Hi John.
That may be, but I've also found that often two radios of the same model
can vary a bit in performance just because of differences in
alignment. Most of the time radios pass QC because they are good enough to
make minimum specifications, not because they are necessarily optimized.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 08:35 AM 1/18/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>that must be why because I don't have any problem at all with my TMg707A
>like that.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 11:59 PM
>Subject: Re: Handihams, was: RE: exam
>
>
> > Hi Christy.
> >
> > One thing that I have noticed on 70 cm is that the TMG707 has a pretty
> > wicked image response that does cause stuff from the commercial band to
> > come through on the ham frequencies. I chalked it up to living in a major
> > city, and being only about one and a half miles from one of the major
> > communications sites.
> >
> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
> >
> > At 06:23 PM 1/17/2007 -0600, you wrote:
> >>Well, the offset wasn't the problem. I checked it, and it's set to
> >>positive,
> >>as it should be. So, either something's goofy or there's just none of
> >>those
> >>repeaters near me, but that does seem odd considering there are eight 2m
> >>repeaters I can at least key up, three of them I know I hit well even on
> >>five watts.
> >>
> >>I'm a bit hesitant to run the radio on 35 watts, mostly because even if
> >>the
> >>antenna can handle it, I'm not sure about RF exposure. It's under the
> >>limit
> >>for requiring measurements and the like, but I'm in the same room with
> >>this
> >>antenna and I'd rather be safe than not, especially with cats around that
> >>just looove to jump up on the filing cabinet I have it on. I know that on
> >>ten watts, I can't key a one of them up at all though. It's hard to know
> >>if
> >>I'm receiving or not as far as the repeaters since I don't know which ones
> >>are really active, but I do receive some out of band stuff.
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: For blind ham radio operators
> >>[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> >>[log in to unmask]
> >>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:00 PM
> >>To: [log in to unmask]
> >>Subject: Re: Handihams, was: RE: exam
> >>
> >>
> >>Christy, 70cm is harder to hit. If you're using an antenna indoors you
> >>may
> >>well
> >>have problems hitting the repeater. Run the rig on 35w if the antenna
> >>will
> >>handle the load. Also, if you're using a magmount try sitting it in a
> >>frying
> >>pan (cast iron works well for this) to get some ground plain effect.
> >>
> >>Rigs like the Kenwood ts570 have a built-in antenna tuner.
> >>
> >>Since you have a computer you can get a serial cable to connect to that
> >>707
> >>and get output if information from the radio that isn't spoken normally.
> >>
> >>Tom
> >>Tom
> >>Brennan
> >>KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP web page
> >>http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
> >>
> >>
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