My “replacement” HTX-202 2m HT finally arrived, as well as my Standard C528a 2m\/70cm. I was a bit disappointed so far in the C528a’s ability to pick up various repeater traffic in the area, but the ‘202 is working well. I haven’t transmitted with it yet as I’d like to check the tuning, etc., but it’s in great condition. My old one is rough and needed an antenna, so I was very happy when I found a better one for a good price. I was able to pick up the Richmond repeater tonight; one side of the conversation was very strong while the other side was clear but not very loud.<\/p>\n
The Standard C528a was cheap as someone had taken it as part of a series of trades on another item. They didn’t need or want it as they have several Icom HTs. After opening it up, I found someone had re-capped portions of it but did a poor job of it. I’ll probably order a cap kit from eBay at some point as I think that will improve its performance. Also need a CTCSS module as it appears that the Standard won’t be able to do more than receive repeater traffic. That, or I’ll just sell it and buy an HTX-404 to supplement the ‘202.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My “replacement” HTX-202 2m HT finally arrived, as well as my Standard C528a 2m\/70cm. I was a bit disappointed so far in the C528a’s ability to pick up various repeater traffic in the area, but the ‘202 is working well. I haven’t transmitted with it yet as I’d like to check the tuning, etc., but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marstella.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}