RE:"Why? Do the laws of physics change if you spend three times the money on a radio?"


Yes....they seem to .....

I have two of those "low cost" HT's ...  TRASH ..... 

Don't feel bad Tom....I'm have those days...more and more often...!!!
haha ...

I program ALOT of Motorola radios so thats why I remembered that.

I didn't know anything about QC1 tho ... before my time I guess...
Thats what they used in LA on the TV show "Emergency" was it not???

Trip - KT4WO

RE: "Also if you're on dialup or an extremely slow connection, like you inferred, I'd suggest you look into upgrading your ISP. Broadband/cable is almost free nowadays."

Free ... Damn...where do you live??..


Yea...That would be great... maybe you can get them to extend cable or DSL to me....
So...I have a choice between cell broadband or satellite ...both at 60+ a month...

It real easy to say "just upgrade/pay the price" ....Tell ya what..you pay the price
and I will get satellite...!!! ...ha!

As for reinstalling monthly... Thats how I learned alot about the diff. OS's out there...
Now I am paid for what I learned doing that .....

KT4WO

RE:"unless, of course, you don't mind the headaches that a total wipe and reload would give you!"

I do that monthly anyway!!...hahaha ....Really...Well,,,at least
every few months....

Trip - KT4WO

RE:"All too often the people who are compromised didn't do that one simple thing. "

Yep..and real easy to do when you have broadband...
--BUT---
There are still ALOT of us who don't!
I have to carry my desktop to work to do that...PAIN in the arse..
and yes...mine was up-to-date in all respects.

The only thing that saved me was, I dual-boot into Linux.

KT4WO

RE:"QCII sounds like two tones sent sequentially but, in reality, there are FOUR tones involved"

Nope,,, You are thinking of QC1 .... QC2 uses  single tones.(so two tones sequentially)

And, at least in my area, all emergency services use QC2.

Trip - KT4WO

TYT HT's have 2-tone en/de-coding .... I use mine for the local VFD.

Trip - KT4WO

As I run 25 watts (or less)on digi modes 99% of the time, this could have been
a issue for a month or more and I didn't see it.

I did see that RF Parts sells a 2SC19?? as the replacement for the 2SC3133...
Maybe that would be better?...who knows...Like you said..all from Asia.

Trip - KT4WO

RE:"Try CW for a refreshing change in manners and operator skill. "

Yes...the digi modes were good until the P-n-P Signalink crowd
came along.....

George,

Sorry about that...  XP Pro SP3  Firefox 17(something) (at work, can't look)
Running Avast(up to date) and all Microsoft updates ....  Hit my desktop and laptop(same system)

Trip - KT4WO

Eham has been hit again I think...

A FBI warning wanting 400 bucks locked up my desktop...
I reformated and reinstalled....2 days later ,,,while on eham
It did it again!!  FM

Yes...firewalled,updated,antivirus...yes,yes....

Re:Dummy Load

Its the same into the dummy load or  thru the match to my antenna(or real close).
(or into the resonate((spelling?)) parts of the bands on my antennas)

The "import" 2SC3133 drivers "were not" .... I should have known better...

I will reorder from RF Parts and try again....

KT4WO

Think I have nailed it down to the drivers...per voltage checks and power out.

Drivers came in today..will update this weekend.

I guess after 7+ years it been worth the 550 I paid new for it!!

KT4WO

About 16-17 amps on most bands but not all --- one band was down to ~9 amps....
a few others in the 12-15 range.(meter is maybe 10%) ....
I didn't make a list yet.

I'm wondering if its a driver...I have seen some post about failures
of one or both of them... but the amp draw makes me wonder.

My TS-50S is in the 17-18 amp range at ~100 watts ... so I guess it could
still be on the filter board --- need to make a jumper straight from power
deck to meter/dummy load and see what that shows -- That should narrow it
down.

KT4WO

RE:
"Observe the current draw. If it's a LPF relay the current draw will go up as the radio tries to maintain 100w out. If the current draw goes down it's before the final unit."


Didn't even think of that! ... Tnx Clif  ....I will do that now.

Trip - KT4WO