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Post by rhromm on Sept 15, 2011 22:06:51 GMT -5
How does one amplify or tune a VHF?
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Post by popcorn501 on Sept 17, 2011 6:10:12 GMT -5
Why would you want to? They are supose to talk all over the place by themselves.
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Post by northfladoghunter on Sept 17, 2011 15:52:31 GMT -5
I know some people who do a test on them and tune em. I dont but ours usually talk 10 - 15 miles depends terrain and weather a lot. Some radios do a lil less and the 50 and 75 watts can talk a long ways. I have a uniden solaro 25 watt and it does good.
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Post by rhromm on Sept 17, 2011 21:40:55 GMT -5
Why would you want to? They are supose to talk all over the place by themselves. Want to learn how to work on radios, and I thought it would be a good project. |
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Post by popcorn501 on Sept 18, 2011 14:28:39 GMT -5
That is a dyeing art there. I found an old tech to teach me on cb radios back in the day. Never learned all I needed to stuff happened and I never finished wish now I would have.
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Post by bryant1 on Sept 19, 2011 15:20:23 GMT -5
Why would you want to? They are supose to talk all over the place by themselves. Want to learn how to work on radios, and I thought it would be a good project. Get you an output meter and 'build' an adjustable (sliding) antenna. They have one at our local radio shack they use. Then hook up everything up and adjust your antenna while keying up, it's a pretty simple process actually. |
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Post by brandon52 on Sept 19, 2011 19:50:01 GMT -5
can you go to school to learn?
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Post by popcorn501 on Sept 20, 2011 11:43:07 GMT -5
I've never heard of any school just for working on radios. If you go to school for working on electronics that would work with a little understanding of how a radio works.
Bryant I'm not sure about a VHF radio but a cb should be basically the same other than transmitting on a differant frequency and having a little more output power but adjusting the antenna does nothing but set your swr not tune the radio.
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Post by rhromm on Sept 20, 2011 21:26:42 GMT -5
That is what I understand popcorn. I have an understanding of electricity from college physics classes. I just would like to know how to tweak them. The skill does not serve much purpose, but it sure interests me.
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Post by popcorn501 on Sept 21, 2011 4:11:43 GMT -5
Not sure about the VHF radios but there are service manuals out there for cb radios that show the proper way to tune them with the right equipment. I'm sure you can find them if ya look.
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Post by bryant1 on Sept 27, 2011 13:11:23 GMT -5
I've never heard of any school just for working on radios. If you go to school for working on electronics that would work with a little understanding of how a radio works. Bryant I'm not sure about a VHF radio but a cb should be basically the same other than transmitting on a differant frequency and having a little more output power but adjusting the antenna does nothing but set your swr not tune the radio. haha well they found a sucker here to make some money off off ;D |
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Post by popcorn501 on Sept 29, 2011 4:33:04 GMT -5
Lmao!! Yeah well if ya don't know you don't know.
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Post by northfladoghunter on Sept 29, 2011 21:12:25 GMT -5
We just installed some in our tractors with a magnetic antenna and it is talking up to 20 miles. I aint sure if it is because the antennas is on top of the tractors and are so high or wat. It honestly surprises me with them cheap antennas how good they talk.
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Post by bryant1 on Oct 4, 2011 10:34:36 GMT -5
We just installed some in our tractors with a magnetic antenna and it is talking up to 20 miles. I aint sure if it is because the antennas is on top of the tractors and are so high or wat. It honestly surprises me with them cheap antennas how good they talk. Wow, what's the watts on the output? |
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Post by northfladoghunter on Oct 14, 2011 19:29:08 GMT -5
They are just 25 watt uniden solaras. In the next month or so we will have the 75 watt icoms tho cuz the boss and his son have got hooked on them.
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