2820

Yaesu vs Icom is like Nikon vs Canon. Susah to argue, each got its own pro and con.

2820vs2720 = presentation and display the 2820 wins with no sweat. Function wise, almost identical. Toy with both and the only thing I dont like about 2820 is the magnetically only mounted face.

Get them online. Lots of sellers around and trusted. So far I have not got any fraud dealings with any of them.

Yupp Malaysian ones. They are basically hobbyist but do sell Radios to new hobbyist. Their prices are really good and more importantly trustworthy.

Their reputation at stake here as amateur radio "gang" are very small.

Wiraone cool down bro heheheh... There are always some self proclaimed policemen trolling on this forum. I love the RM6 per piece DVD sold rampantly near SS2 police station too. When they clean these up then we can talk about amateur radio enforcement.

I think only a handful of forumers here know my callsign

Bought a F23H at MARES flea market today.

Yes you can monitor Police Freq at certain time when they are using their old sets. Their newer Motorola the police using enryption and all you hear are static. Police Freq 170.025 if you willing to scan.

Where are you now?

Alamak wiraone, I got that TH-F7E too but I can't hear anything on SSB. You plug in a super long dipole?

The TH-F7E is not mine .. so, I haven't test it out .. it is my daughter's Anyway, to monitor on SSB .. yes, you could either have a dipole .. or may be just a long wire. Have a long wire (those thick earth/grounding wire will do) .. length, depends .. you can have ether quarter or half wave-length.. so, if you're interested on 40m, you could have a 10m long wire up on the air ... spare few meters to connect it to your HT as a feed line. Now, since your HT has SMA connector, you may want to have PL259 to SMA.. just push in the wire into the middle/core of the PL259 connector and tune to 3.50MHz upward for 40M band, remember to set the mode to LSB.. if you could hear those Indonesian talking to each others.. then you're good

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haha thats true. My big 3 ele HF yagi is at home meantime working in KL for the past 1/2 year didnt get to use any HF. I though with a long wire I could receive with the kenwood too. Unfortunately got nothing so far except when someone in KL area beams out.

Psst, do it my way. Put it up quietly at 6-7am sunday morning. Once its up like 20-30ft away from your roof, optically it will not look like its hanging over your neighbours.

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Added on February 18, 2009, 8:37 amYou might want to think into a proper base antenna like the reasonably priced F23. About RM400. How much is the V24? I don't really like mobile antenna setup for home base, mobile antenna cannot stand too long in our super hot sun and rain.

This post has been edited by santacruzer: Feb 18 2009, 08:37 AM

CrazyGhost stop going McD for a month and the extra RM80 will get you a nice F23 antenna. The diamond F23 or fondly known as the fokker is about RM380 locally. This comes with a nicely designed groundplane. Will beat any mobile setup.

6m and 10m on FM good for pirates cos nobody monitors that area and if you are talking about mobile, then antenna in this area also limited.

8800 = separated memory oppose to shared memory on 8890

Try not to venture into the UHF freq like the 477.xxx
The cost of setting up a UHF base station is horrible. Cabling have to be top notch and short. Stick to nice VHF heheh

Lots of malaysian website selling VX6 but I seriously do not know what is a "ap de"

For VX7, you have to do the reset till you get the Vertex boot up screen.

If you get the yaesu screen, do another reset and you will get the vertex. Good luck.

You sure its only RM650 now? Anyway my 2200H comes with the UT118.
I already got 2 spares including a heavily abused V8000 set in my car's tool box.

O btw, its not really practical to try tuning into HF signal in a car hehehe. For those familiar with HF, there are no set memory or scanning per se. You would probably kill many other road users with manual rotating the biggie knob. Lets not even go into HF antenna for car.



This post has been edited by santacruzer: Jun 4 2009, 09:31 AM