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May I ask, can the internal power supply do 220~250 volt? Maybe a switch on the supply it self for that? Can you look?

It has the same teardrop style mic as the Galaxy 2547 and 959, or Texas Ranger radios. But this time it has some more weight to it, like they added some tire weights. I like the heavier feel. It sounds good.

It’s small compared to all the other ranger bases with the handles but it has the same board is the 69 base plus

Could you use it to push a straight 6 pill Base amp?​@@DX-Rev

The new RCI-29 is the EPT-990015Z. It’s stable. It just sucks you can’t slide 5KC to actually use it on 10m. It only slides about 600-700Hz. If you had the coarse fine control like the 69 Base Plus it would be a lot better.

It only slides about 1 to 1.2KC unfortunately. Later on I’ll see about modifying the clarifier for a different pot or a dual pot like the 69FFB radios.

The 2547 when it came out was $299 or so. Now it’s around $500. This new one will be around $600 depending on retailer. But for what you get out of the box, 100w or so, 6 bands, echo, stable surface mount board… it’s definitely an upgrade over the 2547 for stability and functionality. But I think they’re all overpriced these days. The Chinese brands like AnyTone and Stryker still run circles around them out of the box and only cost $200-350 usually. But I do like it.

@@DX-Rev well it only has 2 bands 10meter and 11 meter the switch is labeled wrong like most. Hope it gives you many years of good use.

I have it switched to a dummy load, the RF gain half down and the volume barely open, then an older Motorola communications speaker way off to the side plugged into it

@@DX-Rev ah ha! fantastic! Thank you!!

Around the $600 mark

@@DX-Rev ok, that isn't a low price 🙈 ty for your answer.

@@13_TH_559 it’s the same as the RCI 69 Base Plus in a smaller box. Priced the same way.

$600ish. They’ll be out to the retailers soon. Walcott already has them. Anderson and some others are taking preorders.

So far I see Anderson selling them for $569, Walcott for $599, seen one or two on eBay for an exorbitant $699. Inside it’s the same as the 69 Base Plus, minus the hi low switch for the bands. So it’s about the same price.

After discovering it is indeed the EPT990015Z board like the N1 and 69FFB series, you don’t need the chip. Just move a jumper on J27! Good news all around!

You’re right. But before I bought the radio I didn’t know what board it would have or how it would be. But some radios without continuous coverage do take an e-chip like the mirage MX-36Hp. This one is just the simple jumper block. There may be a way to make it 12 bands with a mod like adding a hi low switch somewhere. But it’ll be useless for 10m phone because the clarifier only goes up and down about 1.5KC. Haven’t figured a mod for that yet.

@@DX-Rev OH ! With only less than 2 KC movement on the clarifier and no other vfo function that would be a problem on 10 m. It would be impossible to get to 28.400 for example

@@DX-Rev The ultimate mod for that radio would be a way to select and change ANY digit on the display ! Like my 2950 or my 2985. It is kind of disappointing that Ranger made this radio the way they did. But then again it is really manufactured and marketed for the CB world

Oh, Let me guess? you're a ham operator and you look down on the 11m people?

This is coming from a guy that started and still uses CB. I’ve been a CBer since 8yrs and a ham since I was 14. I love them both! But this nonsense and old design in a new box. Few new circuits but nothing different than from the few clones out there. Revamped 148 grant and galaxy from an old French export company called Dirland. Some mistake connex for them. New wrappers same stuff inside. They made the move to SMT. It’s still the same circuits. Now, some of the engineers got together and decided to improve the old 3600-9900 chassis over the years and made the EPT9900. It’s better but still the same thing with a few mods to the vco for stability, new mosfet finals and SMT components. The Stryker 955 is a great example and rig for this! More illegal crap and ya need 80w to talk across town. I could say the same thing about a ham that just gets his technician license and has a 2 m 70cm walkie-talkie and expects to talk across town but has to use the repeater to do it and not simplex. The organized qrm -ming with the contests and just wanting to say everyone’s a 59. They just gang up on a single call and say nothing substantial. They said that you made a contact. You didn’t establish anything and didn’t ask about how the weather was. You know, like, what did you have to eat. The equipment, nothing about the equipment or the radio system! Any info about it? Then it’s just a bogus signal report and to the next station! I don’t look down on them. I just wish they’d do something more productive for themselves and the hobby. Instead of a who can walk on who and make the most sound effects or sound board contest! It goes on, on hf ham radio too. Unlicensed or non identifiable operators that don’t give their call sign and like to do the same thing on the hf bands. I talked 70miles Columbus Ohio to Athens Ohio with a TRC-221 4watt cb walkie-talkie loaded with a fresh set of Ni-Mh batteries fully charged up with a Astatic D104M6B mic an antenna adapter for that rca jack on the side and a 102” whip antenna on a bike. I was at the intersection of Hamilton and main st! I talked for better than 10 minutes to a mobile station parked on old peach ridge. He had a old 11m, I mean 10m, export Galaxy Jupiter (not the Pluto but same inside) A Texas star 350 killer bee and a Francis amazer 96” antenna. All this on a 74 ford pinto! Yeah he was illegal and I could hear him well with the amp off! Yeah it’s still a 25w radio and we’re 75miles apart. He was no s-9 or was I. But both were above the noise floor of S-2-3 and I’d guess he was a solid S5 and myself to him a S3 to 4. I do admit it’s fun to have it on! Yeah I used to walk on my buddies and then get them a bigger amp. Then we all had them and couldn’t use them until we all got on the same channel to talk. But I soon found out. When the band isn’t open, even with an amp (DNA warrior all tubes wired in parallel! Must hit it with driver of at least 50w to get it to key up! , I used a maverick to drive) 2300-2500w peak and an antenna SPT-500 up 75ft. Still could only talk 75 - 100miles. Then I got a Yaesu ft-101e a heard 75-40m ssb. It never closed the propagation was always there. Some days (years) better than others. Propagation is great on 11m and it can be done easily with good practice, equipment and antenna. The antenna is 90% of the station! Why break the rules? Just study and take a test? Wanna run 1500w legally? Go up 200ft at the base of the antenna and have that much tower under your antenna legally? Talk on a hf band with propagation all the time, not seasonally. Yes the other bands come and go. But 40m is always open for 800-2000mile contacts. You could string a wire dipole and cast all your RF to the sky. (Because your antenna isn’t at least a 1/2 wavelength above ground for polarization purposes.) Talk a few hundred miles with that 100w hf rig. A vertical will put all that at the horizon for that dx work. It doesn’t take allot of gear. Just a well designed and efficient antenna system and good practice. Hf is great regardless of the band!

@@MrBonez208 Old technology is almost always better than the newer trash. I recently bought an AM only GE CB NIB on eBay, made in 1977. Says made in Japan on it. It works way better than a new Cobra 29 AM made in the Peoples Republic (China) I got my amateur technician license in 1987, but had to wait till they got rid of the code before I could get the general. When I got it I immediately went out and got myself a brand new HF radio. And sold it a few months later. Seems like all anybody wants to do on the amateur HF bands is make contacts. As many as possible as quickly as possible. No actual QSOs. Plus you have a ton of rules to follow, and tell the whole world who and where you are, right down to your residential address. I use 11 meter SSB with 100 watts and a decent antenna way up there. WAY more fun. Amateur radio has become a joke. It's all about computers now. Everybody has an SDR digital radio. No thanks. No longer anything amateur about it. It's plug and play. Go buy a bunch of expensive equipment, connect it together, and start talking. Just like commercial radio. Amateurs used to build their own radios. None of them even know how the new computerized radios work. They can't fix them. They have to send them back to the factory, and even they can't fix them. They just put new boards in them.

I had it sent with 11m in it. It’s just a jumper block like the 69ffb2 or the n1

Yes. That’s why these are really categorized as export radios. In the US they’re only legal to use on 28-29.699 for a general class or higher. I’m going to figure out how to put a hi low channel switch on it so I can use it on 28.300-500 as soon as I figure out how to make the clarifier shift more than 1.5KC. I usually hang around 28.420

@@DX-Rev good for you🍻👍

@@DX-Rev Let me know about that. That's the only thing keeping me from buying it. I figured the clarifier has to move it a minimum of six KHz both directions. Or maybe at the very very minimum five khz

Do you know the meaning of "Export"? Do you know KZfaq is worldwide?... Just so you know, FCC has no jurisdiction outside the USA.

You know bigbone88, who gives a rats butt. As long as it's clean and not a splattering mess...Who cares!

They’re all overpriced these days. The 2547 was $299 when it came out and now it’s $500. Just stock radio. I can’t figure why ranger doesn’t just make a real radio out of the 2995. I had one of mine on 21-29.699 and it works fine on 15 meters after a tune. A lot of CBers don’t want a low level AM radio like the icom 7300. They mostly care about AM. Would be nice to have a ranger that works on 80m AM so the FT-101s can be retired. All the Icom, Yaesu, kenwood radios currently in production suck on AM. Personally I’m a 10m and 20/40m SSB guy. But I like to dwell on channel 3 AM with my local buddies I’ve been talking to for 30 years that’ll never get the ham ticket.

Actually made in Malaysia, but still junky

@@DCDura Greetings: Yep

Everybody has their own opinion no matter how wrong it may be

@@Radionut Greetings: Indeed. Other than made in Malaysia, explain how it is wrong..

Don't matter where it made but the fact it has twisting issues in transport just like 2547s

Yep, the AT5555 is a quality bit of kit for very little money, bought mine new for only £200 in the UK.

Super impressed with the receive on the AT555N2 @@georgebarnes8163