To fix a Terra radio nearest trash can. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 7:40 AM Subject: Re: KR> handheld radio
> Paul wrote: > >>I plan to fly with a handheld ICOM. I also plan to boost the output with a >>linear amp - has anyone else gone this way?? (For those not in the know , >>a >>linear amp boost the output signal from 3 watts to 10 watts for range) > > Jim Hill did it that way for years. He says he could "talk forever". He > even mounted his in the panel, with controls easily accessible. It worked > for him, but I'll ask him for details. I think he still has the amp. > > Right now my Terra TX-760D is screwed up, so I'm going to have to use my > ICOM on the way to SNF. The Terra sounds great in the headphones, but > somewhere on the way to the antenna, it breaks up into unintelligible. I > had a guy tell me the other day that I had the "crappiest radio I've ever > heard". That hurts! I've discovered this is a common problem with the > Terra (fine one day, garbled the next), and have a lead on a British guy > that knows how to fix it... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
