[Standard] C5900A comments

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:38:58 -0700

I purchased a C5900A when they first came out.  Used all three bands, as
well as the extended receive capability for aircraft, 800 meg.  Even 220 meg
but the sensitivity is not that hot.

About 2 years ago, I lost the ability to transmit on 2m.  It was
intermittent.  I opened the radio and found that the problem was with the
6m/2m VCO.  I tried removing it and opening it up, but it is too small and
packed with SMD's.  I think I screwed up a trace on the board in doing so
and made the problem worse.

I friend picked up a C5900A at Dayton about 3 years ago, along with a
tri-band antenna for $500.  It was working and in good shape.  He never used
it and sold it to me when I discovered I could not resurrect my unit.  Just
recently, I am having the same issue as my original unit, but now it is on
the 6m side.  It's too bad I cannot salvage parts from the two radios to
make one fully operational unit.  But because the 2m and 6m VCO's are
combined in the same small sub-assembly, I think I am out of luck.

To answer your question about cross-banding.... I played with this once a
while back but never used it after that.  I don't know if you can change the
freq while in cross-band.  I believe you can by using DTMF but not sure.  I
would try it if I had one of the radios plugged in.  But now I am using a
Yaesu 8900R.

Mark McClain, N6OBY
Redmond, WA

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John Geiger
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Standard] C5900A comments

I am looking at getting a C5900A triband radio, and
wonder what comments owners of this radio have.  How
have you liked it so far?  I am mainly looking to use
it in crossband repeater mode, with 440mhz in and 50
or 144 mhz out.  Does it do a good job crossbanding?
I am also impressed that you can change frequencies on
it remotely using a DTMF pad.  Can you do this while
in crossband repeat?  And can you use it to change
between memories instead of just frequency input?

Any comments would be appreciated.  Looks like a nice
radio.  Is $325 a good deal for one?

73s John NE0P

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