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| Reviews Summary for Alinco DR-600T |
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KI2U
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Rating: 5/5
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Nov 1, 2007 12:20
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A great radio
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Time owned: 6 to 12 months
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I am rating this as a used radio. I purchased mine from an SK sale. It is true that the internal battery was dead and would not hold memory. It took some looking to find it. It is in the control head/front panel. Once I located it, cost to repair was $3 and some solder. I have this radio as part of a portable emergency station in a box. I actually like hearing the fan running as it lets me know it is working. I will agree that it would be nice to have the ability to make the panel even dimmer, but with age, my eyesight is going to need all it can get. My watt meter shows full power out and there is lots of good information on these radios available. I have both the dtmf microphone and also a heil headset that I use with it. It is designed to do the cross-band repeat work though I have not tried it yet. I like that it will monitor both UHF and VHF at the same time...even has separate speaker jacks for it. Mine is used and other than replacing the battery, it has performed flawlessly!!
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N0VA
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Rating: 3/5
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Aug 20, 2007 20:26
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Pretty good old dual-band
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I noticed this radio had not been reviewed here on eHam. There must be quite a number of them still in use and I would like to see what others have to say. The DR-600T replaced the DR-599T and was in turn replaced by the DR-605T. I have owned this one a short time and use it strictly at home with a power supply. This model is out-of-production.
Mine will not retain memory channel data when switched off, even with the power supply left on. Hopefully, a battery replacement will correct this problem. It does have a cooling fan and the fan turns at a high rate making more noise than I would like to hear. The display backlight has two setting, bright and too bright. I would prefer a few more steps down in brightness. The key press/function "Beep" volume is selectable between too loud or not at all. Separate UHF/VHF pigtails require an external duplexer for use with a dual-band antenna.
The size is good for a home base radio, about 2H x 6W x 7D. Programming is fairly simple and a user's manual is available in the Alinco.com archives. The rig has received good TX audio reports on local a repeater and the audio output (2.5W) is good from external speakers. I heard 1 complaint about the DTMF tones being a bit too loud.
The only mods I've found on-line are to extend the TX and RX range. What I would have prefered were mods to lower the "beep" volume, more dimmer steps for the backlight, and continuous fan operation at a much lower and quieter RPM. With a new memory battery and those modifications I would rate this one a "4."
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