Well, I finally got around to taking my new radio for a test drive. (Slowmover, you were right about a realistic time table) – All I’ve done so far is to throw the radio on the front seat with an electrical connection to the 12 volt outlet along with the magnetic mount on the cab roof for the antenna.
I was expecting the worst regarding electrical noise, but oddly enough I don’t hear any alternator whine or fuel pump chatter, just a staticky background noise which I think is normal. Sounds the same with or with-out the engine running.
I didn’t find any ham traffic within the allocated technician frequencies so no signal reports. For that matter, I did briefly cruise the local interstate highway (I-495) hoping to hear some traffic while monitoring 27.185 MHz. Only faintly heard some loud mouth a couple of states away so I guess I am receiving.
I noticed that when I transmitted (on the ham band!) the radio displayed some kind of cryptic message (Maybe “5WRHI” – see attached photo.)
Can anybody tell me what that means?
I am totally clueless and the instruction manual isn’t much help….
If there is interest, More updates to follow, as they slowly happen.
Thanks,
John
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