AI6VX
Member
New FTM-7250DR user here! Just received it today, and loaded it up with local repeater freqs. Going to install it in my truck this weekend after I get my NMO mount stuff, but for now have it in the house, connected to my Tram 1480 base antenna.
Question for the group - is it normal to need a high squelch for VHF with this radio? UHF is stone quiet, but all my 2M channels show 4-5 bars of noise. Powering it from an Astron 35A linear so it's not from that. I don't have this noise on my other radios. I literally just swapped it out and plugged in my Kenwood TM-281A, then my Anytone 778UV, and both those radios go quiet with squelch setting of 1. Same antenna, coax, power supply, position in my shack. This FTM-7250DR, I have to use 9 out of 15. Seems excessive.
Is this normal for this model?
Dave
Question for the group - is it normal to need a high squelch for VHF with this radio? UHF is stone quiet, but all my 2M channels show 4-5 bars of noise. Powering it from an Astron 35A linear so it's not from that. I don't have this noise on my other radios. I literally just swapped it out and plugged in my Kenwood TM-281A, then my Anytone 778UV, and both those radios go quiet with squelch setting of 1. Same antenna, coax, power supply, position in my shack. This FTM-7250DR, I have to use 9 out of 15. Seems excessive.
Is this normal for this model?
Dave