all. anyway we was chatting away and he shows up. 'this is my fucking channel beep" so my reply to my friend was "got the recorder handy? might have to send a tape to the fcc" dude lost it lanched a slew of f-bombs ect ect" dude went into total tard rage mode. and what made him even madder. me and the friend live 3/4mile away we just continued talking like nothing was going on

Ha! Priceless! Perfect retort!

[W2NAP]

Ha! Priceless! Perfect retort!

closest thing i can compare to the chickenbanders rage was the n9ogl rage tape i got on youtube

[W3MIV]

The 430 was infamous as a chickenband special back in the day. Lots of them were modified to tx in the CB spectrum. It was a "simple matter of snipping a single black wire." I have always been a bit leery of them on the used market because of that. Always wondered what "other mods" somebody might have made whenever I would see one on a tailgate at a hamfest. A good friend, now SK, had two of them and loved them for their audio. Bought both at the old ham shop in New Castle, DE.

I owned a Yaesu FT-101EE that I sold for a premium because that rig had an 11-meter position on the band switch, and it would transmit on that band; I sold it to another ham, and I have no idea of whether or not he used it on 11m. I sold it because I wanted a newer rig with WARC bands and was limited as to what I could buy. Now, of course, I wish I had not sold it. It was a very nice radio with surprisingly little drift after it heated up and settled down. Not much for a fast QSY, though.

Now I like digital modes and love the ability of my IC to move around with no fuss and no muss. I can switch from 80m to 30m at the push of a button and the outboard autotuner tunes flat at the first key.

[W3WN]

The 430 was infamous as a chickenband special back in the day. Lots of them were modified to tx in the CB spectrum. It was a "simple matter of snipping a single black wire." I have always been a bit leery of them on the used market because of that. Always wondered what "other mods" somebody might have made whenever I would see one on a tailgate at a hamfest. A good friend, now SK, had two of them and loved them for their audio. Bought both at the old ham shop in New Castle, DE.

I owned a Yaesu FT-101EE that I sold for a premium because that rig had an 11-meter position on the band switch, and it would transmit on that band; I sold it to another ham, and I have no idea of whether or not he used it on 11m. I sold it because I wanted a newer rig with WARC bands and was limited as to what I could buy. Now, of course, I wish I had not sold it. It was a very nice radio with surprisingly little drift after it heated up and settled down. Not much for a fast QSY, though.

Now I like digital modes and love the ability of my IC to move around with no fuss and no muss. I can switch from 80m to 30m at the push of a button and the outboard autotuner tunes flat at the first key.

IIRC, the stock 430 came with transmit disabled on at least one of the WARC bands (don't recall now if it was 17 or 12 meters), and snipping that infamous black wire was neccesary to enable transmit on there. It was also neccesary to implement MARS operation.

It's been a long time since I owned (let alone sold) one, for some reason my memory is nagging that there was a touch more involved than snipping a wire... but not much more (snipping a resistor lead comes to mind).

So, I'd be very surprised if you saw a 430 on the used market today that had NOT had that mod done to it.

[W3MIV]

...I'd be very surprised if you saw a 430 on the used market today that had NOT had that mod done to it.

As I say, though, it was not that mod, but whatever else might have been done in the interest of not being "a goldurned mud-duck" by, shall we say, less than electronically talented fingers. As it was, it inaugurated one of Kenwood's best transceiver lines.

[W5GA]

I owned a Yaesu FT-101EE that I sold for a premium because that rig had an 11-meter position on the band switch, and it would transmit on that band;

Drake twins will also, all it takes is putting the right rocks in them.

[N8YX]

Drake twins will also, all it takes is putting the right rocks in them.

Ditto Collins...

[X-Rated]

Ditto Collins...

My Hallicrafters HQ-215 receiver will tune anywhere between 3.4 to 30 MHz with the right rocks. There are mods out there for getting it onto 160 as well.