I have been looking for one of these for years. Everything I saw was either way over priced, or junk, or both. I got this on E-bay at a reasonable price , and it works well. CQ 6
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I have been looking for one of these for years. Everything I saw was either way over priced, or junk, or both. I got this on E-bay at a reasonable price , and it works well. CQ 6
icom 551d.jpg
Nice! I enjoyed the 211 I had, a 251 would've been better. A 551: WOW!
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Having much fun with it lately? Seems to me you are in a great area for six. Around here there is some more six going on now that analog TV2 is up band, but it seems too quiet.
I'm working on a 5/8 wave ground plane for six so I can see if I can get into more than one repeater since they are all a long ways off with lots of hills in between. I would like to make a beam for ssb/cw too, hopefully before the next seasonal peak starts.
Have fun man, looks like a great example of a great rig!
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A bunch of us used to meet on 50.4 in the 80s. I had a Lafayette HA-460 and others in the group had various rigs. Clegg 66er was one. Antennas were dipoles.
At the moment I have a 6/2/440 vertical connected to my FT-726Rs - and frankly, it doesn't play too well at the bottom end of the band. Gotta do something omnidirectional for net use. Thinking about a set of loops for 6/2/432.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
I have an IC-251, not the D. It has the internal power supply.
Supply has just enough oomph to power a 6m transverter
So, it's my 6N2 portable/mobile
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of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman