I love my astron power supply, I have the rig runner and haven't touched
that power supply in almost 10 years since I got it other than 5 or 6 years
ago when I added the rig runner and power poles to all my equipment. That
thing runs 24/7, since my packet station is up that long and that works out
fine for me. It's funny though, icom has the same power supply listed for
the 7000 I believe as the other radios as does Kenwood with the 480 I think,
and they have molded cords you can't replace that I know of so there must be
an adapter out there or something, unless I'm mistaken. I know I had a
matching power supply for a kenwood radio once and you weren't going to
replace that cord to the radio, no way, no how. Not with out cutting it and
likely they don't expect you to do that so I'm kind of curious how they do
that unless I'm mistaken on that. I haven't really looked at the 2 radios
all that close since neither one interests me right now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: some basic questions on the TS480
> Hi.
>
> Yes, I've heard the same thing. Well, I guess the good thing about
> running
> Astron supplies is that I can hang whatever power cord they give me off
> the
> back of that thing.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>
>
> At 05:53 PM 10/21/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>>The standard may be changing, I hear the Icom 7000 has the same connector
>>as
>>the 480.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 5:51 PM
>>Subject: Re: some basic questions on the TS480
>>
>>
>> >I think you are probably better off without the pigtail adaptor. One
>> >more
>> > source of voltage drop. You're probably just better off to use the
>> > correct
>> > cord in the first place. I know what you mean though. If you have a
>> > Kenwood supply from an older rig, it would be nice to just buy the rig
>> > and
>> > use the same old supply. Or, use the same supply for both the Kenwood
>> > TS2000S and the TS480S if you have the situation that Kevin does. It
>> > does
>> > make you wonder what Kenwood was thinking.
>> >
>> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > At 03:10 PM 10/20/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>> >>I think you can use a standard shielded network cable for a mike
>> >>extension. Worse case, you might have to put a choke on it. I've read
>> >>of
>> >>other folks using cat five extensions for this with no problems.
>> >>I really would never consider the 200 watt version, takes more power,
>> >>only
>> >>gains you 3 db, and one more thing to go wrong. The only real
>> >>complaint I
>> >>have with this radio is Kenwood went to a smaller power connecter, so
>> >>old
>> >>power cords won't work. I wish someone made a pig tail adapter for
>> >>this.
>> >>73s
>> >>Butch Bussen
>> >>wa0vjr
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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