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Old 03-27-2013, 09:09 PM   #22
SoCalRVer
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Last night I tried my hand at the teflon silver PL259 and soldered . Got a bad match and gave up. Today, I went to Radio Shack and bought a screw on
PL259. Followed the directions and crimped the end. Got the lowest match of 1.1:1 and my transmitting power is back to 55 watts.
One thing I've noticed is that sometimes when listening, I would see signal strength when I turned down the squelch and sometimes not. The noise is the same. Should there be signal strength showing on the radio's meter all the time? When someone transmits, the strength meter shows the appropriate level.
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