The sound quality is pretty good on receive and I've had positive feedback from others on transmit. “I've had one for a little over a month now and have nothing but good things to say about it. I obviously don't get the distance I did using a base antenna, but still works really well.” I wound up buying a base station and installed the 8900 in my truck and it works great there too. From MD, I made contacts all over the US and Canada. As far as SSB, it's was great when I used it as a base. “You’re going to really enjoy it, especially if you like playing with different settings and displays. I get good reports from both local and DX contacts and I just plain have fun using it.”

Some say the receive is noisy, but I have no problem with it.

I've used it in both base and mobile applications and most recently in experimenting with my dipole as a base station. To keep this simple, I just copied and pasted comments that I have given to other members that have asked about it and added a little extra afterwards. IF you have any doubts about this radio or questions, feel free to get ahold of me, alos Vetdan knows that ins and outs of this baby real well, he was super helpful with questions I had. Also a neat feature is the SWR protection, it will shut you down if it is too high, and also has voltage gauge, that will shut you down if you have too much or too little power. Running this with a Wilson 1000 right now and built in SWR says a solid 1.0. Best option to me is the ability to tie the clarifier from the front of the radio, you can easily set it to do what you want! Don't get crazy with your mic gain on this, I have mine set a 5 and reports tell me it sounds the best right there, for me anyways. Menu adjustments are easily done with the help of the guide in the owners manual. Stock out of box power seems to be efficient, this radio will talk! Lots of cool gadgets on it, most of them are very useful. Other than those things that I can live with, this radio is a true performer! I have had excellent audio reports, both local and a distance away. Out of the box this thing workes great, been using it for a few days now and the only problem is noise rejection, it will pick up alot of noise in town amongst buildings and it does not have very good rejection for bleedover when somebody is on a channel close to you near the one your on. After back and forth email with Vetdan, I decided to purchase this radio, having very bad luck with a Galaxy, I wanted something more stable.

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