Eburris12
Member
Hello. I found an old Kenwood Communications Reciever R-1000 in a friends shed. This belonged to her grandfather who was a ham. I plugged it in and attached my trucks' mag mount antenna to it. Its a radioshack mobile cb antenna but it fit the radios connection.
I tuned the radio to 27.135mhz (CB channel 15)
In my area, channel 15 is always active. And before I plugged in the Kenwood I was picking up transmissions with my Uniden CB on that channel, so I know it was active.
I played around with everything, switching from AM wide to narrow band, turned off the RF ATT. switch and even downloaded the manual from the internet.
(http://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/r1000_manual.pdf)
I could not get anything on the reciever. Just alot of static. Maybe I'm using the wrong antenna? Anyway, this is the first time I have operated a radio other than my CB. I am not Ham liscenced (yet) so I will not be transmitting, just listening.
I would appreciate some pointers to get this thing working. I want to get my liscence and play with this radio before I scape together the money to buy a new one.
Thanks
I tuned the radio to 27.135mhz (CB channel 15)
In my area, channel 15 is always active. And before I plugged in the Kenwood I was picking up transmissions with my Uniden CB on that channel, so I know it was active.
I played around with everything, switching from AM wide to narrow band, turned off the RF ATT. switch and even downloaded the manual from the internet.
(http://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/r1000_manual.pdf)
I could not get anything on the reciever. Just alot of static. Maybe I'm using the wrong antenna? Anyway, this is the first time I have operated a radio other than my CB. I am not Ham liscenced (yet) so I will not be transmitting, just listening.
I would appreciate some pointers to get this thing working. I want to get my liscence and play with this radio before I scape together the money to buy a new one.
Thanks
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