To amplify on Skipp's statement about ADI radios, I have a 220 repeater in Skipp's vault on Mount Vaca, and I was using an ADI 220 radio to monitor it. It was on constantly for about six months; the display would become unintelligible, and the radio would stop transmitting. I would do a hard reset, and it would start working again; but it would lose all its programming. I finally gave up and purchased a new ALINCO a year ago and have been pleased with the radio, it just keeps percolating along.
Gregory AC6VJ --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "skipp025" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > QST wrote a 224 MHz radio review a few years back and I had been > meaning to save it. Three or four of the available 224 MHz radios > were covered. Alinco, ADI, Kenwood, Icom and someone else... at > least. > > Alinco Radios have a pretty good reputation and my ham friend likes > to beat the snot out of his gear... yet it keeps on playing like > the day it was built. Of the two Alinco Radios that I know were > returned for service... both were fixed right the first time and > returned in a semi normal amount of time. > > ADI radios have had reports inbound about the display failing... and > no replacement. I have yet to confirm that report but I have heard > it from a number of people/places. But ADI radios are also sold for > really cheap prices. > > I've got a few Kenwood TM-331 radios and they work pretty good for > what they are. I also have and love my original 3530 Kenwood but it's > long out of production. > > The Icom IC-37a? is/was a very popular radio in its day... but had > reports of the PA Module failing in more than a few cases. If > you can find a used radio, simply throttle the power back and/or > run it on the low power setting. Nice compact size radio... > > The QST Magazine review was pretty good... in addition to the normal > ham band operation... one or two of the radios also provided a measure > of receive (only) frequency coverage well past the ham bands. One > radio model even included an AM detector, which I thought was pretty > neat. Just add a bfo and notch filter and you could listen into > SSB & ACSB trunking traffic (if there's any left out there...). There > might even be some special AM Aircraft traffic available well above > 224 MHz if the receiver will program more like a wide band scanner. > > cheers, > skipp > > > > > Jed Barton wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > Any good radios to use for 220 linking? I know Alinco makes > > > the DR235, but the PL decoder stinks on it. > > > > http://www.irlpcables.com/AlincoTS64.html > > > > > Anything from tait or anything else to suggest? > > > I need a few of these. > > >
