niceguy71
Active Member
I've done better ( or worse)Try, inadvertently switched bands, you want real fun. One which is a deserted planet on AM, LSB, and USB.
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I was looking for a clear channel for my handheld testing and found channel 40 was usually S1 or S2 when all the other stations were S3 or higher..... I noticed it for a few weeks and was amazed no one seems to use channel 40!!!
I was quite happy. so I was testing my handheld on 40 and it didn't work???? every channel on my handheld worked great... all but 40... I figured I got an e-bay dud..... so I tried some other handhelds and found my 5555 N II would not receive on channel 40.... I was going to write if anyone on here had that problem when I looked at the frequency... it was way off.... I had tried to turn the channel when it was on frequency... but turning the knob when frequency is displayed only changes the frequency... and switching the radio on/off or going back to channel instead of frequency doesn't fix it... I had to go to frequency then tune channel 40 to 27.405 then switch back to channel and now it's back to normal... sadly the signal strength is the same as most of the other channels.